Trick-or-treating. Bobbing for apples. Watching Janelle Monáe terrorize and confound Jennifer Hudson on daytime TV. Such beautiful Halloween traditions! Monáe appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show on October 29 dressed as the classic scary movie monster, Michael Myers Mike Myers’s live-action Cat in the Hat from 2003. The costume is bone-chilling, from her Krampus-like fur, to the tail that creepily moves on its own, to the Kabuki-ghost makeup. This isn’t a Cat in a Hat. This is a damn Babadook.

The costume is made all the scarier by Monáe’s fierce commitment to doing the entire interview in character as the classic feline god of mischief himself. “Hello, children! Hello, grown folk! I love you!” she says in a voice halfway between Amy Sedaris and Barney. When Hudson tries to

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