Author Topic: JANELLE MONAE'S THE ELECTRIC LADY OUT NOW - album of the year :bow (Read 14310 times)

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #180 on:** September 12, 2013, 05:19:46 PM »

I am the ELECTRIC LADY and I AM YOUR MORNING COFFEE

Himu · « **Reply #181 on:** September 12, 2013, 05:20:44 PM »

I wish I could be her.

Beezy · « **Reply #182 on:** September 13, 2013, 06:29:56 AM »

Wrath, see her perform live if you ever get a chance. That's what made me really fall in love with her.

Himu · « **Reply #183 on:** September 13, 2013, 03:44:12 PM »

Get tix breh

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #184 on:** September 13, 2013, 04:26:57 PM »

Both the Tightrope and QUEEN music videos are fucking ace.

When I saw Tightrope I was convinced we had our generation's MJ.

Himu · « **Reply #185 on:** September 14, 2013, 12:39:07 PM »

She discusses her influences in this video

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #186 on:** September 15, 2013, 04:41:11 PM »

love it

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #187 on:** September 17, 2013, 03:40:22 AM »

her performance at the iTunes Festival (free on the iTunes store to watch entirely) is

BRILLIANT.

Beezy · « **Reply #188 on:** October 10, 2013, 09:46:13 PM »

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #189 on:** October 10, 2013, 10:19:03 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 11, 2013, 07:06:39 PM

Quote from: Formerly Known As Himuro on September 11, 2013, 07:00:17 PM
Unfortunately I don't think that number will increase greatly without a big hit or a more stable schedule of releases. She's not Gaga or some other big time pop star, I don't think she can afford to put out one album every three years.

She makes her money on the road, not with albums. That applies to most people though.

She'll be fine. I don't think her album has anything on it that can get radio play but she's capable of making a radio song.

True, most artists don't make that much money from album sales especially if they aren't also writing their own songs.

I think low record sales might have an impact on an artist in terms of how much money they get for producing an album

Fiona Apple said Extraordinary Machine took an extra two years to finish because Sony wouldn't give her the money to redo the album with a new producer

Btw, I just caught Fiona's show last weekened and it was amazing. You should see it if you can.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #190 on:** October 10, 2013, 10:35:57 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on October 10, 2013, 09:46:13 PM

great video. she looks so beautiful in it

Positive Touch · « **Reply #191 on:** October 10, 2013, 11:24:30 PM »

great vid for one of my favorite songs on the album

Beezy · « **Reply #192 on:** October 10, 2013, 11:38:27 PM »

I finally pulled the trigger on tickets for her show at Apollo Theater on the 18th of this month. Can't wait. I haven't seen her live in over a year. Hopefully she brings Solange out for a song or something since she lives right there in Brooklyn.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #193 on:** October 10, 2013, 11:52:52 PM »

Tickets are still available for her LA show

I'd go for sure if the tickets weren't just general admission. I just hate standing in a GA pit with a bunch of smelly people.
Also, I'd have to show up 2 hours early for a decent view.

TEEEPO · « **Reply #194 on:** October 10, 2013, 11:54:44 PM »

i havn't liked any of the prior singles but that's a pretty cool song.

maybe i should illegally download her album.

Beezy · « **Reply #195 on:** October 19, 2013, 12:59:20 AM »

What an experience indeed!

Beezy · « **Reply #196 on:** October 19, 2013, 09:52:28 AM »

http://instagram.com/p/foZRn2l0h-/

http://instagram.com/p/foZcH-KpEc/

Easily the best and most fun performance I've seen from her up to this point. Not exaggerating when I say that she had complete control of the crowd. She got off stage at one point and slowly walked through the aisles alone without any bodyguards or Wondaland members.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #197 on:** October 19, 2013, 10:27:13 AM »

Diunx · « **Reply #198 on:** October 20, 2013, 03:12:50 PM »

The Electric Lady gained a new fan thanks to this thread

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #199 on:** October 31, 2013, 01:47:47 AM »

Just saw her live in PDX at the Roseland. Absolutely mindblowing performance. There is no one else who can touch her right now.

Except I did!

I helped her crowdsurf

, held her up by her stomach. Of course she didn't need much since she's like 5'4'' and 120.

