Any one who has ever seen or heard Janelle Monáe knows that she’s very much out there in the best ways possible. Now, we know just how far out there she is: Circa 1972 at a David Bowie concert.

Yes, as she revealed during in a recent chat with Lucy Dacus for Rolling Stone ‘s Musicians on Musicians series , Monáe is a time traveler. (So, is that more Bill and Ted or, like, The Time Traveler’s Wife ?) And at some point in her early career, she harnessed the space-time continuum itself to go see Bowie and his band perform during the tour for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

“I traveled back into the 1970s and I saw him do Ziggy Stardust and it was incredible,” Monáe said. I mean, I maybe would’ve instead stopped the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or

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