Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, has never believed in quiescence. Like Lady Gaga, Madonna, or David Bowie, she’s a shape-shifting artist constantly reinventing her music, fashion, and public persona.

But lately, it’s as if she upgraded the breakneck speed of her reinventions to 5G. She and her boyfriend Elon Musk broke up. Then in a recent Vanity Fair profile, she admitted she was back with the billionaire memester but living separately and hiding a secret baby with a name that sounds fit for a Sith Lord: Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. Now they’ve broken up again, and she’s maybe dating Chelsea Manning?

Meanwhile, Grimes has adopted the anime-like visage of a dark cybernetic fairy queen in some photoshoots and music videos, like a retro-futurist Heavy Metal magazine cover made flesh. Last week, she even donned brightly hued luxury NFT “crypto-clothing” during a virtual musical performance for the metaverse’s first-ever fashion week — floating above a stage in Decentraland as a crowd of avatars looked on.