Janelle Monáe & Nate Wonder | Broken Record
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2023
- @janellemonae has had a lot to smile about this year. After a run of successful albums over the last decade, in June she released her fourth album, The Age of Pleasure. The album was just nominated for two Grammys including Album of the Year. This project is important-it signaled a big tone shift for Janelle whose past albums have centered in part around a recurring character named Cyndi Mayweather, an android who represents society’s new “other.”
Esthetically Janelle has always been buttoned up. For her first few album releases she made a point of always appearing in public in some iteration of a tuxedo. For The Age Of Pleasure though, she literally stripped down to almost nothing, flaunting a newfound freedom centered around Black joy and acceptance.
On today’s episode Justin Richmond talks to Janelle Monáe and her long time music partner Nate Wonder poolside, at their creative home base in the Hollywood Hills called Wondaland. Nate explains how The Age Of Pleasure album started with the simple conceit of making Janelle smile. Janelle also talks about why she decided to ditch a career in musical theater after college, and how THE Grace Jones ended up topless in Wondaland’s now-infamous pool.
You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Janelle Monáe songs here: open.spotify.com/playlist/6P8...
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For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory-maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world.
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Broken Record is hosted by Justin Richmond with interviews by producer Rick Rubin, writer Malcolm Gladwell, and former New York Times editor Bruce Headlam.
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Oh, thank you for asking about Deep Cotton! Excited to hear they have an album coming. I'm also waiting on Roman to release a full album.
On the part about wanting to give somethig to make women, particularly Black women, smile. As a Black woman, I can say for sure her latest album did that for me. You can't help but smile when singing songs like Float, Phenomenal and Haute. Singing along with this album was forcing me to sing affirmations to myself that I didnt necessarily feel. That is so powerful. And I did see her when it was on tour and just being in the audience and seeing that with everybody and with her was just so wonderful and energizing. I listened to this album so much i was kn the top 0.001% of her fans on Spotify 😄 Thanks for this podcast It was very interesting to listen to as a long time fan (since at least 2010).
EXACTLY!!!!
Always a pleasure
This, was PLEASURE.
How bout a video podcast???
False advertising, where are the bajombers?
Every time she do something the advertisement is her naked! What happen to letting talent speak for itself!
This cover is the definition of clickbate
🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️Then you have no idea what monae released this year
@@phisto221 no its because the male brain sees exposed breasts and cant help but click.. basic biology
Is it what..