---
title: "Grimes Defends Elon Musk on TikTok While Wielding Knife, Petting Robot Dog"
description: "Canadian musician Claire Elise Bouche (aka Grimes) posted a TikTok on Friday defending her partner Elon Musk while brandishing a knife."
date: "2021-08-21"
modified: "2021-08-21"
authors:
  - name: "Tony Ho Tran"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ttran"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-defends-elon-musk-tiktok"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "grimes"
  - "the digest"
  - "tiktok"
---

# Grimes Defends Elon Musk on TikTok While Wielding Knife, Petting Robot Dog

![Canadian musician Claire Elise Bouche (aka Grimes) posted a TikTok on Friday defending her partner Elon Musk while brandishing a knife.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/MOSHED-2021-8-21-7-36-5.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Grimes via TikTok/Tony Tran\</em\>*

## Grimes’ Gripe

Grimes wants you to know that she's got Elon’s back — and she'll make her point with a knife if she needs to.

Canadian musician [Claire Elise Bouche (aka Grimes) posted a TikTok](<https://www.tiktok.com/@grimes/video/6998591530990636293>) on Friday defending her partner Elon Musk. The video is fairly on brand for the pop star. Set to a remixed "Pretty Young Twerkulator" by City Girls, it features her sitting in a chair petting a robot dog as AI butterfly wings flap behind her.

"Stop harassing me on this app over fake news," Grimes said in the post’s caption. "I am not my bf’s spokesperson."

https://twitter.com/TonyHoWasHere/status/1429088707429142532

## You Call That a Knife?

Throughout the video, text pops on the screen boasting Musk’s accomplishments.

"Is he hot or is he out to destroy big oil," said one.

"Is he hot or will he put the first human on Mars," said another.

The text goes on about more specific Musk initiatives including a "$100 million prize for scalable ideas to remove CO2 from the earths \[sic\] atmosphere" and [developing batteries](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-tesla-battery-tech-two-years>) that don’t rely on unethically-sourced minerals. To punctuate her point, she pulls out a knife and gives viewers a smile at the end of the video.

## TikTok (In)Famous

This isn't Grimes' first time going viral on TikTok.

In June, she made a post on the social media platform where she claimed [AI provided "the fastest path to communism."](<https://futurism.com/grimes-ai-communism>) This post has made a lot of people angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

All in all, her most recent TikTok is a pretty on brand post for the "Delete Forever" singer. If nothing else, it's a fairly sweet defense of her baby's father and the person she loves (in spite of the knife brandishing).

**More on Grimes:** [*Grimes Says AI Will Usher in an Era of Luxurious Communism*](<https://futurism.com/grimes-ai-communism>)

## Author
Tony Tran is a former reporter for Futurism, and now an editor at the Daily Beast. His work has been seen in Playboy, HuffPost, Narratively, and wherever else fine writing is published. He lives in Chicago where he frequently plans tabletop gaming sessions for his friends.