Janelle Monáe has claimed she once experienced time travel as she visited the 1970s to see David Bowie performing live.
Janelle Monáe says she once time travelled to see David Bowie perform live.
The 39-year-old musician has claimed she “traveled back into the 1970s’ to watch the iconic singer perform his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Speaking to Lucy Dacus for Rolling Stone magazine’s Musicians on Musicians series, she said: “I did.
“I travelled back into the 1970s, and I saw him do Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. It was incredible.”
Lucy seemed surprised by the claim, and asked if Janelle “traveled back”, with the Make Me Feel singer insisting she even made it backstage.
She added: “Yeah, I was backstage. I was like, this is what I want to do.
“I jetted back to the 2000s and I was like, I can have the musical, make the music, create the lyrics, and create community around transformation and being queer — not even just in sexuality, but in how we see the world.
“Let’s go outside the mundane and what people know us as every day. Leave room to allow yourself to transform.”
The conversation started with a discussion about Halloween, with Janelle suggesting this time of year allows other people to match her “frequency”.
She said: “I think that’s the synergy between Halloween. I feel like people give themselves permission to be on my frequency.”
Bowie died aged 69 after a secret battle with cancer, and Sir Gary Oldman recently claimed the “world’s gone to s***” since the rock star’s death.
He told The Hollywood Reporter: “Don’t you feel that since he died, the world’s gone to shit? It was like he was cosmic glue or something. When he died, everything fell apart.
“I miss him. Occasionally, I’ll see something, it’ll make me laugh, and I’ll think, ‘God, I wonder what Dave would have made of this’, or ‘Oh, that would have made him laugh.’ “
Janelle Monáe ‘travelled back in time’ to see David Bowie live
