Janelle Monáe

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• David says
  

  I don’t know what to say! I’m sitting here listening to Track VII: Smile, and I’m reading some stupid article about about PUNK???? I’m sorry, I’m going to report this Metropolis to the very top of the world of music. It’s the most minty fresh, concept album of DIVERSE musical style, with a voice that can send Beyonce AND Jay-Z (what an obscene name for people who are left to GUESS about vowells!) straight to the unemployment line should she ever wind up in the same concert hall as my Monae. Yes, she’s mine. All mine! Hahahaha. Or at least part of her. I paid a good $7 for this damn CD. Watch your MOUTH!!! Shhhhh. Would you stop that! You don’t need mousse, you’re a natural baby…. Who the kluck say “afro-punk” and listed Janelle?? Flippin MO RON!! (Moe Ron Hubbard, I guess.) Some dork writer. He actually calls that science fiction, ha! METROPOLIS!!! That’s freestylin, baby, read it again.

  As I said I’m taking news of this to the TOP of the music world. To Yesfans.com. Their website has been open MUCH longer than metropolis. I am going to annouce that without question PROGRESSIVE ROCK IS ALIVE AGAIN ON THE CHARTS. I will agree this is a new genre. Metropolis blends modeling, rock, science fiction, interactive online RPG, and trippy graphic art in the liner notes into a delicious album the type of which has never been seen. Progressive and creative like I’ve never seen since they launched “Homeworld” the computer game.

  I’m impressed beyond words with Janelle’s appearance in movie theaters in the GAP commercial. Not only is this the ideal politically correct time for her to make a splash on the charts, but the most innocent and chaste of holidays. He voice is more mellifluous that Christina Aguillera and more silky by FAR. That girl is a dirty SKANK next to Janelle.

  Afro Punk? Oh, bulLshIt!! This is Afro PROG. And I’m telling everyone I know on the site. I am “9012–jive” on that site, if you care to poke around at the Masters of Music. I’m going to tell everyone your white tails in the liner note sleeve once belonged to Rick Wakeman and he donated it to the Hard Rock Cafe in Compton, CA and Janelle Monae STOLD IT! That ought to get them all to buy.

  All the best and may the PROG force be with you. Stay innocent and away from Christina Aguillera, you just might make music history. I hear a voice weaker, but just as haunting as Ann Wilson of Heart. Good luck cyborg 57821. I just bought Metropolis and I’m reading your story, won’t you come to Yesfans.com and read mine?

  David

  December 29th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
• David says
  

  New genre, huh? I’m going to call it “Afro-prog.” No matter what anyone thinks. That’s what Wondaland seems like to me, but I’ve over 35 so what do really know about the “punk” scene. Nothing, really. I’m gonna stick with Afro-prog.

  Hey, anyone ever heard of Smitty’s, in Houston, TX? Hwy 288 and Old Spanish Tr. My favorite concert hall, cause I’m part Spanish. Hey, Janelle would be SMASH HIT there. Place has more groove than downtown Atlanta. I’m tellin ya. Friday or Saturday is live music. It’s Sunday that formal night. That’s when no one earth shows up. Just right for a girl from anotha planet! I’m sure if ya call in advance and made an appointment, the answer would be: YES.

  December 31st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
• David says
  

  I am watching the Original Metropolis right now. I have on pause, and just started up Dragon 9.0 so I could exercise my Metropolitan Citizenship dynamically. Praise the Lord for AT&T DSL! What a new Year it is!

  I saw the robot. Before the A6000 model, these “robots” had massive hips!!! Wowsa. I could see right away why Rotwang the Rotweiller suggested a love doll for Fredersen, instead of allowing him to continue to have his jollies with workers’ daughters, like most good Muslims. “We don’t have room for all your “contracted servants.” YES. Rotwang was a genius! Hips, baby!

  And now…. I think I “get” the hairdo. It’s Elvis. It’s just like Maria said in 1927: only Elvis hips can be the mediator between James Brown feet and Etta James voice box. It’s about robot love, isn’t it? That much is clear. And Frederson and his Muslim cohorts want her dismantled! Their numbers are dropping, aren’t they? Those clever devils. They don’t WANT a cure for the ova-sized family. They don’t WANT a cure for infidelity. They is supa-stars! They won’t tolerate any little miserable meetings in the catacombs before some pathetic white-washed splinter of a cross. No, sir. They don’t want to stick to the 1.9 workers per family. No one be tha boss a dem! They wan’t MO workers. MO brothas for Federson, Jr. The “master” of Metropolis, indeed. Sex is NOT overated. Real love and fidelity is not possible without it. But this MYTH of “the hips for baby-makin are makin da bacon…” Well that just ain’t rational, or literate.

  I’d bet the Constitution of the United States against it. It was Thomas Jefferson who once said, “The mighty English! Ha! That Magna Carta might be good enough for George Washington to wipe has ass with, but as for my part, I’m YES FAN. I’m taking the higher road and I’ll refuse to wipe at all! I’ll write a NEW document. The Constitution was created in one fell swoop. Created, like a printing press machine! Not begotten like a farm animal. But pure and sweet like a virgin pearl, straight from the shell. We want the tax dollar, so we’re to do the job right. We don’t answer to Jesus, and we even be accused of blasphemy, but we’ll go to the devil together, as one, with the best Governmental plan on the Globe!”

  I love the Constitution. And I’m so happy citizens of Metropolis are tax payers. Couldn’t be more peachy.

  Literacy: that’s the power that creates Modern Nations. I bet if Christians took that kind of snobbish towards towards the Kook-ranic verses, and the dick-tater that can’t spell it to save his life, we’d all enjoy a little more peace.

