Janelle Monáe travelled back in time to watch David Bowie perform, and Lucy Dacus believes her. Sort of.

“Lipstick Lover” singer Janelle Monáe and Boygenius band member Lucy Dacus were in conversation as part of Rolling Stone’s ‘Musicians on Musicians’ series earlier this week when Monáe, 39, made the big reveal.

In a video that has since gone viral on TikTok, Monáe, who identifies as non-binary and uses all pronouns, claimed that they used time travel to go back to the 1970s to watch music genius David Bowie perform his fifth album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars .

The record was released in 1972, 13 years before Monáe was born. Bowie died of liver cancer aged 69 in January 2016.

“I think when I saw David Bowie,” Monáe says at the beginning of the clip.

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