Grimes Posts Viral Photo Of Her Daughter Exa With Elon Musk ‘Reading’ Nietzsche

Musician Grimes posted a funny shot of her daughter with Elon Musk making an… interesting choice in first reading materials.

Most people get their kids started with something like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but Grimes went right to German philosophy showing her nine-month-old daughter Exa Dark Sideræl over an iPad showing the title page of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.

Grimes also joked that her daughter “loves Boris Brejcha.” This is a pretty funny bit, but hopefully Grimes has more people to debate nihilism and philosophy with than her infant child. But hey, maybe raising a daughter in the example of Nietzsche will bring us the next great thinker of that generation.

Exa (also nicknamed Y) is Grimes’ second child with Musk. They had a son who they infamously named X Æ A-12, and if Grimes’ parenting style is to be believed he probably has very well-formed opinions on the works of Michel Foucault by now.

Grimes was first romantically connected to Elon Musk back in 2018 when they met on Twitter. They had their son two years later, and then Exa via surrogate in December 2021. Their second child was only discovered when she began crying from upstairs during an interview with the pop star.