There’s a certain type of celebrity that we both fear and admire because they are able to muster incredible resources in pursuit of a truly foolish goal: becoming the ultimate Halloween person. While your backyard Halloween character is limited by things like budget, the capacity of the local power grid, and the number of 12-foot skeletons their nearest Home Depots have in stock, the Famous Halloween Person can basically function indefinitely. This is how you get it Heidi Klum as worm; here’s how you get the collected Halloween efforts of actor and musician Janelle Monae. Who may have really outdone himself this year by posting photos of himself on Instagram of a new one AND costume that is so accurate that, like the real thing, it is really hard to look at.
You know that’s what a costume is expand if accompanied by a list of credits: Posting to Instagram, Monae thanks set designers, photographers, stylists and more for the photo set, which depicts her as both the alien herself and his little buddy Elliott. (Also, there’s a shot of ET dressed as a beautiful lady from the movie, which we assume took credit for “custom hat.”) The thing is, Monae, who has done Halloween before as things like the blue diva lady The fifth elementthe Grinch’s daughter, that fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head once and more not fuck around on the topic of Halloween. (If you want to go deeper, she gave an interview to it earlier this month THR about her devotion to the holiday, referring to her costumes as “performance art” and suggesting that she has a “Halloween fairy godmother” who helps finance her incredibly elaborate productions.)
Your move, Klum.