Singer Sheryl Crow, 63, waved goodbye to her Tesla as she sold the electric car and blasted billionaire “President Musk” in a viral clip. “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla,” Crow captioned an Instagram post rebuking Elon Musk’s intensifying political power as leader of the Department of Government Efficiency as well as President Donald Trump. Crow pledged to donate the money generated from the sale to NPR, “which is under threat by President Musk,” in hopes that “the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth.” The nine-time Grammy winner has been an outspoken political critic throughout the years—slamming fellow musician Jason Aldean for “promoting violence” in his Try That in a Small Town song. At the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., Crow assessed America’s current political climate as not “uplifting,” The Hill reported. She added that one must endure “rugged times” in order to “decide who we are in our humanity.” About her decision to sell the car, Crow wrote, “My parents always said … you are who you hang out with.”
Right, but now instead of ‘aligning’ with musk, she’s aligning with someone who want to align with musk. She doesn’t want to own the car, but she’s willing to take money from someone else who does want to own the car and whatever she thinks that signifies.
At minimum she could have donated it to a cause or something, it could still be sold but without an alignment between her and the buyer and some place with a little less agency than herself could benefit and take the mildly hypocritical hit.
Funny you mention that! If you read the article she donated the money from the sale to NPR who is under fire from Muskie boi.
I did actually read that, and the donation was a good direction, but still equated to selling the car on the regular market which puts her in the regular sales cycle and doesn’t have much impact in that way. A donation and auction could have been more impactful.
How would that affect the donation? And what is the difference between the “regular” sales cycle and auctioning?
Financially, this doesn’t make sense. Decreasing supply without changing demand means more money goes to Musk/Tesla. Same principle as a stock selloff.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion… If she donated the car and it was then sold, it’s the same but distancing herself from the sale while also potentially raising even more awareness at the charity and advertising a ‘discarded’ car vs a sale and donation of funds.
I would say the bigger takeaway is that reducing supply by one car can be more than made up for by raising awareness and this potentially reducing demand. At least she accomplished part of this by the announcement, even if it could technical raise demand by those that would react out of spite.
Circulating Teslas is 29999 vs 30000. If there’s 30k worth of demand, they’ll make a new one. Oversimplification but that’s the idea. “Raising more awareness”, I mean… maybe? Actually, probably, if it was really a huge spectacle.