Grimes Responds to Backlash Over Ex Elon Musk's On Stage Gesture, Denounces Alt-Right
Grimes was asked to address the backlash her ex Elon Musk has been receiving online for the salute he did on stage during Inauguration Day.
The singer, who shares son X Æ A-Xii, 4, daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, 3, and son Techno Mechanicus, 2, with the richest man in the world, split from him in 2022.
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First, she responded to a follower on X who was not pleased she had not already made a statement.
Here’s everything she initially said…
“While I deeply respect your concern [that I haven't spoken out yet] – it is unhealthy that people are this upset when I have not even been online yet today and am only just learning about this controversy now. I don’t know what happened and I will not make a rash statement – I am not a citizen of this country.
I need to go to bed now, I will research the state of affairs tomorrow but until I do I’m not going to say something that will create an international scandal.
It’s absurd that someone can be this cancelled for something their ex did before they even heard it happened.
I am not him. I will not make a statement every time he does something. I can only send love back into a world that is hurting.
I know your concern comes from a good place. I respect you. I do not ask for sympathy. In a world over stimulated by scandal, I feel a moral imperative to only add to the mess when something positive can be done. Otherwise I’m just adding to the desensitization.
To be clear i could go talk s-t and be on a bunch of magazine covers and be a feminist hero and get clout – but it would serve no purpose. I choose my children’s wellbeing. I promise you it doesn’t feel good to be hated all the time for things I don’t even know about, cannot predict and cannot control. But I also chose this path, I accept it. I make the best of it, and I simply wish happiness and health to all. Godspeed.”
Another user then asked Grimes to “denounce all the all-right.”
She responded, “I’m happy to denounce Nazi-ism – and the far alt right. Would that help clear things up? I’ve just gotten out of breakfast and have to catch a flight, and am still debating how to approach things diplomatically because I feel in over my head. But if there’s concern about that, I am happy to set the record strait in a meaningful way.”