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 (five years ago) link
damn! ^
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 20:40 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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
it's a disappointment to me. the songs we've heard so far are the best of the bunch and a lot of the other tracks aren't terribly exciting, music-wise or lyrically. Half of the record feels like the generic filler-material on a pop record right now.But that's just my opinion, maybe it'll appeal to y'all more. Hopefully it'll grow on me, maybe.
― fragglerock, Thursday, 26 April 2018 09:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
i can imagine this easily besting her debut but i’ve always thought archandroid was just so fucking long
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 April 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 26 April 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
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
― done and dusted (Ross), Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
She's going for an early '90s Madonnna vibe on "Screwed."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
"But I go sex crazy, but I feel so screwedSex, body, we're gonna crash your partyLet's get screwed, I don't careYou fucked the world up now, we'll fuck it all back downLet's get, let's get screwedI, I don't careWe'll put water in your gunsWe'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.
― fragglerock, Thursday, 26 April 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 27 April 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uovntV3ZMDc
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 27 April 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
there's nothing that sounds like Yoga but plenty of tracks that sound very very Prince
― ufo, Friday, 27 April 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
nothing that sounds like yoga is a plus
― dyl, Friday, 27 April 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
what song is take a byte referencing
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 27 April 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Friday, 27 April 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link
'I live my life in a magazineI live my life on a TV screenI live my life on birth controlI 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.
― Frederik B, Friday, 27 April 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
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
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 27 April 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
i'm assuming views on youtube are more important
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 27 April 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
god this rules
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Friday, 27 April 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link