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POPGAF |OT2| Oops!... We Did It Again
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You 'like' Janelle Monae but think that she should change a) her music b) her style.
What exactly is it that you like about her? The fact that she makes your faves look like preschoolers playing dress-up? That's what I like about her.
Spill that tea.
All of the women of POP-GAF's top list got to where they are through experimentation. If Janelle can't chart she could at least challenge herself. There's a fine line between "style" and "schtick", and that line is usually defined by an artist's ability to reinterpret their sound. Janelle seems incapable of that.
Majmun
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What the fuck
Sure, she can change her style, I don't care.
But her music????? I'd say other artists need to evolve and become more like her. She makes other artists look BASIC as hell.
And success has nothing to do with quality. You should know that.
You 'like' Janelle Monae but think that she should change a) her music b) her style.
What exactly is it that you like about her? The fact that she makes your faves look like preschoolers playing dress-up? That's what I like about her.
I do like Janelle Monae and I'm not suggesting she completely change who she is. But don't try to act like ALL of our faves don't grow, evolve, and experiment with their sound and artistry.
It's time for something Different from Janelle. We've gotten two albums (and some tracks with Outkast that predate her solo stuff) of this same shtick.
She has two: The Audition and the ArchAndroid.
EDIT- The Audition has Metropolis on it too. Still beautiful.
By 'two albums' are you referring to whatever her first album that nobody has heard of and The ArchAndroid or what?
I haven't even listened to The Audition. Is anyone even here for it?
Either way, not here for Janelle shade. Perhaps if any of your faves were 1/10th as good we could have this argument. Until then, vamos.
Christopher
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Hew won the X-Factor United States and has she had any hits yet? The show really needed to have a breakout hit artist to legitimatize it.
Leona Lewis
Banned
Exactly.
And Janelle outclasses nobody at this point. Seriously, I like Janelle's music and I see her POTENTIAL but I don't know how you guys rally around her as something great when she's been in this business for damn near a decade and yet the only time she can get people to notice her is when she's having a seizure on stage to the tune of someone else's music.
She is not there yet. And nor will she EVER be if she doesn't think a little bit BIGGER. Funny thing is at one point she wasn't afraid to do this. Can anybody believe that she looked like this when she first hit the scene:
But then she hooked up with Andre 3000 and experienced a glorious transformation that's responsible for what little relevance she has today. It worked for her before, so I don't understand why NOW it would be a terrible thing for her to keep experimenting and keep evolving. That's all I want to see.
'Outclasses nobody'?
C ya gerl, keep it floppy.
You can keep taking it as shade, but it's not shade. It's just the truth.
Why is it ok to praise and encourage evolution and growth in other artists, but with Janelle she MUST stay doing the same thing?
Majmun
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There's nothing wrong with her music!!
Her label just needs to push her more. Really, her music is great. Don't see why it should be changed.
Sure, she could devolve, make music like most of our fave and achieve success. But I'm not her for that.
It's just that the masses are asses. They won't notice quality even if it hits them in their stupid face.
I post one tidbit of glorious news then I discover that people can actually hate on Janelle? What kind of foolishness?
That's exactly the album I want. Sur, Janelle could let down her hair and sing generic club songs written by highly paid producers through which she has no creative input and is basically an interchangeable mouthpiece for producers, but instead she chose to make ART. None of your faves could even hope to outperform her live. I am not here for a Monae 3.0 sounding like Rihanna or Britney, that would be a waste of her superior TALENT and vision.
That's exactly the album I want. Sur, Janelle could let down her hair and sing generic club songs written by highly paid producers through which she has no creative input and is basically an interchangeable mouthpiece for producers, but instead she chose to make ART. None of your faves could even hope to outperform her live. I am not here for a Monae 3.0 sounding like Rihanna or Britney, that would be a waste of her superior TALENT and vision.
It doesn't have to be shade to be nonense. It's factually inaccurate. It's lies and delusions. ArchAndroid outclassed basically everything in 2010. The only things in the same league pop-wise were Body Talk and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
Now you're trying to drag her for 'not changing' even though you already admitted that she improved stratospherically between her first and second albums.
Notice that I say between her first and second albums. She's two albums in her career (more like one and a half albums) and you're already diagnosing this red herring problem about her 'not changing enough'. Even though what she's already doing slays.
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Now you're trying to drag her for 'not changing' even though you already admitted that she improved stratospherically between her first and second albums.
Notice that I say between her first and second albums. She's two albums in her career (more like one and a half albums) and you're already diagnosing this red herring problem about her 'not changing enough'. Even though what she's already doing slays.
id even gi
Majmun
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Godly taste tbh.
Okay, really people, you're coming for Janelle for evolution when she's only had two albums? ACTUALLY, only one album. The first was unreleased in 2003 LOL. So yeah ONE damn album.
Seriously, what a completely baseless argument. I was joking with my not actually shade, she's not been very successful so far commercially but she has been successful critically. To say she needs to evolve after one album is just... I cant.
Seriously, what a completely baseless argument. I was joking with my not actually shade, she's not been very successful so far commercially but she has been successful critically. To say she needs to evolve after one album is just... I cant.
I miss the part where I implied that I wanted Janelle to sound like Rihanna or Britney. Or where I implied that she's not talented. She's HELLA talented.
But for someone who's been doing this for as long as she has, I can't look back at her career and say I've seen a lot of challenging herself and growing who she is as an artist. Janelle COULD be much bigger than she is, and not by collaborating with David Guetta or Pitbull. She has the potential to pioneer a COMPLETELY NEW SOUND. But I think she has to expand beyond that sound she's been cultivating all these years and perfected with The Archandroid. It's time for something new.
She has the album, she has the EP (that she sold and promoted), and she has her work with Outkast.
Maybe the amount of time she's been around and how long she's been in this phase is more noticeable to people who have been following her since she was a protege of Andre. She didn't spring onto the scene with Archandroid. She'd been around for years by that point.
Yes, where the fuck is it????
Nemesis_
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Join the DJ room! I only have 30 minutes left *.*
Royalan, I love u, but when it comes to this Janelle talk of yours
Alright, I'll shut up about Janelle...for now.
But if that first single drops and it sounds like Tightrope Pt. 2...
What are gonna do when Fuck Your Body is Not Myself Tonight part 2?
I have heard Kimbra's music on some VH1 show, a Victoria Secret commercial, and she has a song on the Frankenweenie soundtrack.
Janelle WISHES
Leona Lewis
Banned
YASSS drag'm
Christopher
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Not Myself tongiht wasn't really a bad song per say just the imagry and her appearance associated with that made it nasty.
Leona Lewis
Banned
Xtina's vocals elevate it above pure trash, but that beat is some Paris Hilton stock bullshit. Had to check the year when I first heard it tbh
Nemesis_
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the livestream starts in 4 hours
He could get it once he removes that awful Rihanus poster
and if he is legal of course
Not to mention that the transition from the chorus to the bridge in NMT is so sloppy and jarring that i'm surprised Xtina even agreed to put her vocals on it.
Lawd, Xtina is my queen but I'll be the FIRST to admit that EVERYTHING about NMT was wrong. Terrible song, Terrible video, Terrible promotion. Hated it from first listen and really set the tone for an era that could have gone much differently based on the other material from the album. ;_;
Lawd, Xtina is my queen but I'll be the FIRST to admit that EVERYTHING about NMT was wrong. Terrible song, Terrible video, Terrible promotion. Hated it from first listen and really set the tone for an era that could have gone much differently based on the other material from the album. ;_;
Leona Lewis
Banned
I wish she'd release an R&B album. Morning Dessert/Sex for Breakfast are stunning, and really let her unique vocal tone shine in the limited range in which it tends to shine.
So much wasted potential.
Leona Lewis
Banned
New page, new news:
SLAYONA will slay all your faves this fall. And this summer as well with her lead single "Trouble" from Glassheart.
#glassheart2012worlddomination #quietbeforethestorm #troubleahead
Naughty Boy (who just unleashed some orgasmic fire with Emeli Sande) produced the track, and Ms. Sande wrote it. Critics have described it as a "stunning trip-hop masterpiece" with a "spectral vocal" and "blooming huge" chart potential, and now there's rumors it will premiere THIS FRIDAY.
SHE'S COMING FOR WIGS. That is all.
Keep it cute and flop-free, gerls.
SLAYONA will slay all your faves this fall. And this summer as well with her lead single "Trouble" from Glassheart.
#glassheart2012worlddomination #quietbeforethestorm #troubleahead
Naughty Boy (who just unleashed some orgasmic fire with Emeli Sande) produced the track, and Ms. Sande wrote it. Critics have described it as a "stunning trip-hop masterpiece" with a "spectral vocal" and "blooming huge" chart potential, and now there's rumors it will premiere THIS FRIDAY.
SHE'S COMING FOR WIGS. That is all.
Keep it cute and flop-free, gerls.
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