Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
She's a lesbian...
...plus the "woke" crowd likes her, along with white people (liberals).
She's like John Legend w/o the hits.
Yep.
Came in to say she chews bizzox, and that's hot in dem skrizzeets.
She's a lesbian...
...plus the "woke" crowd likes her, along with white people (liberals).
She's like John Legend w/o the hits.
A lot of the artists I listen to these days still do that.She had a whole team she doesn’t down play them at all .
They write on each other stuff .
They actually compose the music and record live .
Just like the old days who the fukk is still doing that .
Man I remember watching the making of arch android I was amazed at how they came up with stuff .
Yea against those contemporaries she does seem less astonishing .A lot of the artists I listen to these days still do that.
They're mainly Jazz musicians with a smattering of Black musicians who play Blues, R&B, Neo-soul etc.
Janelle is great however when it comes to her approach to recording, I don't think she's unique in that regard.
Her musical brilliance IMO against someone like Kamasi Washington or Robert Glasper is put into perspective.
Even against female contemporaries like Esperanza Spalding, Somi or Goapele, Janelle seems less astonishing.
I mean when she's up against the Tinashe's of the world of course she'd look incredible and wide ranging but that
speaks volumes about where Black Pop vs. where it used to be.
Love is love.Naw far from
you a actually a good /decent poster from what I remember .. do you though ..
I always wondered this. She’s on every award show performing some song I don’t like![]()
Her 4th album yoShe’s on her 4th album and the latest one is the worst out of her albums IMO. She been dope since the beginning that is all
I can read through the rest of this thread later. Let cut to the nitty gritty.
Q: Is she talented?
A: Yes, definitely
Q: Is she unique?
A: For sure.
Q: Why doesn't she sell records?
A: Her music isn't that good. She cant write a song to save her life. She's so hung up on her cockamamie ass "concepts" and statements that she forgets the number one rule of music: It gotta be jammin. Period.
Q: Why is she so popular then?
A: Because she's safe. In a few ways.
She's the artist you say you like in order to look cultured, not because you actually like her music.
Erykah Badu was what Janelle Monae is supposed to be. She's supposed to be Erykah's and Lauryn's successor.
The reason why Erykah was successful is the same reason why her career is quiet now. Erykah really is a weirdo.
She's gotten much weirder as she's aged. By the time she's a senior citizen, she's gonna look like Sun Ra.
Janelle Monae is posing. She would never pull the Window Seat stunt.
Janelle talks that good shyt but it's not believable. She's too little, too pretty, too uptight, too mousy. She got no edge.
Lauryn Hill was also tiny and very pretty, but 1) her album was jammin as fukk and 2) Lauryn has a serious edge to her personality (which allows her to bully people).
So by cacs having JM around as a mascot (the same with Common, John Legend, or Chance), what they're doing is trying to pass themselves off as deep, cultured, intelligent, empathetic, well-rounded, soulful and un cac-like.
The reality is that those people I named talk good shyt, but they don't scare cacs. They, in fact, make them comfortable to the point of feeling good about themselves.
It's much easier to talk about how men aint shyt for JM, than to talk about how cacs aint shyt.
It's much easier for Common too coo about "lahhvve" than to take enemies of love to task.
It's much easier for John Legend to skin and grin than to sing the grimy and aggressive John Stephens shyt about checkin nikkas about they bytch and being a full on proponent of having side hoes.
Janelle Monae checks boxes for those who run the glamor industry, and as long as she's happy with that you'll keep on seeing her everywhere.
She's pretty, she's woke, she's stylish, but she's not really gonna offend anybody.