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.
Archival footage, current news clips and a performance by an energized Janelle Monáe make up the bulk of this tie-in to Amazon doc ALL IN: The Fight For Democracy.
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.
When you've got Nile Rodgers and Janelle Monae joining Duran Duran to launch their first album in five years, there's no reason not to keep things as simple and stylish as this.
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.
It may seem like Janelle Monae has let her hair down and delivered a straight-up performance — albeit a bouyant and off-kilter one, in the vein of "Hey Ya" — but then things cut away to a breaking news story about the Dance Apocalypse.
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.