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........

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