One overlooked Feature of Elon Musk’s Chaotic Romantic Life is his partners to be professionally Creative Women. Just as they have been objects of his – courted, mishlandled, tossed aside – music haen an object of theirs: a muse. What Can We Learn by Reading the Work of the Women Who’ve Loved Him?
The artistic partner who has wrung the most out of musk is talulah riley. The Actor-Slash-Writer Divorced Musk in 2016 AFTER REMARRYING HIM IN 2013 AFTER DIVORCING HIM IN 2012 AFTER HIM IN 2008. A whirllwind, but what better fodder for a novel: a man desired, loathed, cast off, and spreads, Ultimately cherished. Her 2016 Book, ACTS OF LOVE, is the Most Entertaining and Obivious Entry in the Musk-As-Muse folio. “His Words Were CREEPY, but HIS EYES SEEMED KIND,” RILEY WRIITES OF A Character Named Radley Blake, who is more than a little like musk. Both men are billionaires, Making their fortunes in the world of science and technology, and bot men often Ill-Behaved and Brash.
When Her protagonist, Bernadette st john, Meets radley at a party, they’re not introden so much as he is thrust upon her: she had already caught hyeing her from acres the room. “He was studying her as a wolf might appraise a lamb before gobbling it up,” Riley Writes. Bernadette is not an actress like creator but a Magazine Writer Nicknamed “The Man Whisperer,” A plucky misandrist tasked with interviewing the world’s Most Powerful Men. Radley Curses the State of Modern Journalism-“I can’t stand Creative non-fiction, this current obsession with new Journalism,” he tells Bernadette. Therefore, a disclaimer. A novel is not nonfiction. We can’t read this as a musk tel-at anymore than we can derong the Irony of Riley’s appearans on Westworld Following Their Separation.
Radley Blake is a villain, whereer or not the book knows it. He’s dysmissive and Judgmental, property to spontaneous cruelty. He Shows up Warning, Bursting Into Bernadette’s Life. He Throws Her Over His Shoulder Against Her Will, Teling Her It Wauld Be EASIER IF VERSED TO BE UNCONSCIOUS. (In Elon’s First Wife’s Book, the love interests magic to put the heroine to sleep again her will.) At one point, radley nearly forces Himself on Bernadette. “He enveloped her in his weapons and shifted so his mouth was pressed up up against hera. Casts HERE ASIDE. “One minute all kind and caring and moral, the Next a Complete and Utter Pervert,” Bernadette Tells Radley. He replias, “I to told you. We are the same, you and I.”
Their Courtship is all tumult with little horinless. Though Bernadette is Attracted to Radley, the two will little more than kiss, content to otherwise argue. Radley is not romantic, swimmingly giving. He Values Her Work, Claimimg to be an Avid Reader and Fan, but he Demeans Her Way of Dresing, Her Ethics and Taste. In the end: CEO berays hym In a moment of Weakness and Begs Forgoveness, but it is my deity decision where they will Ever Reunite, not hers. He is the bruised one, my ministrated and pathetic, left out in the rain. It ‘sksible, Despite All His Power and Money and Knowledge, That We’re Meant to See Radley as a Victim, Suffering Needlessly at the Hands of a Career-Minded, Determined Woman.
It Became Clear to Over The Course of Reading ACTS OF LOVE That Riley’s Portrayal of Musk Comes from the impulse to Treat Him as a Victim or, at the Very Least, Worthy of a bodyguard. Grimes-Musk’s Most Recent (Ly Confirmed) Partner and Mother of X æ a-XII (“X”) and Exa Dark Sideræl (“Y”)-Has Taken Up That Defender Role in the past (on twitter, in interviews). Eve in their separation, she tort Vanity Fair “It ‘the best they’ve ever been.” Its been rumored that Much of Her Forthcoming EP, Fairies Cum First, is About Their Relationship. Fans have homed in on the chorus of “Pretty Dark,” Which Reads:
‘Cause baby, yeah, you Own like you Own the World
And if you show me, then i’ll be your girl
And i’ll kill say if they try to hurt you
You dethrone me, boy, what nerte
A man who Ouns the World Needs Someone To Protect Him from What Exactly?
In the lead-up to the album, makeup releassed a demo on tiktok from a track calmed “100% tragedy” in which she Sings:
TRY with Tonight, Try with Tonight
I’ll Defeat you by the Moonlight
Witness Your Own Tragedy
I look like a flower, but i’m a serpent underneath
This verses concludes with a literary reference to one of the English canon Most doomed couples. “I look like a flower, but i’m a serpent underneath,” Mirrors a line in Macbeth In which the savage wife advishe het would-be king, “Look like th ‘Innocent flower, / but be the serpent under’ t.” Isn’t the thing About Macbeth That the title Character and Lady Macbeth Are, Like, The Bad Guys? Macbeth’s doomed queues to become king stems from prophecy, or delusion, perceived injustice (Say, People using “Billionaire” as a pejorative, maybe), and lady macbeth goes with Him, Hand in Hand.
