Janelle's been playing the android character for so long in her music, and onscreen. We see you . Do y'all think she can hold her own as a rapper? "Django Jane" is the first time I think she's rapped a whole track. Monáe, a very conceptual musical artist, took it to the next ultimate level with her third studio album. Pilar Fitzgerald: Reminds me of the transition from "Q. U. E. E. N." into "Electric Lady" on her last album. In the midst of all the world's chaos, Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer — both the album and the "emotion picture" — is a heroine's journey set to a symphony. Sidney Madden: The last song to end the emotion picture — where they're escaping to freedom — is called "Americans.". Monáe, a very conceptual musical artist, took it to the next ultimate level with her third studio album. Each memory is uniquely different, depicting each song from the album. Despite years and years of her only ever saying she "only loves androids." I'm obsessed with the episode of Electric Dreams where she plays a robot that looks like a human based on Philip K. Dick's writing. All contents © 2020 The Slate Group LLC. You heard it here first! If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. Smooth af. There's pain, but there's no fear. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Sydnee Monday: I am so inspired by this idea of getting free and pushing past fear and the importance of this representation. Or have a coat that looks like Tessa Thompson's in "Make me Feel"? Dirty Computer‘s portrays compelling themes of societal stereotypes, praising of individuality and uniqueness, and the struggles of religious beliefs. Prince is in the instrumentation, he's in the choreography, he's in the visuals.
Welcome to the world of Dirty Computer, where marginalized people fight to exist in a world that wants to rid them of their “dirt” (read: difference). Lena Wilson is a culture writer based in New York City. As Jane is being cleaned, the cleaners extract memories from Jane’s mind before they are erased. You were dirty if you looked different. Pilar Fitzgerald: The cinematography for this video is super tight. We've established how much Janelle is experimenting with herself and song styles in this album, and "Pynk" almost felt like too much of a stretch from the Janelle we've known these many years. lol. In her interview with Hot 97, she says she hopes that black women feel seen, heard, and celebrated, and I did and I'm so thankful for her presence, especially in the midst of all the world's chaos. I'm thinking of the easy, laid back smooth-talking Janelle on the end of "Electric Lady.". Sidney Madden: With "Django Jane," I feel like she really intended on rapping. This song is clearly so personal. ( Log Out / And if you were dirty, it was only a matter of time.” Janelle Monáe released emotion picture Dirty Computer with accompanying album. She's both a woman and black and, of course, considering those identities and how they intersect. Sydnee Monday: The soundscape of "Crazy Classic Life," though! Sydnee Monday: What do you like more about it?
A director's cut of the full, 44-minute masterpiece that is Dirty Computer: An Emotion Picture was added to YouTube on Friday morning, and you should, of course, watch it there.