and braless
And doing her best Prince impression
And trying to get Jidenna tf outta here


Make Me Feel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGRzz0oqgUE

D'Jango Jane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjQq5rMlEY



New Album "Dirty Computer" 4.27

I don't know who's the bigger winner in that arrangement. They both deserve trophies.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

She's out here doing a bisexual Kiss by Prince, and I'm beyond here for it.

Dope.. wish I liked the pre-chorus more on "Make Me Feel" but dope otherwise

I wonder if it's officially credited.

It's dope.

that she's been helping Jidenna write and taught him that flow...

i mean Wondaland is her label and all..

d

>that she's been helping Jidenna write and taught him that
>flow...
>
1) Jidenna has been rapping like that since before signing to Wondaland. His old performance videos might still be on youtube. This flow predates Monae.
2) Artists get help from their underlings or prodigies all the time. Big Pun wrote for Fat Joe. Jay-Z heavily borrowed from the little know Rocafella signees Chris N Neef (Young Gunz). Dr.Dre and DOC wrote and vocal coached every line out of early Eazy E (technically his label boss). The list goes on.
3)It is so clearly a Jidenna-assisted rap that I won't be surprised if his name is in the writing credits.
4) It's not uncommon for artists within a camp to write for each other when they hit a creative block or want something different.




>i mean Wondaland is her label and all..
>
>d

Anti-gentrification, cheap alcohol & trying to look pretty in our twilight posting years (c) Big Reg
http://Tupreme.com

this aint that

but its cool



is tessa hot to some people (besides janelle)? i dont see it.
even the westworld booty shots was 'meh'

No, not to me at least

and I found myself asking the same question recently with all of her high profile placements

she's not a knockout in the looks department

I haven't been blown away by her acting skills

I don't see it

and just to be fair

I also had the same thoughts about Carey Mulligan

average at best looks

not blown away by her acting

but we're suppose to buy her as the love interest of the Goslings and DiCaprios of the world

I don't see it.

yeah, its her face
I was straight crushing on her in Creed. something about those eyes.

she fine AF

I love looking at her

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Big PEMFin H & z's
"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

that's a 'yes' from me, dawg.

so hell yeah she is, in a girl next door kinda way

Bottoms up....and the devil laughs..




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

1. First song got to grow on me but JM always bugged me for not embracing her inherent sexiness. Show that body while you got it girl.


2. Not a fan of her as rapper. Jidenna should have sang it as well as wrote it.

Looking forward to the album though.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

She almost 40 and saw the clock ticking and started showing her titties. Sick world.

did anyone catch her electric dreams episode? i was so happy she played an android.

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Big PEMFin H & z's
"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

a dope ass Prince tribute.

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nm

sounds so much like him, even pronunication of some words.

nm

now.

generic Jidenna joint but halfway through it was all her

I caught a small glimpse (of an actual female body) one night I saw her out during the tuxedo era. Comparing that to how thick she was in Moonlight knocked me out of my seat.

I do enjoy the music, but she's hit as fuck to me.

to do the tuxedo look in the first place. Your comment sounds like now her music is second to what she looks like. Not sure if that is your intent but that's what I got from it.

if youre willing to flash the girls you should expect ppl to comment

Lemmie get it out of the way now; not a fan of Monae as far as a her music is concerned(that's another post). BUT she's clearly one of the most talented black mainstream musical artists and was a top tier performer and musician in an era where we were impressed that Alicia Keys could play a piano like a 5th grader. I always respected the fuck outta her and what she was trying to do.

I always admired her work from hitting the ground fully formed, touring and dancing her ass off (with a full band) on some Brown shit...there was a period of time where it felt you couldn't intentionally avoid seeing her live cause she found a way to headline/open for every major act in every major city for like five years..

But Its fascinating to see someone very intentionally plotting her art in a very deliberate fashion and have large swaths of the public basically say fuck that. She was doing afrofuturism before it became a buzzword, high concept videos and performances that would put Bruno Mars to shame; clearly ahead of her time by almost a decade. But nobody gives a fuck about all that, they just want to know why she wears her hair like that and how she showing off/not showing off them titties re that Guardian interview she just did for this album cycle:

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It’s an ugly phenomenon she has glimpsed on social media. “I see how people try to pit women against each other,” she says. “There are people who have used my image to slut-shame other women: ‘Janelle, we really appreciate that you don’t show your body.’ That’s something I’m not cool with. I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.

