like Django Jane
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 24 March 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaYvlVR_BEc
collab with grimes(?), really great i think
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
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
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
thanks for that
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
it's like red but not quite
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
I like this one a lot.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
Well as much as I like this new song, it certainly doesn't extenuate the critique heliogabberlus offered up-thread.
― fragglerock, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
I like the song, but the video is a masterpiece of queer art.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
This is fantastic, and the vid is A+++ too <3
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
This is my least favorite of the new ones, a little too cutesy for me.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
videos are all better than the songs, which makes sense i guess
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
this is so great
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
just read a funny Grace Jones dis of JM that i'll link later if i'm really bored
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
Video is A+ but something about the car/boulevard line that makes me think of Rebecca Black's "Friday".
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
lol Aerosmith got writing credits for this
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
the song isn't great tbh
― imago, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
but all for this further-out-and-prouder vibe
― imago, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
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.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
surely that's a "getting ahead of ourselves" song credit. the verse melodies aren't dissimilar
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
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".
― Prefecture, Friday, 13 April 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
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
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 13 April 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
I would be ok with hearing this everywhere this summer.
― Yerac, Friday, 13 April 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
This song is super easy breezy
Love it
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 13 April 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
I am going back and looking at the video for Make Me Feel and holy holy, JM is such perfection.
― Yerac, Friday, 13 April 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
maura otm xposts ago. I was wearing peach shorts.
― Yerac, Friday, 13 April 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
On relistening aside from Django Jane these two other singles are mediocre imo
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Saturday, 14 April 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
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
― ufo, Monday, 16 April 2018 06:45 (six years ago) link
Yeah, this song just sounds like the bridge between two better songs on the album.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 April 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
(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
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Monday, 16 April 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
i like that
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 16 April 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
into it
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Monday, 16 April 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
this is my favourite one from this campaign so far - understated and sexy
― boxedjoy, Monday, 16 April 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
"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
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 April 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
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
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 16 April 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
Dawn Richard covered/remixed "Pynk": https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dark-pynk-cover
― monotony, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
^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/
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
it's nice!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
Thinking on holding out until the film now _ might make sense of these tracks
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
Dawn version kills it
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Thursday, 19 April 2018 07:02 (six years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 April 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
<3 Janelle
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Thursday, 19 April 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
For my fANDROIDS, friends, & fam who have supported from day 1, the broadcast premiere of #DIRTYCOMPUTER (the emotion picture) starring the brilliant @TessaThompson_x will air Thurs 4.26 on @MTV & @BET! Check your local listings for times. #DirtyComputer (album) out Fri 4.27 ! pic.twitter.com/JoxDySSgrf— Janelle Monáe, Cindi (@JanelleMonae) April 20, 2018
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
damn! ^
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
rumoured tracklist
1. Dirty Computer (feat. Brian Wilson) 2. Crazy, Classic, Life 3. Take a Byte 4. Pussy Poppin’ (feat. Kamasi Washington) 5. Screwed (feat. Zoë Kravitz) 6. Django Jane 7. Pynk (feat. Grimes) 8. Make Me Feel 9. I Got the Juice (feat. Pharrell Williams) 10. I Like That 11. Don't Judge Me 12. Stevie's Dream 13. So Afraid 14. Americans
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
I got Zoe Kravitz mixed up with Nina Kraviz when I first read this and got really intrigued
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
I really hope Wilson's contribution to the first track is just him mumbling "What's for lunch?...I like ice cream...Are we done...Can I go home now?...My favorite movie is Norbit..."
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
same here josh, followed by a "meh" in my case
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
i love this album! easily my favourite of hers
― ufo, Thursday, 26 April 2018 06:57 (five years ago) link
really ufo? can't imagine this being better than her debut which was one of the best debuts in my mind
― done and dusted (Ross), Thursday, 26 April 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link