--- title: "Elon Musk Has Been Making Sad Attempts to Woo Taylor Swift for Years, and She’s Never Responded a Single Time" description: "Elon Musk has had a longstanding crush on Taylor Swift, with his tweet suggesting he could impregnate her the latest in a long string." date: "2024-09-12" modified: "2024-09-12" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-taylor-swift-attention" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "sexism" - "taylor swift" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk Has Been Making Sad Attempts to Woo Taylor Swift for Years, and She’s Never Responded a Single Time ![Elon Musk has had a longstanding crush on Taylor Swift, with his tweet suggesting he could impregnate her the latest in a long string.]() *\Image: MediaPunch / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images / Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty / Futurism (edited) \* ## Pretty Please Elon Musk has apparently had a longstanding crush of sorts on Taylor Swift, with his [vile tweet]() suggesting he could impregnate her just the latest in a long string of embarrassing attempts to get her attention. As X-formerly-Twitter [user @esjesjes flagged](), Musk has repeatedly addressed the 34-year-old pop star on the site he now owns — and it doesn't appear that she has ever responded, or even, as the user joked, "publicly acknowledged he exists." Most of the posts, which seem to have started around 2022, give off the same vibes as thirsty randos commenting on models' Instagram photos. This might be sadder, however, because Musk is [among the richest men in the world](). Responding to an [April post](), for instance, about the [female billionaire]() becoming the first artist ever to occupy the top 14 spots of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, [Musk wrote]() with weird capitalization that although he isn't "quite the target audience," the feat was "nonetheless very Impressive indeed!" Late last September, meanwhile, he provided unsolicited and extremely self-serving [career advice](). "I recommend posting some music or concert videos directly on the X platform," [Musk replied](), again with no response from Swift. ## Sounds of Silence While none of those prior posts were anywhere near as egregious or direct as the multi-billionaire's threat to "give" Swift a baby following her [endorsement of Kamala Harris for president](), they show a clear pattern of desperation that he seems to have escalated. As Musk's estranged daughter [Vivian Jenna Wilson]() said in her own posts on [Instagram's Threads platform]() about Swift, her dad seems to be spewing increasingly violent right-wing rhetoric these days. "Yes, I saw 'the tweet,'" the 20-year-old, who in recent months has also been the [target of her father's transphobic vitriol](), wrote. "Heinous incel nonsense is in fact heinous incel nonsense. I don't really have anything to add to it, it's just abhorrent." "I would just like to say to my audience members, don't let people talk to you like that," Wilson continued. "It's disgusting, it's belittling and incredibly sexist. You deserve better." It's not exactly a secret that [Musk has issues with women](), but his own kid calling him out for being a gross "incel" adds some pretty compelling context to this apparent Swift fixation. **More on Elon's antics:** [*Elon Musk Makes Embarrassingly Stupid Claim: If Trump Loses, Humanity Will Never Make It to Mars*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()