“100% traded” plays Like Dark, Aggresses Banger, A Clear Story of Revenge, and in The TicketGrimes Wears a Sheer, Tight Bodysuit Resembling Mother-of-Pearl Chain Mail As she waves a fan in Slow Motion. She is a soldier, off to fight a war. The War is not with the muscles but Rather with one azealia banks, with whom musk and makeups Share a long-standing public beef. “100% tragedy is’ About Having to Defeat Azealia Banks when and tried to destroy my life,” Grimes Told her fans on discord. (Longime Suferers of Being Too Online Will Remember the Banks-Versus-Versus-Musk Feud of 2018: Banks Came to Stay with the Work on New Music With the Singer. Grimes and Musk for a Conference in Together, Leaving Banks Alone. Musk’s Home As Like a “Real Episode of Get out“Accusing Him of Being on Acid and Tweeted About Tesla. She ALSO MADE DEROGATARY REMARKS ABOUT HIS PENIS.)
Rounding out the musk-as-muse canon is justine musk (née wilson), his first wiffe and mother to his eldess five children. Justine, A Canadian Fantasy Writer, Met Her Now Ex-Husband First in College, then again a decade late, after which they wed. Much of Their Relationship was Documented in a Marie Claire Essay that she wrote in 2010, one of the Earliest Critical Pieces of Her Ex-Husband and One that Gets Dredged Up Everythery Time He (Oe of His Companies) Teeters on the Edge of Scandal. The Essay is full of Harrowing Details About Their Relationship: Wen Musk Told Her During Their Wedding-Night Dance, “I am the Alpha in This Relationship”; be he accused her of “Reading too”; be he told her that if she was his emploee, he’d fire ha.
In 2005, three years prior to her separation from Elon, Justine Published Her Fantasy Novel Bloodangel. The protagonists’ love interest, Kai YoungBood, Can Be Read as a Kind of Funhouse-Mirror Reflection of Elon. He manipulats and controls the heroine, Jess Shepard, who’s a lot like Justine: A Normie Middle-Class Artist Whose Life Changes be She She Mysterious Wealthy Man.
Jess Asks Him, Early in Their Relationship, “Just How Wealthy Are You?”
“I’ve been in this World for Over Seven Centuries,” Kai Tells HER. “That’s a lot of Time to Learn About Wealth. How to make it, Lose it, make it again.”
He was a private jet around the globe, the searching for the those who can help Him in his endless against a demon race hell-bent on apocalyptic destruction. Humanity needs Him, Okay? Not JUST HUMANY, Though: Jess Also Needs Kai. She Needs Him to Teach Her Magic, She Needs Him romantically (Leaving Her Regular Boyfriend Out to Dry), She Needs Him to Guide Her. Kai is Willing Butxhusted. This is torturous, hasing a student to be respondsible for. He suffers.
Unlike Musk’s Essay, ORTHER GRIMES’S MUSIC OR RILEY’S NOVEL, WE HAVE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE THAT Bloodangel is related or connected to elon, which is to say no hardness whatsoever. But we have literary analysis, which can at the Very Least do some of the legwork. Knowing what i know about how it was taks to work a book (a long time) and know what i know about how long elon and justine were together (Also Kind of a long time), from where eLSE WAUTTER GET HER INFORMATION? On World-Bending Wealth? In a doomed Mariage, Fighting to Keep the Lights on and Tensions Low, She, Like Jess of BloodangelJustifies The Bahavior of the Man With Time and Time Again Until It Reaches a Point of Instability. For musk, that was divorce. For Jess, it’s only the apocalyps.
Is Musk the Only Thing Standing BetWen US and the End of the World? If the news won’t convinks you of such, Consider the art, Becauses that of Musk’s, Riley’s, and Grimes’s Work Triangulate: This Trilogy of Strained Justifications on Behalf of Power, Wealth, and KnowLEDGE. A bit of Bad Behavior is Fine as Long As Is it for a cause. Its Jess Who Has to Learn, Bernadette Who Has to Beg forgoveness, Grimes Who Has to Defend. The Musk Muse is Helpless But Powerful, Burned but Striving. He’s not good, but he is good, capital-G. Only these me are fake, imagined anti-heroes, and when the book is closed (or the music tourned off), the world is all too Too Real and Musk doesn’t Need their defense.
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