Okay, I’ll be sincere: earlier than writing this text I didn’t know a lot about Grimes past the truth that she was courting Tesla founder Elon Musk (form of; it seems to be like they’re damaged up now). That alone makes her price listening to, as a result of if, like Musk, you’re price a whole lot of billions of {dollars}, just about everybody in your orbit turns into vital by proxy.
I’ve since discovered that Grimes is a musician and pop star who’s been working for over a decade. She and Musk have two youngsters collectively: X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. (They’re a boy and a woman respectively, if the names didn’t make it apparent.) She’s additionally a giant sci-fi fan and even confirmed up at the newest Met Gala in a glance impressed by the Fremen from Frank Herbert’s Dune:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 13: Grimes attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/MG21/Getty Images)
Apparently Grimes is a giant fan of Dune, as she detailed in a brand new interview with Vanity Fair. She even wished a crack at directing a film model of it, one with “the more problematic colonialist elements scrubbed out.” Instead, Denis Villeneuve obtained to do it, and Grimes was first in line to see the completed product.
“I was just crying my eyes out the whole movie,” Grimes stated, saying that she was notably moved as a result of lead character Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) reminded her of her son X. “I just know X is going to have to go through all this really fucked-up shit that sort of mirrors Paul-type stuff.”
Grimes: “There are things that are deeply not woke in the Dune universe.”
And then, after the film got here out, Grimes partnered with Warner Bros. to advertise the movie to her massive social media following. “I was basically an influencer,” she stated. But the studio reduce ties together with her after she posed whereas studying a duplicate of The Communist Manifesto, which apparently was an try to troll Musk. (I’m saying “apparently” loads as a result of I’m simply taking it on religion that there’s a logic to those occasions I can’t fairly get my head round.)
Anyway, Grimes says the studio break up together with her out of an abundance of warning lest individuals be outraged about a number of the extra controversial material in Frank Herbert’s e-book. “There are things that are deeply not woke in the Dune universe.”
I don’t know what we discovered from this story, nevertheless it definitely was bizarre. Dune: Part II is scheduled to come back out on October 20, 2023.
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