A little more than a year ago, Grimes covered Vanity Fair and revealed (accidentally) that she and Elon Musk had welcomed their second child together via surrogacy. The VF interview was so awful, I immediately put it out of my mind, so it took me a second to remember that Grimes has two kids now. Elon Musk has… many children. I don’t even believe we know exactly how many, because remember when we learned that he impregnated a Tesla executive and she had twins? I feel like there are more stories like that. Hey, it’s not like Elon spends any time with any of those kids either. In any case, Elon and Grimes’s two kids have the dumbest f–king names. Their son is X Æ A-12 while their daughter is Exa Dark Sideræl. Only now Exa goes by another name.
Grimes is sharing a new update on her little girl. The singer and mom of two — who shares daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, 15 months, and son X Æ A-12, 2½, with ex Elon Musk — shared new side-by-side photos of her and her toddler on Twitter Thursday.
Both mom and daughter were dressed in red onesies in the photo, with Grimes (born Claire Boucher), 31, sporting green tips at the end of her yellow-blonde hair and the toddler donning a similar look in her little tufts of hair.
“Normally we [don’t] post her for her privacy, but she’s fairly unrecognizable here since shes channeling Goku or smthn,” she tweeted as a follow-up to the photo set.
In another tweet, she commented on her toddler’s name, writing, “She’s Y now, or ‘Why?’ or just ‘?'” calling the name “curiosity, the eternal question, .. and such.” Grimes also acknowledged that the change isn’t official because the “government won’t recognize that.”
Imagine being this white. Imagine doing this to your innocent children. “Y, go out and play with your brother X Æ A-12.” Grimes is convinced that she’s the most hardcore manic pixie dream girl ever and Elon is like “yes, this rules!” I feel so sorry for those kids, my God.
Y 🐉 C pic.twitter.com/esTg8e5Gr7
— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) March 23, 2023
She's Y now, or "Why?" or just "?" (But the government won't recognize that). curiosity, the eternal question, .. and such.
— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) March 23, 2023
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These kids are going to end up growing up and doing what Zowie Bowie did… goes by a very normal name Duncan Jones.
I was going to say the little girl is going to change her name to Doris as soon as she legally can.
But I suspect that the mom is calling the little girl Y because X and Exa sound too much alike and neither kid knows which one is being called when mom talks to them.
My friends call me B because my name is not an American or English name, and it’s just easier for people. I have no problem with a single letter. But having to spell my real name at least 10 times a day gets old fast, and I feel bad for these kids.
That’s funny, my friends call me B too! I don’t have a long or non-American name, but it’s just a nickname that’s stuck.
And at least with Bowie’s kid’s name it was the 70s – what excuse do these loons have?
And good for Duncan. I look forward to their future name changes.
I used to think being raised by Amelia Bedelia would be fun and then I got older and realized that it would be stressfull and dysregulating as fk. Grimes reminds me of that.
Duncan Jones was his birth name… and he named his daughter Zowie, so I don’t think he hated it (his middle name) that much.
And become an accountant
She’s a nut case, and the names are OTT stoopid, but my sons are A, B and C. 😀 Apparently A is continuing the trend, because his first son’s name starts with A lmao. So yeah, our silliness is generational. My ninja foodie is R2-D2.
I’m going to name my kids # and ($ now.
Shes naming them like the Teslas– Model X, Model Y.
The next ones will be S and 3.
Does she have a black eye?
I noticed her possibly black eye (or I, or aye, whatever she calls it) also…
“I, or aye, whatever she calls it” that made me actually LOL. Thank you for that laugh.
My very non-white mother goes by Y. It’s her first initial and she’s been Y all her life.
Yeah, that’s fine but it’s not her official name is it?
I had an assistant who went by Q because it was her first initial and the name was a mouthful. Very James Bond.
In some cultures y is a word. So it depends the intention. Some people are named nicknames. Grimes is trying to name her daughter “why” as in question. Its cruel.
I was gonna say there should be a law but she said it was unofficial “because the government won’t recognize that”. And I Say Thank you to the government for saving some children from (some) parental insanity.
She’s so tiresome. 🙄 Too pretentious and self-important for me.
This. She seems utterly exhausting and try-hard. I’m sad for the children because the parents seem incredibly self-involved, but at least they will be able to afford therapy later.
I was just about to say her whole aesthetic is over-the-top and just exhausting.
She’s exhausting. Her ex the muskrat is a menace to society. Any woman who wants a child with him needs to have their head examined.
I feel for the kids.
Too be so rich that it doesn’t matter what your name is. Same way I felt about apple Martin.
To be so rich and to give your kids so little… poor kiddos.
100% agree. Some of Elon’s kids seem to have at least one functional parent. These two are just so so screwed
Does she care for the kids on a day to day basis- b/c all of this faux artist, eccentric, otherworldly crap- exists completely separately from feeding and bathing and changing diapers and reading books and being elated by first words and steps.
Is this performance art?
Silly hair dye aside- she is presenting a product.
I hope her reality is happy b/c the public façade seems like it is hiding misery.
I hope the children are loved and cared for.
I cannot imagine having a mom like this. Exa isn’t even a bad name, it’s kind of cute.
I feel like Grimes is going to normal herself up in about 5-10 years. This has to be exhausting. Remember when Lady Gaga was weird?
These kids are going to rebel by growing up to be tax accountants.
My first thought was ‘future accountant’.
Her mother sounds exhausting and trying so hard to be deep and original. I hope they get to go to school and make friends with kids from other families (even if still in a rich person bubble) so they get a sense of perspective on their lives and feel they can choose how they want to live.
Loved her music back in the day and I would have continued to enjoy her bizarre-but-lowkey eccentricity if she hadn’t gone on to marry one of the most insufferable assholes on the planet. Now? I just can’t with her. She just seems so vapid and try-hard. I actually DO feel for her kids mostly because they’ll grow up with an absentee dad like their 8 (9? losing track) other siblings…
I’m guessing being out there / original is why he is rich.
I’m guessing being born white to a wealthy family didn’t hurt his future prospects.
Absolutely not. He’s rich because he inherited a fortune from his father who owned an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa. Elon Musk is a total idiot and failson.
I hope those kids somehow have a long-term, consistently stable, normal, loving, engaged adult in their lives, since their self-involved parents are too busy being anything but
They have older brothers too, that live relatively normal lives. Thank their mom for that, she seems to have it together for them.
I hope al the kids know each other? Wishful thinking in my part I guess.
These morons… So you want to use a letter for phonetic representation that is unusual, how “interesting”. You know, other countries (yes, they exists…) use those. You named your youngest “side garbage” in a language that actually use that letter. If this was not an actual human child it would be funny.
Did Grimes actually marry Musk? I didn’t think so. Also, I remember when she said he didn’t give her any money. If that’s still so, she needs to lawyer up. And how did Grimes get that black eye? I hope she and her kids are safe and secure. She should focus on her music again and put out more albums if that is her passion. I also hope she has excellent nannies, like Khate does.