  Everyone knows that the REAL brains in Metropolis does the READING for this illiterate dictator. See how he dictates? I’m convinced it’s a thinly veiled allusion for the way Mohammed DICTATED the kook-ranic verses. It’s CLEAR that Metropolis is a Christian film. Maria called meetings before the cross. Maria? Mary? Anyone “getting” this film? Federson throws his workers into the mouth of “Moloch,” wasting them, body, soul, and mind.

  Rotwang is the literate man. He READS. Rotwang has it all figured out. FeHe’s the one to pay attention to. Not all the dull and listless Christian “brothers.” They are extras. The reel star is Rotwang. He’s the only one who got to do a stunt.

  It’s clear to me that when Rotwang fell from the roof, he did NOT die. He broke a leg. That’s showbiz for ya! Wound up in ICU for few weeks. It was touch and go for a while. The workers sued for some Workplace Safety Legislation and Congress passed it in record time. Rotwang downloaded the cybernetic patch from Japan and got busy with model A6000 (”Ms. Jackson,” to the nasty boys) in 1984. Dissatisfied with the Voicebox, Rotwang achieved perfection with the sound circuitry, and announced the new A9000 model. Magnificence! The footwork! The gnarliest problem in the entire robotics industry! Pure Rotwang artistry!

  Fritz Lang is a genius! And so is Thea Von Harbow. “Thea” is greek for “goddess.” I’d have to agree. It all to boils down to text and who wrote this thing. Thea, may you rest in peace. Your novel of the digital age is deeper and more full of allusion and allegory about the problems with mankind than ANY Herman Melville story about sailors and whales and harpoons and so forth. Bold and on target!

  I can’t wait! Metropolis in January. I just went to a New Years party at a Nighclub named Metropolis here in Houston, TX. Saw these old cracker a$$ ladies trying to get the legs and ankles working again and I told them the Good News about the return of the great Von Harbow story set to modern film. They were enthusiastic and this old bird even turned a cartwheel and did a back handspring. I didn’t know 39 year olds still had it!

  Metropolis! BeFORE that jacka$$ Clark Kent moved in and sent the whole business straight to hell. What a boring, boring, idiot. Never cracked a smile. The workers hated him. So did the mediator…. Guess who invented the Kryptonite….. Thea Von Harbow that’s who!

  January 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
• Mollena Williams says
  

  This is next generation Fishbone / Bad Brains / Living Colour and takes back the roots of the music from whence it came. Wow. WOW. What freakin’ rock have I been under that I missed this woman?!?!

  January 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
• j. sims says
  

  Wow, I adore Ms. Monae, but this website is absolutely terrible. I feel very sorry for anyone trying to access it using anything but a superfast connection. You do know that no one cares that you have flash on the peripheral pages, right?

  All I want to know is when the next single/album is coming out! Why can’t this website tell me that? Or what the heck that countdown is actually for?

  January 10th, 2009 at 7:58 am
• Teiana says
  

  Hi I love your music! Glad to see your name on MTV. Though I don’t want them to put you in a box. You are every kinds of music. Keep it up I’m definately getting your album legallyl! God bless.

  January 22nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
• Athena says
  

  Janelle Monae’s music is amazing, i love what she does, it is not only unique but truely artistic and every way. An absolute Masterpiece.

  January 25th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
• I Love Janelle says
  

  Janelle rox! Please hurry the heck up with the next “suite”! The suspense is killing me!

  February 15th, 2009 at 10:40 am
• Obama IS America! says
  

  Yes, Janelle Monae is definitely carving out the Future of music. She is incredible, mind-blowing, beautiful, talented, creative, and has also been featured on the site Obama IS America! as an example of the fact that we are IN the Future NOW: http://obamaisamerica.blogspot.com/search?q=janelle+monae

  Congrats Janelle for all your successes!! And we look forward to your future growth and success!!!

  February 15th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
• dj mijil stylz says
  

  much love & respect i’m ridin with ya hunn till the end!!! keep it thoro Period!!!!!

  March 4th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

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• Sal Colarusso says
  

  Janelle!
  im so proud of you congrats! you are truly my most favorite ever! good luck and i hope you become HUGE! you deserve it.

  December 13th, 2008 at 10:26 am
• Jay Phillips says
  

  I’m so glad to see you’ve made it big! I knew you would. I’m sorry that I never got to hear you perform on stage, besides on the Spun company cruise. Your voice is amazing! I still have the songs from the CD Trey made. Best wishes to you in the new year!

  -Jay

  December 15th, 2008 at 4:44 am
• Jenaye says
  

  I absolutely love Janelle Monae!!!! I need to get her album A.S.A.P!!!

  December 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
• Adalberto McFarlane says
  

  Bravo Janelle! Getting Rolling Stone this early is truly a miracle for most artists, but not for you! I’ve enjoyed you music from you myspace page and will be going to purchase your music at my earliest convience. Your are definitely going by the beat of your own muse my dear, keep it up! Stay original!

  A new fan 4 life

  January 10th, 2009 at 8:40 am

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• Jenaye says
  

  Congratulations!!!! I’m glad you are being recognized for your great music!!! It shows you don’t have to be provocative to get your point across.

  December 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
• Tomi says
  

  OMG that’s amazing! congrats! definitely deserved!

  December 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
• josephine says
  

  I really want her (or kenna) to win this because they deserve it. But is iy judged on how many people attend your concerts or record sales?
  I want to go to her concert and buy her cd when the store restocks it.

  January 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
• PRINCESS KELLY says
  

  THATS SO COOL!!!!!!! She so deserves it. I mean her voice is so unique and there is no one out like her.

  January 5th, 2009 at 10:24 am

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