“I’m guilty feeling like I can’t just be,” she says. “Like either it’s this or it’s that, it’s black or it’s white. But there’s so much grey. And I think I’m kind of discovering the grey and realising it’s OK not to have all the answers, or to supply them.”

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Thing is while the bulk of it clearly has to do with ya good old sexism I can get why the public in general demands certain expectations and behaviors from the beautiful people it deems as celebs; pretty sure if Michael B Jordan decided his next role he was gonna play someone disfigured where you can see his face or muscles people would be like WTF. But it's funny how someone is working their ass off to give you this weird sci-fi motif, used to give interviews in character, etc...and everyone is still like 'yo, who you fucking, why you dressed like that'.

It just feels like a general lack of imagination we've got as a public. Its like nobody kept on pestering Prince why stayed dressed like a figure skater, why rhythm nation era janet jackson dressed like she was in the military ("are you trying to stop a coup?"). Its like the magic is kinda gone.

I agree with all points until you claimed nobody cared about Prince's antics and who he was fucking. It's been an obsession since Color screen televisions.

Prince hit the scene like a meteor and of course niggas were like wtf is this? Same with Michael, Bowie, Parliment-Funk, etc.

We a decade removed from her schtick and we still asking the same questions, lol. Its less about who she fucking; she’s a good looking celeb so of course sex is a big part of it. Thing is after awhile there was an acceptance of those dudes on their quirky face value where there isn’t with Monae. Like people weren’t asking Prince why wasnt he wearing timbs during the hip-hop era, lol. Usually we ride out at least to a certain extent with the vision, poor Monae doesnt even get that

janelle only got two albums and an ep under her belt since 2008. she didnt saturate us enough with weirdness like gaga and nicki so now shes pretty much stuck with wolves wanting more.

You have a very simple answer...

Image has always been number 1 with Janelle... the aesthetic

not the music.

People will buy into anything if the art in of itself is genius... but when THAT isnt number 1 priority people will pick apart.

Janelle has been performance art before she is a musician who makes hits.. her music is aesthetically beautiful... but she doesnt have Killer songs

Prince made hits

Janet made hits

Bruno makes hits

Gage made hits - the minute Gaga stopped making hits AND stopped dressing up people like WTF.. put on the meat dress again so I can start jammin.

Hits give you good will. There is no doubt Monae is EXTREMELY Talented on multiple fronts.. but Janelle's image (and puff's promo) is what made her hang around in the zeitgeist so long. Her music has never been the core of her movement or staying power.

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DJTB YOMM

like i can barely stand to type more than 10 fucking words about it anymore, its such bullshit. she's a genius

fuck these childish assholes.

Her genius is performing and essentially world building.


I'm not here for her body or who she's dating. I just can't connect with mediocre music, no matter how energetically its presented.

there's also a difference between her being good at creating a visual aesthetic and folks feeling the need to constantly harp on whether or not she's "showing her body" and how nice her tits are.

d

Clearly, we have work to do before we get to a moment where a woman isn't judged by appearance instead of talent, and I think Monae should be commended not for dressing conservatively or whatever it is folks think she was doing, but for just being so dogged in her pursuit of her artistic goals. That said, the music has never moved me. It always feels like show tunes, as if she is auditioning for a Vegas run.

to me, Prince was the most high musical genius of all time

there are those that just never felt moved by him *shrug*

d

Make Me Feel is jammmmmmmin

https://twitter.com/CaseyRain/status/967236156109787136



Lenka Paris
21 hrs ·
Roughly 2 and a half years ago I played this little party for Prince, and at one point he goes: Stop the music, I wanna play something. .... He opens his computer and plays a groove. Then this heavy synth hits and my 2 friends and I go simultaneously "oh shit!", he heard us and laughed. It was futuristic and so so good. Last night I heard Janelle Monae's new song. As soon as the synth came in, I went "oh shit! That's it!". He gave that to her. That man was such a pioneer, and so ahead of his time. I listened to Janelle's phone interview with Annie Mac yesterday, looks like Prince's beats and sounds will be thru out the album, she couldn't talk much, she choked up and said it's hard for her to talk about him, and that she misses him. This song is brilliant. Prince's genius continues to amaze me. I miss him 💜

it's like be sexy, but not so sexy that that's all men look at you for

Janelle has always put art before being a sex symbol, Im sure she will continue to do so

it's just strange that society is now focused on this with her, especially considering there's more porn than anyone should be able to consume available at our fingertips now

this is like a conquest, the one woman men weren't expecting to show skin does it and it's a victory I guess

(some stupid person will say Im "hating" again)

patriarchy inherently feels entitled to all women's bodies..whether its to deem it acceptable, thereby demanding to see more of it, or to reject it and say it "ain't hot"

d

>this is like a conquest, the one woman men weren't expecting
>to show skin does it and it's a victory I guess


What happened to her being a strong woman that's comfortable in her skin and not afraid to show it?


