The singersongwriter &34;jetted back to the 2000s&34; afterward. Janelle Monáe says she timetraveled to the 1970s to see David Bowie in concert: 'I was backstage' The singersongwriter &34;jetted back to the 2000s&34; afterward. By Emlyn Travis :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/EmlynTravisauthorphotocba6765b433b4f93b9398d18053153b1.jpg) Emlyn Travis is a news writer at . She has been working at EW since 2022. Her work has previously appeared on MTV News, Teen Vogue, and NME. EW's editorial guidelines on October 21, 2025 7:33 p.m.

The singer-songwriter "jetted back to the 2000s" afterward.

Janelle Monáe says she time-traveled to the 1970s to see David Bowie in concert: 'I was backstage'

The singer-songwriter "jetted back to the 2000s" afterward.

By Emlyn Travis

Emlyn Travis is a news writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2022. Her work has previously appeared on MTV News, Teen Vogue, and *NME*.

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Janelle Monáe; David Bowie in 1973. Credit:

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Janelle Monáe: singer-songwriter, actor, rapper… time traveler?**

Maybe so. The 39-year-old "Phenomenal" singer, who uses she/her and they/them pronouns, revealed that her perspective on becoming an artist changed after she went back in time and attended a David Bowie concert. **

"I think when I saw David Bowie," Monáe told Lucy Dacus during a recent "Musicians on Musicians" conversation for *Rolling Stone*. To which Dacus replied, "You saw him?"

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"I did," Monáe said. "I traveled back into the 1970s and I saw him do* Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars*,* *and it was incredible."**

Dacus appeared visibly confused by Monáe casually dropping some time-traveling lore. "You traveled back…?" she asked. **

"Yes, I was backstage and I was like, 'This is what I want to do,'" Monáe said. "So 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.' And not even just in sexuality, in how we see the world."

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She continued, "Let's go outside the mundane and what people know us as every day. Leave room to allow yourself to transform." **

But Monáe isn't just linked to the past. The *Glass Onion *star also revealed that "I absolutely feel my DNA in the future," too. **

"And Cindi [Mayweather] is that," Monáe said, referencing her android alter ego that took center stage in the 2010 album,* The ArchAndroid.* "And we are helping each other."

Which, honestly, appeared to throw Dacus for a loop once again. "Cindi is like the future of you?" she asked. ****When Monáe agreed, the Boygenius star simply responded, "Whoa."

Monáe's revelation that she can time-travel drew a wide range of responses in the TikTok post's comment section, with some suggesting that she was just being sarcastic to others fully believing that she visited other decades in the past. **

"if anyone can do it it's janelle monae," one user wrote. Another added, "No it's true I was backstage with her."**

Others, meanwhile, praised Dacus for her "strong poker face." Another commenter perhaps put it best when they wrote, "You know what…The world is on fire let that person time-travel if they want to. 💀" ****Watch Monáe and Dacus discuss the past, present, and future in the clip above.

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