Beezy · « **Reply #200 on:** October 31, 2013, 09:21:52 AM »

Does she have abs?

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #201 on:** October 31, 2013, 04:42:52 PM »

I think a little bit, but not defined. She has a pretty flat stomach.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #202 on:** October 31, 2013, 05:16:25 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on October 31, 2013, 09:21:52 AM

Does she have abs?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #203 on:** October 31, 2013, 05:30:04 PM »

Beezy takes the robot stuff seriously.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #204 on:** October 31, 2013, 06:15:43 PM »

I saw her last night too, pretty cool

chronovore · « **Reply #205 on:** October 31, 2013, 06:39:57 PM »

Quote from: Diunx on October 20, 2013, 03:12:50 PM

The Electric Lady gained a new fan thanks to this thread

.

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #206 on:** October 31, 2013, 07:25:33 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on October 19, 2013, 09:52:28 AM

http://instagram.com/p/foZRn2l0h-/

http://instagram.com/p/foZcH-KpEc/

Easily the best and most fun performance I've seen from her up to this point. Not exaggerating when I say that she had complete control of the crowd. She got off stage at one point and slowly walked through the aisles alone without any bodyguards or Wondaland members.

I was gonna say this is totally part of the Come Alive (War of the Roses) performance. My favorite part is when the whole band wakes up and we just get fucking crazy with it!

This one fat guy refused to get low during the performance, and she just stood there and adorably pouted in a faux-annoyed way. He just stood there and took a picture with his phone

Beezy · « **Reply #207 on:** October 31, 2013, 08:38:51 PM »

Quote from: ZephyrFate on October 31, 2013, 07:25:33 PM

This one fat guy refused to get low during the performance, and she just stood there and adorably pouted in a faux-annoyed way. He just stood there and took a picture with his phone

Himu · « **Reply #208 on:** November 13, 2013, 04:55:12 PM »

Going to her concert tonight.

Himu · « **Reply #209 on:** November 14, 2013, 01:44:29 AM »

Positive Touch · « **Reply #210 on:** November 14, 2013, 07:33:55 AM »

:'( :'( :'( so jealous

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #211 on:** November 14, 2013, 02:27:03 PM »

you really should have asked her how she got her skin so soft mid-crowdsurf

Himu · « **Reply #212 on:** November 14, 2013, 02:29:09 PM »

i should send her a tweet

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #213 on:** November 15, 2013, 02:55:32 AM »

do it if she responds I will send you a starbucks gift card over FB

Beezy · « **Reply #214 on:** December 21, 2013, 10:16:19 AM »

http://instagram.com/p/iK8Wu5n_s7/

She needs to be my wife.

Beezy · « **Reply #215 on:** January 10, 2014, 11:37:05 PM »

For any of you NYers living in or near the Bronx: http://t.co/kWGZnl2F4P

Free Janelle Monae performance at my old school, Lehman College, courtesy of VH1 and the Super Bowl. January 28th. Of course I already secured my tickets.

She also has a show (not free) on February 1st at Hammerstein in the city: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Janelle-Monae-tickets/artist/1216463

Eric P · « **Reply #216 on:** January 11, 2014, 12:49:02 AM »

wait. TLC?

Beezy · « **Reply #217 on:** January 11, 2014, 01:19:12 AM »

Eric P · « **Reply #218 on:** February 18, 2014, 10:38:43 AM »

So this album made it to the Tiptree Award Honor List. I don't know how often music makes it to this list.

§ Janelle Monae, Electric Lady (Bad Boy Records 2013) — Janelle Monae’s lastest album is a musical work of science fiction, the latest installment in the conceptually rich world of Cindi Mayweather, a prototype android. A cross-medium Afrofuturist fable, loosely inspired by Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis, Electric Lady has dramatic scope, powered by magnetic waves of sound and rhythm.

Was this somewhat foreshadowed by Time's album review?

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/11/the-shining-pop-future-of-janelle-monaes-the-electric-lady/

Throughout the 1970s, Alice Sheldon wrote stunning science fiction under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr.. Stories like “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” and “The Women Men Don’t See” dealt not only with aliens, but also with female alienation and gender politics, both in the present and the future. Sheldon explained the subterfuge in a 1983 profile with Asimov’s Science Fiction: “A male name seemed like good camouflage. I had the feeling that a man would slip by less observed.” In order to get the attention that her ideas deserved, she chose a man’s name, knowing that the fact that she was a woman would dominate the discussion or even be cause for dismissal outright. Decades later, Janelle Monáe is working some of these same topics of conversation into the world of pop music.

