Janelle Monae Sucks
- Thread starter MikeBrownsJob
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the kid
Real Esquire, Not the Magazine
It was just an observation breh, but I have multiple times and it's mostly in Left Field
The drums on this.
She's currently working with members of the Black Keys
Gonna check this out when i get outta this CLE. But instead of making a thread on Janelle, u shoulda just made a thread on this music u dig.
Drew Wonder
Superstar
another coli poster speaking with authority on something he knows nothing about. shyt is hilarious. it's like ya'll can't humble yourselves for one moment and refrain from sharing your opinion on something that you have no knowledge of
I think you're seeing it exactly the wrong way. Her first release was a concept EP... nobody does those. That means it was planned from beginning to end to reflect thematic continuity. So was the first album. There's not only a great deal of continuity in her music in terms of her backing band, the lyrics, the structure of the releases, but also in overall vision. The problem with pop music today (and she is a pop artist, just like Prince and MJ are pop artists) is that it's become so homogenous (and this is actually a scientific fact, thanks to that massive study on the topic) that people can't handle real diversity, the way it used to be done on the albums of artists like the aforementioned. The ArchAndroid, especially, draws from all over the place in exactly the same way as great albums from the past. If you listen from start to finish a few times it'll make sense.
Honestly, to me, some of the stuff you've posted in this thread, like Christian Scott, is much more derivative and lacking in identity than her work (which is not to say it's bad.)
As for London Calling, that whole album has each song in a different genre- from reggae, to rockabilly, to folk, to more traditional punk. If you can get down with that album, and understand why it's considered a classic from front to back, there's no reason to not be able to see the same quality of unity in diversity in Janelle's releases.
Drew Wonder
Superstar
It was just an observation breh, but I have multiple times and it's mostly in Left Field
She's currently working with members of the Black Keys
I see you bruh. You're mad because Janelle is getting the love you wish the more obscure artists you stan could get. I can't blame you for the thread title though. "Janelle Monae sucks" will get a lot more views than "Christian Scott appreciation thread"
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
Smitty Belafonte
All Star
She cute as a Rabbits nose but her music and dancing sucks. Yeah I said it.
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
I see you bruh. You're mad because Janelle is getting the love you wish the more obscure artists you stan could get. I can't blame you for the thread title though. "Janelle Monae sucks" will get a lot more views than "Christian Scott appreciation thread"
if that was the case I would have clowned Nasir 
. I don't give two shyts about musicians I listen to being popular or not breh. I'm not a hardcore rap fan 
@The Real on my phone but I'll respond a lil later. Read the thread though. I acknowledged her talent but poor execution.
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Ivan Trillwater.
This dikk ain't freeeee
The Electric Lady is an great album. Her style and dancing is ehh but I could care less about that, she make some good music.
I fukked with the album, so much throwback greatness.
IDK what nikkas was posting in that other thread but shiiii, this project is dope.
I WOULD like to see her kind of create a "smaller zone" and keep her music a little more tightly-made and crafted. Her albums do get a little too out-reaching with the genre blending, and lose a cohesive feel sonically. The themes in her projects have always been executed well and continued on with relative ease, but the music is another thing. I still enjoy it, but imagine if she just tapped into a 2 or 3 styles and expounded on them greatly.
IDK what nikkas was posting in that other thread but shiiii, this project is dope.
I WOULD like to see her kind of create a "smaller zone" and keep her music a little more tightly-made and crafted. Her albums do get a little too out-reaching with the genre blending, and lose a cohesive feel sonically. The themes in her projects have always been executed well and continued on with relative ease, but the music is another thing. I still enjoy it, but imagine if she just tapped into a 2 or 3 styles and expounded on them greatly.
In Search Of.. and it's not even close. Seeing Sounds went too experimental. I enjoyed it but it could have been better if it weren't all over the place.
You're just a "different" type person. I see that now
:Bryan:.. I'm sure I was the only person who drove to work this morning listening to the Cinematic Orchestra. That's the problem on this board. If you don't like drake you are a Kendrick Stan. If you like drake you can't like Kendrick or Cole. Lol now cause I've said Janelle monae is trash I must listen to Ciara who isn't even a bad artist...i just pulled up at a light and a chick was bumping Ciara lol. Don't nobody listen to no fukking Janelle monae. She was marketed as the female prince whatever that means and she just doesn't make good music. It's all over the place with no direction.
I DVR'd her performance on Jools Holland last night .....he had a group of performers each performing one song........Cee Lo Green performing "fukk You", Steve Miller Band performing a song, and then Janaelle came next and she was performing "Tightrope" from her last album....there were 2 other bands after her but i turned it off after that
Anyway, I had mixed feelings about her performance, she got the most applause by far out of the two before her but you could still tell the audience although amazed was feeling the same way I probably felt and you probably feel....It is hard to put into words but something seems "off"...
Especially when she did that whole over the top "let me randomly jump every time on the ground when my song is finished" thing she has been doing lately
by the way man i really like your diverse eclectic taste in music....it seems everytime you are mentioning someone i have not heard of and make me step my game up ...starting with cinematic orchestra can you PM me a list of artists under the radar
ogc163
Superstar
She sucks, I have listened to her music and nothing at all made me say "wow". Her handlers are using the same pretentious "but she's so different and unique" angle that Joey Bada$$ handlers have used on the Hip-Hop side.
