Janelle Monáe casually claims she's a time traveler: 'I traveled back into the 1970s'

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Janelle Monáe is going viral after casually claiming in a conversation with Lucy Dacus that she once traveled back in time to the 1970s.

The moment took place during a musicians-on-musicians interview published by Rolling Stone. About halfway through an otherwise ordinary discussion, Monáe told the Boygenius singer that her love of costumes is inspired by seeing David Bowie perform in the 1970s — the decade that preceded her birth.

"I traveled back into the 1970s and I saw him do 'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,' and it was incredible," Monáe said, referencing Bowie's 1972 album.

Dacus gave a look of visible confusion as she took in what Monáe had just said. "You traveled back?" she asked, to which the "Glass Onion" star doubled down. "Yeah, it was backstage," Monáe asserted with a completely straight face, giving no indication that she was kidding or not being literal.

"And I was like, 'This is what I want to do," she said, adding that she then "jetted back to the 2000s."

This isn't the first time Monáe has discussed time travel, presumably much to the confusion of her interviewers.

The singer, who has often embraced sci-fi themes in her work, told The Guardian in 2014 that she is "part-android" and that "there's a time travelling machine here (in Atlanta)" that she has "been through."

In 2022, Monáe also told Rock Cellar that she is "a time traveler" but is "actively choosing to not time travel, to not go to the future, but to stay right where I am and to not allow these moments to pass me by."

In a May video for Allure showing her getting ready for the Met Gala, Monáe said she would be "showing up as my time-traveling self" to the event by honoring the "past, present, and future through style."

Monáe's time travel claim quickly made the rounds on social media, as fans expressed just as much confusion as Dacus appeared to be experiencing in the moment.

"My girl lucy had the reaction for all of us," one fan commented on Instagram, while another joked, "Janelle was like did I stutter when she reiterated her point and you know I love that for her."

Sherri Shepherd discussed the viral moment on her daytime talk show, quipping, "I love Janelle Monáe, but she sounds crazy as hell." Jenna Bush Hager and Savannah Guthrie also weighed in on the "Today" show, with Hager concluding that "maybe she has powers beyond our understanding," while Guthrie declared, "I believe her."