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!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement( iframe );t.display= none ,t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement( script );c.src= //cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js ,c.setAttribute( async , 1 ),c.setAttribute( type , text/javascript ),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);(new Image()).src = https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b ;cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({ playerId : ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b , mediaId : 329447dd-382d-4c8d-b1e2-198fc47e676b }).render( 68f88e30e4b05b9180d3b64c );});Janelle Monáe just made a far-out claim, insisting she had the privilege of seeing David Bowie in concert over a decade before she was even born.While speaking with singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus for Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians series, the Grammy winner talked about being inspired by Bowie’s knack for transformation, a skill she said she witnessed firsthand.“I travelled back into the 1970s and I saw him do Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and it was incredible,” said a straight-faced Monáe, who was born in 1985.“You travelled back?” the very puzzled Boygenius rocker Dacus asked.Janelle Monáe, here at the 2025 Met Gala in May, talked about her time travel experience during a Rolling Stone interview with boygenius rocker Lucy Dacus.Monáe seemed serious, telling Dacus, “Yes. I was backstage and I was like, ‘This is what I want to do.’ And so I jetted back to the 2000s and I was like, ‘I can have the musical, make the music, create the lyrics,’ and create a community around transformation and being queer and, not even in sexuality but just in how we see the world.”Though the Make Me Feel singer’s time travel tale certainly seems like something out of a Moonage Daydream, she has long cited Bowie as one of her biggest creative influences and has covered many of his hits over the course of her career.In a 2018 interview, she said, “Bowie has been a huge inspiration to me with regard to creating concept albums, new worlds and alter egos. When I heard this song for the first time, it took my music tastes to another I wanted my own writing to be just as interesting and clever.”Related...Janelle Monáe Criticises Fool Nelly For Performing At Trump’s InaugurationJanelle Monáe Reveals Her Celebrity Crush: I Don t Think I Was Comfortable Telling Her The Queer Evolution of Janelle Monáe’s Pleasure And Politics

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