Every once in a while, I come across a song that completely transforms my state of mind and state of being in one single, elegant strand of a moment. This song is one of them.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
A cybergirl with a face, a heart and one imaginative mind
Janelle Monae. If you don't know now you know. With songs like this, it's a damn shame that this talented and creative futuristic, cyborg R&B queen is not played on the radio more often. She reminds me of someone straight out of Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time. She is creativity personified.
Her beautiful "Cold War" video caught me by complete surprise. It's very rare that you see an artist's true emotion unveiled like that and it's something that resonates with many people.
On Twitter, Monae interacts with her fans and expresses how touching it is that her slight breakdown caused so many people to really feel her and to feel like she was speaking to them directly. When she posted her reactions via Twitter, of course, the critics were waiting. Critics such as Larry Ryan of The Independent who writes that Monae has "fallen off her tightrope" by tweeting to her fans an essentially "hideously lame display of bogus pyschobabble."
I'm sorry but when does a true musician reaching out to her fanbase and expressing how she feels by the reactions psychobabble? If you ask me, not that you did, so at this point I'm gladly taking the liberty to tell you: Janelle Monae is one of the realest artists out there right now, don't mess it up. Get off of your cynical high horse. Your blurb on how silly Monae's reaction on Twitter was is truly a hideously lame display of psychobabble. Monae is still on that tightrope and she never fell off.
Her beautiful "Cold War" video caught me by complete surprise. It's very rare that you see an artist's true emotion unveiled like that and it's something that resonates with many people.
On Twitter, Monae interacts with her fans and expresses how touching it is that her slight breakdown caused so many people to really feel her and to feel like she was speaking to them directly. When she posted her reactions via Twitter, of course, the critics were waiting. Critics such as Larry Ryan of The Independent who writes that Monae has "fallen off her tightrope" by tweeting to her fans an essentially "hideously lame display of bogus pyschobabble."
I'm sorry but when does a true musician reaching out to her fanbase and expressing how she feels by the reactions psychobabble? If you ask me, not that you did, so at this point I'm gladly taking the liberty to tell you: Janelle Monae is one of the realest artists out there right now, don't mess it up. Get off of your cynical high horse. Your blurb on how silly Monae's reaction on Twitter was is truly a hideously lame display of psychobabble. Monae is still on that tightrope and she never fell off.
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