If all is fair in love and war, then Grimes was certainly within her rights to use artistic expression on Player of Games to hang the laundry on billionaire green tech giant Elon Musk.
Grimes lyrics about Elon Musk on Player of Games
It will not take a rocket scientist to decipher the Canadian’s lyrics from her new single and figure out that the metaphor in the song title is a layered depiction of Musk in their three-year relationship that came to a crashing end in September 2021.
The soft electro house record was a suitable platform for Grimes to reveal that while Musk is a solid gamer, he was an amateur in the game of love.
Player of Games starts out with the songstress pitting herself against the billionaire’s thirst for interstellar dominance.
Baby how can I compare To the adventure out there? Sail away To the cold expanse of space Even love Couldn't keep you in your place
Grimes, clearly out-favoured by the thrill that’s encapsulated Musk’s thirst for adventure, admits in the song that her decision to let the billionaire go was an act of love since, “if I loved him any less, I’d make him stay.”
“I’m in love with the greatest gamer, but he’ll always love the game, more than he loves me,” she croons.
Released last week Friday, the song has already garnered close to a million streams on YouTube.
Meanwhile, as Grimes eloquently put it in Player of Games, Musk paid no mind to the song and, instead, has been fixated with space ventures and developments at Tesla.
We will soon make these real pic.twitter.com/t4z5oNFnwW
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 4, 2021
You can stream the song below: