Posts Tagged ‘janellemonae
Janelle Monae on the BET Awards
If you look really closely, you might just see your boy 2.0!
Last night was one of those nights. Benny called it Bright Young Things and in a lot of ways it was. It was the afterparty for the Atlanta leg of the Janelle Monáe tour AND the surprise birthday party of Wondaland’s own Nate “Rocket” Wonder.
But the operative word is party, and that is exactly what we did. More later.
Janelle Monáe’s “Tightrope”
I am uber excited that people are going to get to hear this music and create for themselves the kinds of situations that it was intended to inspire. In my mind, I see subway riders listening to their playlists on the way home from a hard day of work, flipping through their USA today and coming across this list, then going home and downloading the song and having a better ride to work the next day then they have ever had. (sweat under their business suits and bobby pins dangling from their unraveled coifs) The picture is here for you to see, but the
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