Monae's work with Miguel will sample the Pixies smash "Where Is My Mind?" mashed up with a funk beat
― Number None, Sunday, 9 June 2013 11:14 (ten years ago) link
just saw the QUEEN video <3
― Nhex, Friday, 14 June 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link
RIGHT???
― shoreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 14 June 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link
it's hard to stop rebels that time travel
http://home.insightbb.com/~canadianexpatriates/rolleyesbig.gif
― some dude, Friday, 14 June 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z_c5aqLe6dg/SwSMLeoOvmI/AAAAAAAAMAA/plcIlsy-k7c/s1600/polly.jpg
― shoreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 14 June 2013 07:12 (ten years ago) link
y'all!
http://soundcloud.com/pinboard/q-u-e-e-n-p-remix
> OG
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
agreed, it needed more fun and this helps
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
nice
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
I honestly thought at first that you meant "it needed more fun." and that Nate Ruess dropped a verse on it.
― some dude, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
noooooooooooooo
― Nhex, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah, definitely no.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
jeez
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
something quite (dissapointingly) 90s about the song, the video (though maybe less with the video), and the prince remix. no wonder prince wanted to rework it - it sounds like something he would have made in the 90s with the NPG!
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 27 June 2013 08:59 (ten years ago) link
lmao totally
― some dude, Thursday, 27 June 2013 10:41 (ten years ago) link
maybe, but at least prince's version makes a damn good retro-NPG single
― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
Really wished I liked her...
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Thursday, 27 June 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
another new onehttps://soundcloud.com/atlanticrecords/janelle-mon-e-dance/
― Number None, Friday, 28 June 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
hmmmmmm
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 28 June 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
that sorta reminds me for some reason of girls aloud's "love machine", and it isn't as good as that song
― monotony, Friday, 28 June 2013 23:09 (ten years ago) link
bet awards performance was incredible, totally commanding. she's always great, but in retrospect i can see how it was v. eager to please, and now she can just take charge of a huge room. def going places.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Monday, 1 July 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link
digging the new video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaMBagakSdM
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
not really feeling "Dance Apocalyptic" right now but that video is a ton of fun
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
otoh "Q.U.E.E.N." keeps getting better and better
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
she is perfect fun
― ogmor, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
something about monae's "hey kids let's put on a show" manic mode does not appeal to me.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
I think she's only overacting in the video, she's not that coke fueled normally.
― Moka, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
her vocals are never not bland and manicured though
― some dude, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
Moka, i've seen her live four times; every single show she's that hyper in performance. She bumrushed the crowd the first three times, fourth time the audience was to big to do that i think.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
seems clear the new one will have the same problem the archandroid did, namely the unsatisfactory disparity between mussed-up scenes from a musical and actually listening to it as a record. even individually i love watching the videos and experiencing the craft and whatnot but can't imagine ever feeling the need to own the songs themselves
i mean i guess i'm saying it "works" artistically (ie it's not a problem problem) but the mode of consumption is more like that of buying a glee soundtrack than yr usual music blah
one is doubtless repeating oneself from upthread
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu),
otm
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
my only problem with the her theater-kid mode is that it feels like its defensive, like a way of saying "see I gave the black power fist at the end of my performance, but I sort of didn't because it's _acting_". I'm not sure if it's because she doesn't want to commit fully, or because she thinks other people don't want to hear her commit. But like I said a bit upthread, her performance at the BET awards seemed, for the most part, very commanding and sincere.
And there's something problematic about the cross promotion of this stuff that's obviously supposed to have a v. radical undercurrent with e.g. this target marketing campaign. So maybe the performativity is Monae trying to navigate what she can sell.
But you then have a performance like her anarchic Q.U.E.E.N. on 106th and park where she's like the lost animaniac meets P.I.L. and those concerns only go so far, because she's obviously got this very focused vision of what she's doing as an individual performer, and the fact that she uses this high-concepty stuff to get there starts to seem much less important.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
hard to judge what the new album will be from the singles tho. neither of the archandroid singles really were like the rest of the album.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
clover otm
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I agree with that too. I have COMPLICATED FEELING wrt monae but I am very glad she is making music
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 July 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
WE GOT NEWS
http://pitchfork.com/news/51157-janelle-monae-reveals-electric-lady-tracklist-featuring-prince-miguel-solange-big-boi-plus-album-cover/
WE GOT ALBUM COVER
http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/51157/121d76c1.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
Too many Janelle Monaes! I might die.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
I like that cover
― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
If you don't like that cover you are to be disdained.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
Too many songs.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyjfscsHpG1qbv7alo1_r1_400.png
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
ha
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
17 Sally Rideaskronaut
― we run zings, zings don't run we (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
ayo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_RU-tph-Y
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
ahahahah sorry to put an emo band in the janelle monae thread, wrong youtube link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
i need another cup of coffee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ewB-o5N9A
omg lol
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
anyway this is nice
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
damn
― we run zings, zings don't run we (The Reverend), Monday, 19 August 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
Love the Miguel duet. Like most people I didn't really get into Dance Apocalyptic but this and Q.U.E.E.N give me hope this album will deliver. I really want the album to be as great as the artwork but I'm not sure I should get my hopes up.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
Archanoid delivered and it has a couple of songs that would be incredibly irritating when isolated out of sequence (thinking specifically of the Of Montral song)
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 19 August 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link