Elaina St. James: 10 Things We Learned In 10 Minutes (Exclusive)
The culture is way deeper than rap and ATC is all about being inclusive and letting talented, intriguing and unique individuals get their servings of hip-hop and dig deep into their own personal interests, lifestyle habits and everything in-between. The beautiful and grown Elaina St. James chopped it up with Attack The Culture for a conversation ranging from Kanye West and Drake’s music to the best - and worst - reality TV shows plus sky-diving at 40 years old, crushing on Thor and The Rock and much more.
There are 10 things we learned from this Q&A but if you have the time listen up to nearly 30 minutes of pure fun convo with the one and only Elaina St. James.
1. Elaina has a preference when it comes to Drake and Kanye West
I like Drake and I like Kanye West. I like Drake probably more than I like Kanye because he’s just very clean cut and cute and he’s not threatening. He’s not threatening. He’s cute. He’s got a cute personality.
He can make fun of himself. So I like that kind of personality period across the board. I’ve seen things where he’s kind of making fun of himself and I love that. That humbleness. That’s such a turn on. He’s freaking adorable.
And I love Rihanna.
2. There’s nothing wrong with Drake dating older women but it’s hard to take younger men seriously
I don’t take them seriously as far as in real life because I don’t really think that they’re serious. And what would I have in common really talking to somebody that’s like 25?
But in my line of work, that’s my core demographic. So your core demographic I think is pretty much mine. It’s 25 to like early 40’s. That’s the core of my fans and what I offer them is the fantasy. They’re not going to date somebody my age - most of them in real life, some of them do and I’ve actually talked to some of them and they’ve said, ‘Oh no, I exclusively date women that are ‘that’ much older.’ But I can provide a fantasy that they do have an intimate look at me and what I do so it fulfills that. That’s kind of what I provide.
3. Elaina is on the market but it’s more than looks to win her over
I do have fans that are older than my age but the weird thing is, and I am single, a lot of those guys are going to want families and they’re going to want to have kids and I see this on ‘90 Day Fiancé’ and I’m just like, ‘You know, if you want to have kids someday.’ I mean look at Ashton Kutcher. He left Demi Moore who is freaking amazing but he wanted to have kids so he started with somebody younger. That’s kind of the way it is. But would I date somebody much younger? Yeah, it’s fun. I’ve dabbled thinking about when I’ve been approached by a younger guy but there’s other parts of it that are important than just youth. There has to be a connection and some sort of kind of energy that I respond to.
4. It’s OK for Alpha Males to want families in today’s times
There’s a hot model on TikTok and there were all these pictures and all these women are swooning and my first thought was, ‘Okay, if you want to actually make women faint just post a picture holding a baby,’ and that’ll just do us all in because there is something about that. That mix of [toughness] and being a good dad that is so attractive. That’s beyond.
5. The best reality TV show right now is ‘90 Day Fiancé’
My guilty pleasure and I’m probably going to be doing a podcast about this next week is freaking ‘90 Day Fiancé - these people are Americans and they go over to some really difficult challenging places to live just because they find this love and then they’re like, ‘I’m going to go over to freaking Morocco,’ or something, ‘and live in this oppressive place,’ or India where oh God, everything’s so difficult. And then they’re dealing with cultural stuff. There’s usually always an age difference.
This is typically much older woman and much younger man. It can go the other way and so there’s all of these things and it’s absolutely my guilty pleasure.
6. It’ll be hard to get Elaina on a Sunday night date if ‘90 Day Fiancé’ is on
My kid knows on Sunday nights, he calls it my ‘dumb’ show and I watch my ‘dumb’ show and I love it. I pour a glass of wine, I get some sort of chips or something and I just sit there and delve into the crazy.
7. There are some unwatchable reality TV shows
I could never get into the whole ‘Duggar’ [reality TV show ‘19 Kids and Counting’] thing - and these are from a while ago - and I couldn’t get into the Kate Gosselin stuff. I just didn’t find that appealing at all. I love the ‘Beverly Hills’ and some of the different ‘Housewives’ ones - I love those, I watch those - not all of them. They’re just pretty to see. They live in such opulent, beautiful environments that that alone [is amazing]. It’s like when you were watching the ‘Kardashians’ and it would be like, ‘Everything is just so pretty. The surroundings.’ The other ones I can’t get into are the 600 pound people. I can’t get into that because first of all, what a downer as I’m drinking wine and eating chips and watching that and going, ‘You know, maybe I shouldn’t eat any of this stuff.’
8. Thor and The Rock would be Elaina’s dream reality TV duo
It would be my two crushes - Chris Hemsworth and The Rock. I want to just watch them. I just want to watch like a little voyeur into their lives because they’re just freaking eye candy.
It wasn’t until [Chris] got his haircut so it was around ‘Ragnarok’ when [I first had my crush on him]. And then I was like, ‘Oh, hello!’ And then it was the ‘Men in Black [International]’ and I was like, ‘Oh yes!’
With Rock, I think he kind of just snuck up on me. He snuck up on me and it was his personality. Certainly not when he was a wrestler - it was probably when he started letting his humor show and then I was like, ‘Oh, he is just delightful. He just has the personality.’
You see these clips of him where he’s riding around.
9. Elaina has a huge crush on an X-Men icon
I do have a crush on Hugh Jackman. I’ve got this thing. And the funny thing is in real life, I tend to date geeks. I tend to date really smart, lawyer ‘ish business owner [types] that are not big and bulky and that’s probably it.
The fantasy is always fun because it’s very different than what you like live. I love The Rock. Right now it’s just The Rock and Chris Hemsworth that I’m like, ‘Hello!’
10. Elaina would vote for The Rock
You know why? Not to get too political but I think he’s a good person and I think he has the strength.. Honestly, I was thinking if he was running against Trump, I have a feeling and just from a standpoint of just pure brute strength and power and charisma, I think he would have blown him away.
I think there’s that. He’s just got such a charisma and such - in advertising they call it a high Q Score like he’s very well respected I think.
I can’t wait for this new movie that he’s in with Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot who I adore. She is just perfection because again, she’s humble and she’s fun and she’s down to Earth.
Those are the kind of people that are grateful for what they have that I find really appealing. The spoiled brats, I have no time for that. Life is short.
