Absolutely bonkers, and I honestly hope she sincerely believes that, if it helps her make her music. This is the kind of harmless crazy I’m happy to see in artists.
How is this harmless? If she actually believes it, it’s literally a delusion, and very well might be a sign that something is very wrong.
I’m with you, prole. This is the kind of shit that starts cults. On a tangential note, I wonder how many people believe in the Great Jaguar Spirit because of Joe Rogan?
“I was backstage, and this is what I want to do,” Monáe continued. “And so I jetted back to, you know, the 2000s. And I was like, ‘I can have the musical, make the music, create the lyrics, and create community around transformation and being queer.’ And not even just in sexuality, but in how we see the world.”
Yes, slack-jawed reader, this whole thing is likely a creative little metaphor for Monáe’s own connection to Bowie’s music, and how it gave her the courage to embrace her own chameleon-esque powers of artistic reinvention and genre-smashing personal growth.
Well, she’s an alien from outer space and a cybergirl without a face a heart or a mind, so it makes sense.
Has access to time travel
Didn’t save Joseph Dombey
I hope she has to walk 5,280 feet in my shoes.
