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made a riotously entertaining disclosure about after her 1980 song Upside Down was used on the show.
The sci-fi series, which is set in the 1980s, dropped its final season on last year with one episode prominently featuring Ross' beloved disco single.
Upside Down subsequently experienced a thunderous 373 percent bump in on-demand streams, according to a report in Billboard.
However when Ross, 81, performed the song recently in concert at The Wynn , she revealed not only that she had never seen the show, but that she was in fact not entirely certain it was a show at all.
'You know that song is a hit all over again,' she said onstage to a round of applause: 'with that movie, that television show - what is it, a movie? Stranger Things?'
Shen then cheerfully asked an audience member: 'What is that movie about?' in footage posted by TV producer John Pascarella at his Instagram handle @jpasc24.
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Diana Ross made a riotously entertaining disclosure about Stranger Things after her 1980 song Upside Down was on the show; Ross is pictured in Times Square this past New Year's Eve
'STRANGER THINGS may be a global hit … And may have helped Diana Ross’ UPSIDE DOWN race up the charts again … But she hilariously revealed during a recent Las Vegas show at The Wynn that she doesn’t know much about the show ….,' Pascarella captioned the video when he uploaded it Thursday.
The Queen of Motown was playing Las Vegas as part of her international Diana in Motion tour, which will whisk her off to the UK and Japan later this year.
Stranger Things dropped its final episodes last month, including a widely derided, draggingly long scene in which Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) comes out to his friends as gay
Meanwhile Upside Down - a favorite of King Charles - was written for Ross by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, the founders of the disco group Chic.
