Brevity and directness are not Janelle Monáe’s things. Her albums, when they arrive, are vast and sprawling and messily ambitious. In the past, she’s collided R&B with new wave and Broadway and ...

In “Pynk,” a single from Janelle Monae’s third full-length, “Dirty Computer,” she sings, “Pink beyond forest and thighs/ Pink like the secrets you hide, maybe.” Its video a bold celebration of lady ...

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Janelle Monáe rarely goes more than a few minutes on her new album, “Dirty Computer,” without evoking the hardship and injustice that color the American experience for so many. Police violence, pay ...

After coming out to Rolling Stone and giving a very open and insightful interview to The Breakfast Club, Janelle Monae caps off her week with the release of her highly anticipated third studio LP, ...

Janelle Monáe came out as pansexual in a Rolling Stone interview published April 26, a day before the release of her latest studio album and its accompanying short film, “Dirty Computer.” The funky ...

Janelle Monáe fans can finally take a deep look into the R&B songstress’ clever mind in the form of a defiant and bugged computer. In Monáe’s first two studio albums she remained somewhat elusive, ...

Put some champagne in your chalice and find a comfortable seat on the couch because on Thursday, April 26 Janelle Monáe is premiering her Dirty Computer short film. The 44-minute "emotion pic," as she ...

On the eve of her new album’s release, and hours after she came out in a blockbuster Rolling Stone cover story, Janelle Monáe took her victory lap at a listening party for friends, fans, and fawning ...

vocalizing her support for women without vaginas.At the end of the day, Dirty Computer is a beautiful love story, in every sense of love. In “Screwed,” Monáe sings about sex and power, concluding that ...

Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer is an ambitious, politically outspoken, all-encompassing pop-R&B statement album at a time when the existence of such a thing is not a given. Out since April, it’s her ...

In a new sci-fi book, musician Janelle Monáe expands on themes from her Grammy-nominated album "Dirty Computer" to tell stories about a community of individuals whose identities are being erased. The ...