Eric P · « **Reply #219 on:** March 31, 2014, 09:34:11 AM »

attention NY bore.

"There will be a FREE Janelle Monae show in Brooklyn on June 4! Ms. Monae opens the Celebrate Brooklyn! show series at Prospect Park.
Info: "The 36th season of BRIC’s beloved performing arts festival kicks-off in intergalactic style with a free concert for the ages. Janelle Monáe has declared herself, over the course of one EP [Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase), 2007] and two critically acclaimed concept albums (The ArchAndroid, 2010 and The Electric Lady, 2013), as the most original pop voice of her generation: at once futuristic, retro, and totally of the moment. Protégé of Big Boi, signed to Bad Boy, and the founder of her own Wondaland Art Society, She is an unstoppable creative force". Show starts at 8pm, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215."

Beezy · « **Reply #220 on:** March 31, 2014, 02:14:31 PM »

Do I need to rsvp somewhere?

Eric P · « **Reply #221 on:** March 31, 2014, 03:01:38 PM »

I don't believe so. the link doesn't mention it

http://bricartsmedia.org/events/janelle-monae

Himu · « **Reply #222 on:** March 31, 2014, 03:10:36 PM »

get fucked new yorkers

Himu · « **Reply #223 on:** March 31, 2014, 03:32:27 PM »

PD doesn't date trans women.

Eric P · « **Reply #224 on:** April 02, 2014, 09:44:42 AM »

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/apr/02/janelle-monae-interview-david-bowie-prince

Quote

Hi, Janelle!

Hey, darlin', how are you?

Fine, thanks. Where are you?

I am in a cave, in Mexico.

How come?

I am basically eating and praying.

What does your prayer involve?

That this Pepsi campaign (1) becomes the biggest campaign ever.

it's pretty impressive that she's become a large enough star that she's now in her own pepsi commercial

Himu · « **Reply #225 on:** April 02, 2014, 09:47:58 AM »

Please be my best friend Janelle

Diunx · « **Reply #226 on:** April 03, 2014, 01:26:43 AM »

Young Bowie would be all over Janelle's sweet chocolate ass

Himu · « **Reply #227 on:** April 03, 2014, 01:30:38 AM »

Naw. She likes carpet.

Diunx · « **Reply #228 on:** April 03, 2014, 01:34:00 AM »

Bowie got it covered

Beezy · « **Reply #229 on:** April 03, 2014, 02:32:18 AM »

Quote from: Formerly Known As Himuro on April 03, 2014, 01:30:38 AM

Naw. She likes carpet.

says who

Himu · « **Reply #230 on:** April 03, 2014, 02:46:06 AM »

my gaydar

Beezy · « **Reply #231 on:** April 03, 2014, 02:50:49 AM »

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #232 on:** April 03, 2014, 03:11:42 AM »

She's had two boyfriends already bro. She been dicked. J. Monae likes boys.

and girls, too, probably

Himu · « **Reply #233 on:** May 27, 2014, 11:56:30 PM »

omg

http://pitchfork.com/news/55345-dave-chappelle-announces-radio-city-music-hall-shows-with-the-roots-janelle-monae-erykah-badu/

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #234 on:** May 28, 2014, 12:39:33 AM »

omggmmggmgmgmdgsmgmsagm

Raban · « **Reply #235 on:** May 28, 2014, 12:49:23 AM »

this is bittersweet news considering this event won't also be attached to another Michael Gondry film :'(

Beezy · « **Reply #236 on:** May 28, 2014, 02:19:23 AM »

I wish Badu and Monae were on the same day.

Eric P · « **Reply #237 on:** May 30, 2014, 05:27:15 PM »

just a reminder, new york, that she's playing for free next wed at prospect park bandshell
show is at 8, but gates open at 6:30

ZephyrFate · « **Reply #238 on:** July 30, 2014, 03:32:53 PM »

ELECTRIC LADY VIDEO

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Himu · « **Reply #239 on:** July 30, 2014, 03:33:54 PM »

News:

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