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Buckle up and strap on your tin foil hats — we’re taking a trip to Bizarro Land: Population 1. Look, we all know Janelle Monáe is freakishly talented. She’s a singer, actor, writer, fashionista, but a time traveler??? Surely, this has to be some sort of joke, right? Wrong! The award-winning artist dropped that bombshell in her October 20 interview with Lucy Dacus for Musicians on Musicians issue. The puzzling confession came when Monáe was explaining a pivotal moment that shaped her as an artist. “I think when I saw David Bowie,” Monáe told Dacus. Okay, so far, so good. No red flags. Maybe Janelle met the rock icon before his 2016 death. “You saw him?” Dacus asked. “I traveled back into the 1970s and I saw him do Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, and it was incredible,” Monáe casually revealed. Um, what? Hold on a minute. Our readers deserve some clarity. Where can we get this time-traveling technology? Does the time machine company accept Venmo? Can it comfortably seat a family of four? Asking for a friend. Alright, if you’re confused by Monáe’s revelation, so was Dacus, who responded, “You traveled back?” “Yes, I was backstage...” Well, that settles it. Janelle Monáe is officially a time traveler — unless she was being sarcastic. You be the judge. And if you need us, we’ll be reading "Quantum Mechanics and Wormholes for Dummies."
