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In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
First, a salty digression you are free to skip.
I heard Janelle Monae is going to be supporting Childish Gambino at Coachella, which I am just like whut? at. No shade to Donglover, but Janelle has more talent as a musician in her little finger than he does in his whole damn body.
A couple years ago, clipping's (Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal's hip hop group) sophomore album Splendor and Misery was nominated for best short form dramatic presentation. Please do not mistake me, they absolutely deserved it, but if they did, then Janelle Monae did too.
I don't remember where I was when I first saw Many Moons, the first video from her EP Metropolis Suite 1: The Chase. But I can tell you it blew my goddamn mind. 2008 was still in the tail end of some real bad years for (pop) music, when "Bad Romance" felt like a revelation, and Many Moons wasn't like anything I'd ever heard before. It still isn't.
Everything about the video is high-concept and sci-fi as shit, but centers a black woman--many copies of a black woman in fact. The way she connects the plight of the androids and the black experience isn't original to sci-fi or probably even Afrofuturism, but the way in which she does it, in just six minutes? This is stellar worldbuilding that makes you want to immerse yourself in everything it has to offer.
I'm not going to lie, it's pretty dense, and like I said, high-concept as shit. It's not meant for everybody, but for the people it speaks to, it does so very strongly. I'm so glad we get to see more of the world she started building in Metropolis in Archandroid and Electric Lady, and whenever she wants to finish up Cindi Mayweather's story, there are lots of people who will be glad to hear it.
First, a salty digression you are free to skip.
I heard Janelle Monae is going to be supporting Childish Gambino at Coachella, which I am just like whut? at. No shade to Donglover, but Janelle has more talent as a musician in her little finger than he does in his whole damn body.
A couple years ago, clipping's (Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal's hip hop group) sophomore album Splendor and Misery was nominated for best short form dramatic presentation. Please do not mistake me, they absolutely deserved it, but if they did, then Janelle Monae did too.
I don't remember where I was when I first saw Many Moons, the first video from her EP Metropolis Suite 1: The Chase. But I can tell you it blew my goddamn mind. 2008 was still in the tail end of some real bad years for (pop) music, when "Bad Romance" felt like a revelation, and Many Moons wasn't like anything I'd ever heard before. It still isn't.
Everything about the video is high-concept and sci-fi as shit, but centers a black woman--many copies of a black woman in fact. The way she connects the plight of the androids and the black experience isn't original to sci-fi or probably even Afrofuturism, but the way in which she does it, in just six minutes? This is stellar worldbuilding that makes you want to immerse yourself in everything it has to offer.
I'm not going to lie, it's pretty dense, and like I said, high-concept as shit. It's not meant for everybody, but for the people it speaks to, it does so very strongly. I'm so glad we get to see more of the world she started building in Metropolis in Archandroid and Electric Lady, and whenever she wants to finish up Cindi Mayweather's story, there are lots of people who will be glad to hear it.
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Date: 2019-01-04 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-04 12:11 am (UTC)WHUT
Oh man, I remember seeing Many Moons and Tightrope and then her live on Letterman and especially Glastonbury and thinking, wow, this is someone NEW. Such total self-assurance and enough talent for ten people combined and so much of what she said -- sang -- flat out with Dirty Computer was there right from the start, incipient. It was just amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBeAwmow1eA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzZnao2fbRQ
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Date: 2019-01-04 02:03 am (UTC)