{"id":9445,"date":"2026-03-26T00:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9445"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:02:28","slug":"wait-did-grimes-just-join-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9445","title":{"rendered":"Wait! Did Grimes just join LinkedIn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m only gonna be releasing music on LinkedIn from now on,\u201d Grimes <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Grimezsz\/status\/1895574123646210259\">posted<\/a> on X in February 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>A year on, and true to her word, a profile for Claire Boucher (her real name) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/claire-boucher-7453213b7\/\">appeared on the networking platform this week<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s unclear is if it\u2019s actually the Canadian techno artist, who shares three children with Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, and if she\u2019ll actually be using it to release her music exclusively. In her profile, she lists her professions as CEO of the Los Angeles company Media Empire and an artist at Nazgul Recording LLC, the record publishing company she established in September 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The profile features many of Grimes\u2019s professional achievements, including making 2012\u2019s <em>Visions<\/em> using GarageBand, and her 2015 release <em>Art Angels<\/em> being named album of the year by <em>Stereogum<\/em>, <em>NME<\/em>, and <em>Exclaim! <\/em>magazine. In 2021, she writes that she \u201cset the NFT world on fire\u201d by releasing new music via a series of auctioned cryptocurrency art pieces using non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Also listed on her online r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is her 2021 appearance as a judge on Fox\u2019s virtual avatar game show, <em>Alter Ego<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>With April Fool\u2019s being only a week away, the timing of Grimes\u2019s apparent hard launch on the platform of Easy Applying and cold DMing is curious. Some fans have commented with skepticism: \u201cThis is a performance piece\u2026\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ac_mist_\/status\/2036271415658250611\">one X user wrote<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/eiritana\/status\/2032605402160934986\">Another X user posited<\/a> that it\u2019s \u201cGrimesAI having a laugh.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Fast Company<\/em> has reached out to Grimes\u2019s publicist for comment and confirmation. Either way, she is far from the only celebrity entering their LinkedIn era recently.<\/p>\n<p>Rapper and activist Meek Mill <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7441137140861825024\/?originTrackingId=91gRFAw47zNmTsQDV4IR8g%3D%3D\">joined the platform just last weekend<\/a>, writing: \u201cStarting my LinkedIn journey as an artist, I have dedicated much of my time to honing my creative skills. Now, I am ready to transition into the business world and showcase my true potential. For too long, others have spoken on my behalf, but now I am taking the reins and speaking for myself, supported by a strong team.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91515100\/wait-did-grimes-just-join-linkedin\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m only gonna be releasing music on LinkedIn from now on,\u201d Grimes posted on X in February 2025.\u00a0 A year on, and true to her word, a profile for Claire Boucher (her real name) appeared on the networking platform this week.\u00a0 What\u2019s unclear is if it\u2019s actually the Canadian techno artist, who shares three children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brand-spotlights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}