--- title: "Grimes Says She’s Being Harassed After Elon Musk Breakup" description: "Grimes has had a rough time after breaking up with Elon Musk, writing a song about \"all the privacy invasion, bad press, online hate and harassment.\"" date: "2021-09-30" modified: "2021-09-30" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-harassed-elon-musk-breakup" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "grimes" - "the digest" --- # Grimes Says She’s Being Harassed After Elon Musk Breakup ![Grimes has had a rough time after breaking up with Elon Musk, writing a song about "all the privacy invasion, bad press, online hate and harassment."]() *\Image: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Roc Nation\* ## Hate and Harassment Claire "Grimes" Boucher has had a rough time after [breaking up with Elon Musk]() last week. "I wrote and produced this song this week in response to all the privacy invasion, bad press, online hate and harassment by paparazzis I’ve experienced this week," Grimes wrote in the caption of a new song [she posted to Instagram today](). https://www.instagram.com/p/CUcoJxwJUTy/ ## Sad Song It's a rare look at her struggles with constantly being the limelight — especially ever since [revealing her relationship]() with Musk in 2018, which catapulted her from a well-received indie musician to a tabloid fixture. The lyrics of the new song called "Love" are a somber reflection of Grimes' current inner state. "It fucking sucks to be awake," Grimes sings. "Oh Lord I pray my soul to take, nobody understands, because everything they hate is everything I love." ## Post Musk At least it sounds like her breakup with the billionaire CEO was amicable. "We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms," Musk told [celebrity gossip magazine *Page Six*]() last week. It was a highly publicized piece of news that clearly has led to a lot of extra unwanted attention for Grimes. But the musician is [ready to turn a new page](). "I’ll be colonizing \[one of Jupiter’s moons\] Europa separately from Elon for the lesbian space commune," she [told *Page Six*]() in an email on Monday, likely a reference to her upcoming album, a ["space opera" about a lesbian AI being](). **READ MORE:** [Grimes Posts New Song “Love” in Response to “Privacy Invasion, Bad Press, Online Hate, and Harassment by Paparazzis”]() \[*Pitchfork*\] **More on Grimes:** *[After Splitting From Elon Musk, Grimes Says She’s Starting a “Lesbian Space Commune”]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()