Michaela Jaé on How Being a ‘Techno Girl’ and ‘Huge Anime Fan’ Inspired Her Futuristic ‘Green Lights’ Video

The Emmy-nominated actress and singer spoke to PEOPLE about her newest single and music video, plus her forthcoming debut album, ’33,’ due out in September

Allow us to introduce you to Michaela Jaé 33F7.

Many first met her as the dynamic and fearless Blanca in FX’s groundbreaking series Pose and later as no-nonsense, do-gooder Sofia in the Apple TV+ comedy Loot. However, today, the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated actress, 33, re-emerges under a new identity: model 33F7 — a hybrid “humanoid woman” from the future seeking reconciliation with her past as she launches right into her present destiny.

“Crazy enough, I’ve always felt like there was a strong kind of spiritual energy that was saying there’s this other form of you trying to connect with you from the future and tell you that the world is not what it seems,” Jaé explains to PEOPLE the inspiration behind her android persona.

“People can take that as what they take it as. But for how I was receiving it, I was like, OK, present-day Michaela Jaé is going to constantly make sure I try to convey this message,” she continues. “Whether it be to give glimpses of who model 33F7 is and what she’s trying to say or how she does have this very similar image of me and how I would [present that] today as the actual physical and human form of Michaela Jaé. That’s where it all derived from.”