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Grimes has hit out at her ex Elon Musk’s social media platform by calling it ‘poison’ and ‘a prison’ in a scathing new statement.
The singer who shares three children with the Tesla boss has spoken out against Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, after he bought the site back in 2022.
Grimes took to X on Monday (July 7) to share that she ‘could not be more hyped’ about working with dance musician Sub Focus.
In a separate post, Grimes continued: “Ok I’ve basically been entirely off social media and returning here it is overwhelmingly abundantly and profoundly clear that this place - and all of these places - are a poison - a prison of utterly short form deep sounding nonsense attached to no one that ur brain will discard imaging its learning. The entire thing is a theatre. A shitty pale simulacra of a life.”
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Ok I've basically been entirely off social media and returning here it is overrwhelmingly abundantly and profoundly clear that this place - and all of these places - are a poison - a prison of utterly short form deep sounding nonsense attached to no one that ur brain will discard…
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) July 7, 2025
This isn’t the first time that Grimes has spoken out against social media, as back in April, she wrote: “I’ve been way more offline lately, tried all the apps for a bit yesterday and man! It’s rly dark on here!
“I think it’s very unhealthy to be on social media, it feels like a ghost town of depression, bitterness and pictures of beautiful women doing sext things.
“I feel like this is a massive moral failure of all the apps. And it’s causing great harm to society.”
In the past, the singer has been vocal about her wishes to keep her children out of the public eye, despite her son, X, often being photographed at high profile events with Musk.
Earlier this year, Grimes replied to a tweet asking what she was doing to ‘protect her children’ from the spread of misinformation.
She said: “I, unfortunately, do not control the internet and cannot wipe this from the internet. I have tried begging the public and my kids’ dad to keep them offline, and I’ve tried legal recourse. I follow you here, I’ve seen young [people] destroyed by the internet too.”
Grimes continued: “The state of my children's lives being public is of grave concern to me and I think about how to solve this every day.
“It’s insane to me that there’s no way to deal with this. I would hope there was some law that would allow a parent to veto small children from living public lives, but I don’t even trust the law to help me now if I tried to invoke it [to be honest]. We are in the Wild West of information content and the dismantling of privacy and it’s very concerning.”
