Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer album/film

I heard this for the first time at the weekend and had to go hunting for what it was later, thought it might be her but wasn't sure. Think it's terrific, who cares if it sounds like 'Kiss'? The vocal line in the bridge is what really makes it, and that's new.

I’m sorry but I think it’s terrible...kinda has the same effect on me as Uptown Funk...leaves me cold...can’t hear the Kiss comparisons either...

c'mon

I'm not a fan either, but it's clearly heavily indebted to Kiss

It might be but I haven’t been able to get to the end...

so is this going to be a lock for pazz & jop #1 once it becomes her first mainstream hit? lol

Well Carly Rae Jepsen does have a new album planned for this year...

That's ILM's #1

Maybe we'll see a tie.

like Django Jane

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

collab with grimes(?), really great i think

I don't love it. So far "Make Me Feel" is the only single from this record that's really worked for me. It's the guitars that ruin it.

But it could have been worse.

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

thanks for that

it's like red but not quite

I like this one a lot.

Well as much as I like this new song, it certainly doesn't extenuate the critique heliogabberlus offered up-thread.

I like the song, but the video is a masterpiece of queer art.

This is fantastic, and the vid is A+++ too <3

This is my least favorite of the new ones, a little too cutesy for me.

videos are all better than the songs, which makes sense i guess

this is so great

just read a funny Grace Jones dis of JM that i'll link later if i'm really bored

Video is A+ but something about the car/boulevard line that makes me think of Rebecca Black's "Friday".

lol Aerosmith got writing credits for this

the song isn't great tbh

but all for this further-out-and-prouder vibe

Ha ha, holy shit, I had no idea it was actually borrowed from the Aerosmith song. I just heard the similarities and made the joke.

surely that's a "getting ahead of ourselves" song credit. the verse melodies aren't dissimilar

The vocal line in the bridge is what really makes it, and that's new.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 5:03 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly! The "little bit of tender" line is one of the most awesome uses of a descending chromatic scale since the Yes song "Then" from "Time and a Word".

I hope Janelle and Tessa never announce they're dating and just keep making more elaborate music videos until they accidentally shoot Jodorosky's Dune

— rachel jane andelman (@rajandelman) April 11, 2018

^
Gets it

I would be ok with hearing this everywhere this summer.

This song is super easy breezy

Love it

I am going back and looking at the video for Make Me Feel and holy holy, JM is such perfection.

maura otm xposts ago. I was wearing peach shorts.

On relistening aside from Django Jane these two other singles are mediocre imo

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

this one's not on the same level as Make Me Feel or Pynk but still very nice

Yeah, this song just sounds like the bridge between two better songs on the album.

(I don't know for sure that it is, but I hope it is.)

Arch android is still her best work but I remain optimistic

i like that

into it

this is my favourite one from this campaign so far - understated and sexy

"pynk" is by far the best of these to me... the verses feel a little too understated to me which i assume is intentional given the chorus, but the payoff is really there i think

the understatement really works with the lyrics imo. i like how the chorus guitar feels p breezy indie-pop-ish the first time but when it returns in the next chorus it becomes feels v different tonally in the more filled-up mix despite not changing itself

Dawn Richard covered/remixed "Pynk": https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dark-pynk-cover

^you'd have thought that would have broken ILM :)

Janelle likes it anyway: https://www.stereogum.com/1992145/janelle-monae-pynk-d∆wn-remix/music/

it's nice!

Thinking on holding out until the film now _ might make sense of these tracks

Dawn version kills it

But part of the reason she was slow to return, she told me, is that her mentor, Prince, died unexpectedly. They were working together closely on what would become “Dirty Computer.” “This was the person that I would literally call and talk to about sounds or: ‘How should I say this? Is this saying too much?’ I just never could imagine a time where I couldn’t pick up the phone or email him, and he’d contact me right back and we’d talk about all these things that I was unsure of.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/magazine/how-janelle-monae-found-her-voice.html?action=click&contentCollection=Music&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Yes! Saw those. I think they first aired the night I was seeing her live

Anyone read this?

https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/the-memory-librarian

back with some slightly reggae-ish afrobeat-trap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xf28VXMB2w
Janelle Monáe feat. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 • Float

really underwhelming

Yeah I got really excited at the prospect of Janelle Monae doing afrobeat when I saw the artwork and Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 involved but then the actual song isn’t really interesting.