Robyn has revealed she “hated” Elon Musk long before the Tesla CEO was almost universally despised. She made the comments during the hot take segment “I Don’t Think So Honey” of the podcast Las Culturistas with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.
“I always hated him, way before it was cool to hate him… because there was a time where [it] wasn’t cool to hate him,” Robyn said. “For me, I started hating him when he put a Tesla into space with a David Bowie song on it. He actually shot a car into space, as if there wasn’t enough shit floating around.”
The pop queen continued, “I think there should be democracy in space. There should be democracy on Earth, too, yes, which we maybe don’t even have at the moment. But the fact that any commercial company can decide what to do with natural resources and also do tacky things, like sending a stupid fucking car into space that’s also dangerous for people — think about the astronauts that are up there in the International Space Station and they don’t really know what’s going to hit them or whatever.”
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“Can we all just like have a vote on whoever gets to do anything?”
Once Robyn’s one minute was up, Yang and Rogers urged her to keep going with her take. After the singer clarified that the song was David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” she hit out at Jeff Bezos.
“He also did that. He went up in space, and then he came down,” she recalled. “He put out [a post] on social media [and] was like, ‘Now I realize that we really have to protect this beautiful pearl in the universe.’”
Expressing frustration with the Amazon founder’s being out of touch with reality, Robyn added, “So you had to destroy the human race, like destroy the environment… To go up [into space] so that we all could have you realize this thing that everyone else understands. Nobody else had to do that to get that this is important.”
Listen to the full podcast below.
Robyn is currently gearing up to release her new album, Sexistential, out March 27th. It’s her first album since 2018’s Honey, and features the singles “Dopamine,” “Talk to Me,” and “Sexistential.”