If Cinderella can have a fairy godmother, thenJanelle Monaecan have a fairy Halloween mother.
Let’s just hope there’s no midnight caveat for her elaborate costumes.
Sounds like Willy Wonka.
Janelle Monáe Halloween costume 2023.Janelle Monae/X
“My job is to make people believe in their imagination.
That is a job, that is my purpose.
Imagination inspires nations,” Monae said inThe Hollywood Reporter’s cover storyon the HalloQueen.
Janelle Monáe Halloween costume 2019.Janelle Monae/X
“It is important to the committee of imagineers that I go out and I do that good work.
“We must tap into the imaginations of our kids.
These are the people that are going to be the innovators of the future.
Janelle Monáe Halloween costume 2020.Janelle Monae/X
Monae certainly is the person for that message.
As for how much all this pure imagination costs, you’re asking the wrong giant insect.
“Well, we pay people in jellybeans,” Monae claimed.
“We pay in dandelions, we pay people in orchids, and we also pay them in sorbet.
Its a whimsical version like Burning Man where there is no currency.”
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This year’s costume will be “an iconic movie character,” the singer/songwriter/actress hinted toPEOPLE.
“I’m going to have multiple costumes,” she said.
And I was standing in solidarity with my fellow actors and writers.
And they asked us not to be any movie characters.
So, the only hint I can give is it’s a movie character.”
