About this episode

The episode explores the impact of Elon Musk on Grimes' career and artistic identity.

Since hard launching with Elon Musk at the Met Gala in 2018, recording artist Grimes has been a mysterious and divisive figure. Who is Grimes as an artist, and what could she have been had Musk not interceeded in her strange little indie career?

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