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Friday, August 22, 2008
Tonight! Janelle Monae - Tonight!
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Diddy dropped the ball. Janelle Monae--the only decent act on the sinking ship that is Bad Boy Entertainment (sorry, Danity Kane)--got lost in the mainstream pop music shuffle and, thus, suffered from sub-par promotion for her debut LP, the absolutely ridiculous Metropolis: The Chase Suite. Originally released on a smaller scale last year--and then rescued and nursed by the golden bosom of Sir Diddy--the album was re-released earlier this month and is supposed to be one of four in a futuristic series, all of which are influenced by Fritz Lang's 1927 science-fiction film, Metropolis.
Let's hope that's the last time Puff and Fritz Lang share a sentence.
Monae's blistering cyborg funk is best described as the fairer gendered Andre 3000, an artist on the cusp of some redonkulous pop music vision that mere mortals like myself can't possibly grasp. She's gotten endorsements from the aforementioned Andre Benjamin (she was in Idlewild, the lackluster movie, not the lackluster band), Erykah Badu, and even received a tiny thumbs-up (he's got petite hands, ain't no crime in that) from Prince himself. Of course, none of that explains why she is playing a last-minute gig at Doug Fir tonight at 6 pm, but I have the sneaking suspicion next time her alien spaceship (Funkadelic is jealous) lands here in town, she'll be playing a larger venue at a later hour. Catch her now, or risk being swallowed whole by the regret of missing tomorrow's pop star today.
LISTEN:
Janelle Monae - "Violet Stars Happy Hunting!!!"
Janelle Monae - "Many Moons"
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