You'll need to affrm you're mature enough to handle this Janelle Monáe videom which is an unapologetic, and largely disrobed, celebration of sexuality.
Congrats to Jon Batiste, whose "FREEDOM" clip took home Best Music Video — directed by Alan Ferguson and produced by Alex P. Willson — in addition to winning Album Of The Year for We Are at the 2022 Grammys.
A music video that sometimes plays like it's chopped 'n' screwed but mostly plays like one spellbinding and provocatively artful set-up after another one that all seem to revolve around a theme of individuality in a crowd.
Janelle Monáe's "emotion picture" for new album Dirty Computer has launched, incorporating previously released music videos and lots more in a sci-fi magnum opus with lots of heart and bravery.
Who better than Janelle Monae to take the "visual album" mantle from Beyonce with new release Emption Picture and this first clip for "Make Me Feel," which has a definite Prince vibe in both sound and vision.
Obviously you're gonna notice the hair first, but there's much more going on in this almost neo-classical video — one of two, released on the same day by Solange in support of new album A Seat at the Table.
A succession of beautiful shots, some incorporating high fashion and some showcasing landscapes, but all showcasing Solange Knowles at her most confident and transcendent.
The obvious move would have been to shoot at the legendary Electric Lady Studios — and the stickier idea would have been to pay homage to the alternate NSFW Electric Ladyland album art — but Janelle Monae does not do the expected.
I can easily imagine the work of avant-garde audio artists Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu someday occupying a deserved place in a museum. For now, we get this minimilast and classy gallery show, brimming with style and verve as two iconoclasts easily mesh.
