King Princess Criticized The "Rich People" Of The Titan Submersible And Their "Stupid Decisions"
"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."
You know King Princess: singer, songwriter, and queen of queer pop anthems.
But did you know she's actually descended from a couple who died on the Titanic?
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 the Titanic in 1912 and famously chose to remain together in death. You might remember the heartbreaking scene in the Titanic movie with the old couple — those characters were based on Isidor and Ida.
Well, King Princess shared her thoughts on OceanGate Expeditions' Titan submersible that offered tours of the Titanic wreckage for $250k/person and went missing.
According to Entertainment 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 the Titanic, there weren't just billionaires — and then dying is so crazy to me," she concluded.
The five victims of the Titan were 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 — is descended from Isidor and Ida Straus.
