The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

To the mainstream news, she’s the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children. To a certain type of extremely online Tumblr user in the year 2012, she once approximated God. Today, we take a challenging look at the strange tapestry of Grimes’s life and unearth stories about the Internet era that shaped millennials, pipelines to right-wing radicalization, and domestic abuse as a public spectacle. COME SEE A BIT FRUITY LIVE! Tickets are on sale here. :-) Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Thanks to today’s sponsors! Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off. Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at https://www.rocketmoney.com/fruity. Subscribe to Taylor's journalism at User Mag. Subscribe to Kat's journalism at Spitfire News. Subscribe to Taylor's YouTube channel! Me on Instagram. A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I don't typically record like prefaces at the front of episodes, but as you can tell by the title,
0:06.7	this is an episode about a one grimes, someone who weaves a particularly and exhaustingly complicated web.
0:15.4	Even among the people we talk about on this show, when we talk about celebrities, we're usually
0:20.0	also talking about bigger forces at play, we talk about celebrities, we're usually also talking about bigger
0:21.5	forces at play, which stories about these famous people come to represent and which affect us all.
0:27.6	Grimes is someone who, in going from beloved Tumblr-era indie artists to abused accomplice
0:34.9	of the world's richest man and shadow president, tells us stories about
0:39.1	the internet era that shaped millennials, about pipelines to political radicalization, about domestic
0:44.5	abuse. It's a rich and complicated text that I hope you find as interesting and perhaps
0:51.2	challenging as I did while recording it. So, without further ado, just kidding, I do have one more thing to say.
0:58.5	This spring, a bit fruity, is hitting the road.
1:03.0	I am so excited to be doing seven live podcast shows this coming May and June in Toronto,
1:10.5	Chicago, Philly, New York City, Seattle, L.A., and Portland.
1:15.7	It'll be just like the podcast, but, you know, live with Q&As, audience feedback.
1:21.7	You know, we can all hang out. And there will be some special guests who you might recognize from this podcast.
1:28.8	I am truly so excited.
1:30.3	Tickets for those shows are now officially on sale, and the link for those will be in the episode
1:36.0	description.
1:37.0	I can't wait to see you.
1:38.3	I'm so excited.
1:39.5	Okay.
1:40.5	Grimes, I'm ready for you.
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