Sounds like YOU are the one wishing there were more limits on what women can and can't do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaYvlVR_BEc

Late pass me - because I'd heard the singes before but I couldn't stop listening to Make Me Feel and Django Jane. This shit is heatrocks.

it changes the vibe to become too mainstream and I don't think she needed to do that.

Got a bonus, too.

lauryn hill was headlining this festival. Word spread that she was on the bus 'sick' and wouldn't be performing.
Janelle came out and tore it down. I guess Lauryn didn't want to be upstaged, all of a sudden she felt better after Janelle's performance. She did a subpar performance, folks were leaving in the middle of her set.

I became a fan of Janelle that night. This was back when Electric Lady first came out.

but she gave us those fugees albums, her debut, and shows the followed both. I'm good with that.

going to a show to see Lauryn is like lotto. you might win, but it most likely a waste of money.

The first time I saw her, she was headlining and she was 'sick'. She wasn't going to perform, but then came out and performed only 30 mins.

Second time she performed an entire set. But they were all different versions of her songs. didn't realize til later that it was the result of the lawsuit between herself and some writers on the album (think I read an article about that on here actually). Like, all the slow songs were sped up, fast songs were faster lol. Most joints had a ska/reggae rhythm. I literally saw people in the audience looking confused until she got to the chorus on most songs.

Third time, as described above, folks including my wife and I, walked out of that shit. She came on mad late and was a damn disappointment.

first one def was kinda odd ball. 2nd one made them famous and rich.

she was the best performance of the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xAMnJgc3oA

this puts me in mind of the old Janelle that I fell in love with.
the way she rides the beat is smooth and unique.
you see how flawless her voice and style is.

And not just cuz she in a bathtub fulla almond milk in the video

I just saw that they are on the beat.
No wonder I love this!

this was my joint from the beginning.

https://youtu.be/uovntV3ZMDc


MY MY MY

mad Prince-y

arguably a better prince than actual late stage prince


buuuut, i'm kinda meh on the prince/pop direction


going back to j cole for now

are the songs that I love/really like.

surprisingly, i didn't like the song with her and pharell as much as I thought I would.

but yeah, the prince direction is nice but i don't love it.

i realize i love anything that showcases her voice.

If he could've gotten a little outside of Rodney Jerkins.

liked it a lot more than the electric lady.

shes doing this sound really well and im digging it. probably top 10 for 2018 for me.

...

https://twitter.com/JanelleMonae/status/1656337446970486785



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

its on at lunch tho..

lawdamercy

and i saw a lot of "my prayers have been answered" tweets, lol.

also, after learning that jidenna is poly, and seeing janelle how i see her now? i bet there was some wild nights going down when them two got together even if their relationship was "friends" or "work."

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

but that's how i found out he gets down like that.

I fux with his last album

what gave you that impression?

niggas dated women but them niggas was gay

like my boy said “he’s gay, he just don’t know it yet”

Again, I thought he was gay. No idea if he is.

but all these new terms are just ways of saying a nigga gay without the hard G

pan sexual, poly.. okay nigga, you like niggas.

Still like his music and I could totally be wrong but I always thought the nigga was gay.

for themselves. there are some that are cool with the women having multiple guys but that's not as common.

I was just wondering though because I never had a thought that he liked dudes. just thought he didn't fit with the narrow stereotype of men in hip-hop.

i watched a couple interviews he did recently.

there appears to be no question about that.

if he says so

lol

one of the best albums of 2023 so far.

but I’m playing 85 right now.. lol

Needed something more aggressive to end my Friday

i'll do that after i'm done checking all the new shit from today.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

that woman is a walking talking hypocrite.

