" These people are like , ' Oh , I have so much money . Oh my god , I just want to go to the inhabitable depths of the ocean . ' In a GameCube ? No . stagnant ! disconsolate . "
You knowKing Princess: singer, songwriter, and queen of queer pop anthems.
But did you know she’s actually descended from a couple who died on theTitanic?
The singer (whose real name is Mikaela Straus) is the great-great-granddaughter of Macy’s department store co-owner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida. They were aboard theTitanicin 1912 and famously chose to remain together in death. You might remember the heartbreaking scene in theTitanicmovie with the old couple — those characters were based on Isidor and Ida.
Well, King Princess shared her thoughts on OceanGate Expeditions’Titansubmersible that offered tours of theTitanicwreckage for $250k/person and wentmissing.
According toEntertainment Weekly, the 24-year-old posted a now-deleted TikTok, saying, “I think there is a cycle of bajonga-jillionaires wanting to explore shit and then dying. Like, look at my fucking family, right? Who wants to take a boat across the ocean? That sounds terrible. But they did it because they had the money to, and they died.”
“So now these people are like, ‘Oh, I have so much money. Oh my god, I just want to go to the inhabitable depths of the ocean.’ In a GameCube? No. Dead! Sorry.”
“Rich people are not exempt from making really stupid decisions, obviously. Why do rich people go to space? You don’t need to be there. You’re not a fucking scientist. Because they make terrible decisions, constantly. I hate this world.”
“One more thing: The sheer irony of these billionaires going down to visit the gravesite of other billionaires — amongst other people who were on theTitanic, there weren’t just billionaires — and then dying is so crazy to me,” she concluded.
The five victims of theTitanwere British adventurer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani business chair Shahzada Dawood, his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood, and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush. Stockton was married to Wendy Rush, who — like King Princess — isdescendedfrom Isidor and Ida Straus.
