Grimes is opening up about family life with Elon Musk.
In a new interview, the 35-year-old “Genesis” singer shared some rare comments about her son X Æ A-12, 3, and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, 19 months, revealing that they’re already following in their father’s footsteps.
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“X knows a lot about rockets,” Grimes shared with WIRED. “It’s crazy. He knows more about rockets than me.”
“We had to stop giving him toys, because if they’re not anatomically correct, he gets upset,” Grimes added. “He’s a little engineer, for sure. But his obsession with space is bordering on, ‘Is this healthy?’”
Grimes went on to say that X was really impacted by the explosion of Starship, the rocket the 52-year-old tech mogul’s spacecraft company SpaceX launched in April.
“When X saw Starship blow up, he had, like, a three-day PTSD meltdown,” Grimes recalled. “Every hour, he was waking up and going, ‘Starship …’ and I had to rub his back.”
As for her Exa Dark Sideræl – whose nickname is Y – Grimes said that she’s also showing interest in engineering.
“Yeah, she’s a little engineer too,” Grimes said. “She likes industrial shipping. She’s very strange.”
Grimes acknowledged that being Elon‘s kids might come with a “pretty intense” life, but she’s dedicated to giving X and Y a creative environment to grow up in.
“Being Elon’s kid is not the same as being anyone’s kid,” Grimes noted. “In my house, at least, I want it to be more of a crazy warehouse situation and a cool art space.”
Grimes also said that being a mom has made her “a lot more optimistic.”
“I was not super focused before. It was just, what sounds cool, what feels cool,” Grimes explained. “Now I feel a social responsibility with my art—to make future-optimistic art. Not a lot of people are doing that. People have a very dire vision of the future, because it’s easy and fun to write about cyberpunk dystopias. So seeing my kids makes me pathologically optimistic. It’s a life mission.”
Also in her interview, Grimes addressed Elon‘s cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg, moving to Mars, and so much more. Find out what she shared here.