She objectifies all the time.

https://youtu.be/Y7S6wLP_vsY

Enjoy!

from this.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydneyscott/janelle-monae-had-the-best-response-to-this-guys-tweet

to this

https://www.vibe.com/lifestyle/fashion/janelle-monae-responds-joke-monopoly-man-style-1234733400/

to where she is today.

The monopoly man joke might have been planted as part of this whole pivot.




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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

along with the growth in her arts.

but one can wonder if she is more comfortable in her skin or just wanted to do it on her time.

I’m sure Diddy wanted her to show them thangs day 1

Also a good idea to respect the music/art first and not just think titties day 1.

and she wasn't going to the industry tell her how or when to be. not to say that she's wanted this the whole time. I'm sure there was a lot of internal back/forth with what to present as each album rolled out.

https://twitter.com/MartyaLaMode/status/1656861113282183173

My cynic take also is younger women have nothing to prove. They know they bad in a potato sack. They get a little older they have to work a little more to remind people. Halle Berry waited until she was 33 to show them Jammers in Swordfish.



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

https://twitter.com/JanelleMonae/status/1656700211626926081?s=20

I think it's the opposite. younger women (people in general) have everything to prove. the women may get more attention, but they're trying to find themselves. age tends to bring more confidence and comfort with one's self.

https://twitter.com/Drea_got_rage/status/1656709512256946176?s=20

cryin

She has had an issue with the “male gaze”

It never seemed like she was comfortable with it or wanted it in any way so she eliminated it by rocking the uniform and referring to herself in a non-sexual way “The android”

Once the world was built and I think maybe she gained more clarity in who she was in ther personal space she could shed that skin.

I love it… seems like she is enjoying herself and has built a dope creative world around her

Which isn't surprising considering:
https://www.nme.com/news/janelle-monae-calls-out-misogyny-in-rap-music-we-need-to-abolish-that-shit-too-2701422

She was saying a lot more than what her words were saying.

Just trying to give herself plausible deniability.

Misogyny is ever present, but to say rap should be abolished?

yeesh.... I'm a little disappointed, but not terribly surprised.

"Danger, there's danger when you take off your clothes
All your dreams go down the drain, girl."

-Sincerely Jane.

That seemed so heavy handed. It always kinda bothered me.

>Misogyny is ever present, but to say rap should be
>abolished?
>
>yeesh.... I'm a little disappointed, but not terribly
>surprised.


Right. Like to hell with the guys who aren't misogynistic, just fuck all male rappers because of the ones white media likes to shove in your face. As one of her staunchest supporters from the beginning, that one hurt. I backed away then. She's got the titty lovers now tho, so she doesn't need me lol.


>"Danger, there's danger when you take off your clothes
>All your dreams go down the drain, girl."
>
>-Sincerely Jane.
>
>That seemed so heavy handed. It always kinda bothered me.


Bothered you in that you thought she couldn't live up to it? Or you thought it was too judgmental? I'm interested in what way you found it bothersome.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

lawdermercy

I ain't feeling her as a rapper.

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Shoulda been a whole genre with feature films attached by now.

That model/actor money came easy I guess.

I wonder if it was a commercial decision...

Janelle's biggest song of her career was a feature on "We Are Young".

She never continued in that direction so I doubt it would have anything to do with commercial success

I never really 'heard' her on that cut. Was she on the instruments? What was her part?

....over

really not much

>I never really 'heard' her on that cut. Was she on the
>instruments? What was her part?


She sings on the bridge, roughly 2/3rds through the song.

like they just threw her on there.

if they removed her vocals I doubt anyone would notice

its like she was photoshopped into the video.

https://youtu.be/Sv6dMFF_yts

times in those first 3 or 4 months after it came out. It's one of my favorite albums of the last 15 years. But there weren't any hits on there. Most of her singles since those early days were designed to be hit songs, meaning they had a sound that was in line with mainstream Black radio and music of the time.

If she “wanted” hit records she would’ve let Bruno or Jeff Bhasker (“we are young”) write something for her… she had all the aesthetic but a killer songwriter would've taken her to the stratosphere.

that first full album is really good though.

so good.

It's not that she has nice jammers. Them joints is perfect. No more no less.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

lipstick lover a cool lil bop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9u1kYvdjU

yeah.. I believer her.. but you know, they make slightly larger suits. lol

I aint mad at her but she basically said it was the right time to show them thangs.

hope this doesn’t mean she is about to get dropped from her label

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cs_Jp-KNaAz/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==