During the shoot, Nett played for the designer a then unreleased song called “Skipping Class,” which featured a then uncleared sample of the peak-Grimes Grimes song “Genesis,” which Nett wasn’t sure he’d get the green light for. But thankfully, Linnetz knows Grimes.
“I was like, ‘Oh, I’ll just ask Grimes,’” says the designer, recounting that the Canadian singer (and erstwhile partner of Elon Musk) vaguely knew who Nettspend was: “I think people similarly have been…