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Janelle Mon\u00e1e has claimed she “travelled back” in time to meet a young David Bowie.<\/p>\n
The Pynk singer insisted she met the singer backstage in the 1970s and was left inspired by his gender-bending performance to make her own queer-positive art.<\/p>\n
“I think when I saw David Bowie, I travelled back into the 1970s and I saw him do Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and it was incredible,” Janelle, who was born in 1985, told fellow singer Lucy Dacus in a new video shot for Rolling Stone Magazine.<\/p>\n
Incredulous, Lucy, 30, replied, “You… travelled back?”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” Janelle, 39, insisted. “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.”<\/p>\n
Fans were quick to express their confusion over Janelle’s bold claim, with several querying Lucy’s lack of follow-up questions.<\/p>\n
“Are we not gonna talk about Janelle travelling back in time?” one commented on Rolling Stone’s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n
“lucy’s face as janelle’s comes out as a time traveler is priceless,” added another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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