Janelle Monáe
Earlier this week, a couple of my favourite music bloggers, Mike and Marcello, were tweeting about Janelle Monáe. By the wonders of the internet, within minutes I was listening to her entire back catalogue and ordering her rather wonderful new CD, The ArchAndroid, from Amazon. It’s a varied smorgasbord of modern soul sounds that makes the new Prince cd (good as it is, well worth all 65P I paid) sound dated. Here’s a track from it, plus an obscure non-CD trailer that was presumably released to promote her first EP proper, The Chase.
I also came across Ms. Monáe recently for the first time. There is a fantastic video of her performing Tightrope on the David Letterman show that you can find on YouTube that gives a real sense of her energy (and her debt to James Brown). Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMyc148Do_Q
Thanks for that, enjoyed it. This performance is pretty cool, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1J1RFKHCx0&feature=channel