---
title: "Grimes Says She’ll Move to Mars for “Manual Labor Until Death”"
description: "In a new YouTube video, Grimes stated that she'd be down to move to Mars, even if it means \"manual labor until death.\" Learn why."
date: "2021-02-01"
modified: "2021-02-12"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-mars-manual-labor-death"
categories:
  - "Astronomy"
  - "Mars"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "grimes"
  - "mars"
  - "the digest"
---

# Grimes Says She’ll Move to Mars for “Manual Labor Until Death”

![Claire "Grimes" Boucher said she'd be down to move to Mars "after age 50" — and even if it means "manual labor until death."](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GRIMES-Mars.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Rob Loud for Pemberton Music Festival via Flickr / NASA / Futurism\</em\>*

## Hard Sell

Renowned electronic musician and futurist Claire "Grimes" Boucher, who happens to be in a relationship with would-be planetary colonizer Elon Musk, revealed her own latest thoughts about space travel late last week during an [appearance on YouTube](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EpIRVZ-vWE>).

As [transcribed by *Consequence of Sound*](<https://consequenceofsound.net/2021/01/grimes-mars-death/>), Boucher said she'd be down to move to Mars "after age 50."

"Manual labor until death most likely," she added in all caps, "but hopefully that can change."

## Challenging Trip

This isn't the first time Grimes has weighed in on a trip to Mars, though it sounds as though her conviction about the journey is now firming up.

Earlier this year, an interview from *The Face* asked Boucher whether she'd rather go to Mars to upload her consciousness to the cloud.

"I would very much like to do both of these things," she said. "Like, these are the main things I’m trying to do."

"I guess I’d like to upload my consciousness, and then when it’s technologically possible, have my consciousness live in some kind of humanoid vessel that can speak and move freely, and then that body can go to Mars and other planets with my mind inside it," she concluded.

**READ MORE:** [Grimes Willing to Travel to Mars “After Age 50” Even if It Requires “Manual Labour Until Death”](<https://consequenceofsound.net/2021/01/grimes-mars-death/>) \[*Consequence of Sound*\]

**More on Boucher:** [*Elon Musk and Grimes Have Baby, Claim to Name It “X Æ A-12”*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-grimes-baby-name-claim>)

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
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