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- San Francisco Chronicle
Grimes calls Elon Musk's X ‘a prison' while slamming social media: 'The entire thing is a theatre'
Electronic pop singer Grimes slammed social media platform X, owned by her ex Elon Musk, for its toxicity amid attempts to distance herself from the internet.
The 'Oblivion' singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, recently broke her months-long social media hiatus to note she still feels the negativity of these platforms since briefly logging back on.
"Returning here it is overwhelmingly, abundantly and profoundly clear that this place —and all of these places — are a poison — a prison of utterly short form deep deep-sounding nonsense attached to no one that ur brain will discard imaging its learning," she wrote on Monday, July 7. "The entire thing is a theatre. A s— pale simulacra of a life."
The post has amassed 650,900 views and 8,700 likes since it was shared on Monday morning.
It's unclear when Grimes began disengaging with social media, but she shared a similar post in April announcing she has 'been way more offline lately,' because social media 'feels like a ghost town of depression.'
Meanwhile, she has remained creatively active, diverting her attention to making new music.
Though Grimes dropped her recent single, 'idgaf,' in February, and performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Southern California last year, the singer hasn't released a full album since 2020. But she assured fans in the comment section of her Monday X post that she is 'working very very hard' on her next release.
Grimes also revealed Monday that she has been working on music for English DJ and producer Sub Focus, who she previously collaborated with for the unreleased track 'Synchronize.'
'It rly feels like cinematic, like I'm right in Neuromancer,' she said on X, referencing the 1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson. 'It has been so long since I've felt euphoric about dance music that I'm actually disturbed at how disembodied and status oriented music can become.'
Grimes and Musk dated for roughly four years and made their red carpet debut as a couple in 2018. They have three children together.
Though they officially split in 2022, the singer has frequently used Musk's X to criticize social media and denounce his actions and political views.
Earlier this year, she condemned the Tesla CEO for bringing their son X Æ A-Xii, known as Lil X, to the Oval Office for an executive event with President Donald Trump in February.
'He should not be in public like this,' Grimes wrote of their son, who was 4 years old at the time, on X, responding to a user who praised Lil X's manners at the event. 'I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I'm glad he was polite. Sigh.'
A month earlier, she spoke out on the platform about the viral gesture that Musk made during Trump's inauguration, which many believed resembled a Nazi salute.
