Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer album/film

Holy shit at Screwed! How is that not exciting lyrics?

I love how happy and major-key it all sounds, even though it's obviously coming from a place of fight and frustration.

i can imagine this easily besting her debut but i’ve always thought archandroid was just so fucking long

i'm saying that having never really been into her previous albums beyond the singles though and yeah as Brad says they're so long. so many great tracks on this one and Americans is a fantastic closer especially

I haven’t heard the record yet (not sure where you all heard it) but I pray to god none of it sounds like yoga

She's going for an early '90s Madonnna vibe on "Screwed."

Holy shit at Screwed! How is that not exciting lyrics?

"But I go sex crazy, but I feel so screwed
Sex, body, we're gonna crash your party
Let's get screwed, I don't care
You fucked the world up now, we'll fuck it all back down
Let's get, let's get screwed
I, I don't care
We'll put water in your guns
We'll do it all for fun"

Look, if that's your kind of bag, more power to you! Just looking at the lyrics it could just as well be a Charli XCX track - which usually make for good poppy entertainment, don't get me wrong, but they rarely "excite" me.

ArchAndroid is still my favorite - the length is a feature, not a bug.

i like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uovntV3ZMDc

there's nothing that sounds like Yoga but plenty of tracks that sound very very Prince

nothing that sounds like yoga is a plus

what song is take a byte referencing

I've enjoyed her previous two albums a lot, but they both had things I'd change about them. I'd lose BaBopBye Ya, Mushrooms & Roses and Make The Bus from The ArchAndroid. I'd remove the skits and Dance Apocalyptic from Electric Lady. My first impression is that there's nothing I'd change about Dirty Computer. She's finally made that concise masterpiece I knew she had in her. The way the songs flow into each other is just stunning.

'I live my life in a magazine
I live my life on a TV screen
I live my life on birth control
I lost my mind to rock and roll'

A lot of the lyrics are like this, 75% klichés, but those last 25% makes the whole thing come alive.

it would be nice if the film was included in the download or at an additional price, but it's not

same thing with ionnalee's record - not sure why they don't just do what beyonce did with lemonade and bundle it

i'm assuming views on youtube are more important

god this rules

I feel like it’s gonna take me a few listens to get into it, but of the non-singles “Crazy, Classic, Life” and “Americans” are the most immediately striking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE

here's the film!

album slays

it's lithe!

"Don't Judge Me" is magnificent

Love this album

Damm love how much of her gospel upbringing she brings into this

film is good too, all the videos for the songs are great

"americans" is the only hat-tip toward archandroid/electric lady on this record i think

it's also real good

man, and it feels so much less fussy; it's got a grace to it.

don't judge me sounds like electric lady to me

oh yeah that's not wrong

"Stevie's Dream"!

Even though I only really liked one pre-release track out of four, I listened to the whole thing front to back this morning. The only thing that really surprised me was the prog synth on "So Afraid." The album's good and all, and the advance tracks I thought were bland worked a little better in the context of the album (meanwhile, the one I liked a lot kinda got shoved down to the level of everything else), but it's good in an earnest, try-hard, theater-kid-who-likes-Prince way, like everything else she's done. I don't think I'll be listening to it again. On the other hand, it's made me want to pull out Erykah Badu's New Amerykah albums again. So there's that.

i'm addicted to this record

love the TLC reference to crazy,sexy cool

juice sounds like hollaback girl

and love that killer stevie wonder esque synth on i'm afraid

Album good, song good, bought tickets.

This album rules, much like her other albums

I like it when "Screwed" shifts into slow jam mode

"and love that killer stevie wonder esque synth on i'm afraid"

I saw a mention that this might actually be him? not sure.

anyway I think this is probably her best album, improved immensely by the absence of skits, which I hate.

This is clearly the record of the summer if not the year

The film is decent, but I'm not sure I needed these (frequently awesome) videos with an underfed Handmaid's Tale wraparound narrative.

bummer "so afraid" doesn't appear in the film at all

akm - sounds like him

the film's OK but it neglects so much of the album it doesn't feel too relevant to the record

the ionnalee film this year excelled in merging the clips with the album but this seems like an afterthought

the film looks good but it doesn't do a good job in filling in the story

this album seems disconnected from the last two narrative wise

but the video just sells beautiful images and scenes without a lot of conviction narrative wise

This is clearly destined to win pazz & jop and lose all the grammies to Taylor Swift.

It's almost as if we've become spoiled with political pop these last few years, but wow, take a step back and consider how incredible the existence of something like 'Americans' is.

Virtually every second of this is a delight, and when I got to the end of Americans I felt like applauding.

Americans is great, ain’t gonna lie it made me tear up

Virtually every second of this is a delight

― Matt DC, Saturday, April 28, 2018 3:35 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

undelightful seconds of this record occupied by pharrell

Well -intentioned , sometimes great but flawed. HerPrince homages are too studied.

I haven't even heard the Pharrell track because I'm scared.

xp taylor swift's album will definitely not be grammybait

excited to listen to this + watch the film!

I love how smoothly this flows from one track to the next.