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[Matt_]

Marina and the Diamonds- Electra Heart

Marina doing what she do best and serving it in all the right ways

 

[Ovid]

But that remix is offensively terrible, the original is a masterpiece. That's american music taste, I guess

The remix is the only reason why I decided to give her a listen.

 

[Aguila]

Like most apps

If Microshart got anything right in their line of products its Windows Phone.

To bad I will be the only one to know this

 

[Matt_]

The remix is the only reason why I decided to give her a listen.

Yeh while I prefer the original the remix is pretty decent and it's getting her out there to an audience that wouldn't have considered her before. Her voice is unique and remains the main attraction of the song, will only help raise her profile


How to be a Heartbreaker. The superior Blurred Lines.

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Release Date: September 10, 2013

Disc 1:
1. Suite IV Electric Overture
2. Givin Em What They Love feat. Prince
3. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu
4. Electric Lady with Solange
5. Good Morning Midnight (interlude)
6. PrimeTime feat. Miguel
7. We Were Rock & Roll
8. The Chrome Shoppe (interlude)
9. Dance Apocalyptic
10. Look Into My Eyes

Disc 2:
12. Suite V Electric Overture
13. It's Code
14. Ghetto Woman
15. Our Favorite Fugitive (interlude)
16. Victory
17. Can't Live Without Your Love
18. Sally Ride
19. Dorothy Dandridge Eyes feat. Esperanza Spalding
20. What An Experience
21. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu (Wondamix) (Exclusive)
22. Electric Lady feat. Big Boi & CeeLo Green (Dungeon-Wondamix) (Exclusive)
23. HYTB (Exclusive)
24. I Want You Back (Exclusive)

http://www.target.com/p/janelle-monae-the-electric-lady-only-at-target/-/A-14652334

 

[Dr. Malik]

This actually looks pretty and iconic

 

[Ollie Pooch]

I'm super pumped for Applause, but gurl these lyrics....



What the fuck is going on with her writing? It's like she's going out of her way to make this song sound as awkward and alienating to sing as humanly possible.

Her writing's usually really hit or miss but every lyric she's tweeted so far for this album are just hilariously bad. Thankfully she has stellar delivery so it won't sound as dumb as it reads.

... Then again we take RA RA AH AH AHHH for granted at this point. lol

I'm imagining kids singing these lyrics and laughing.

 

[royalan]

Release Date: September 10, 2013

Disc 1:
1. Suite IV Electric Overture
2. Givin Em What They Love feat. Prince
3. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu
4. Electric Lady with Solange
5. Good Morning Midnight (interlude)
6. PrimeTime feat. Miguel
7. We Were Rock & Roll
8. The Chrome Shoppe (interlude)
9. Dance Apocalyptic
10. Look Into My Eyes

Disc 2:
12. Suite V Electric Overture
13. It's Code
14. Ghetto Woman
15. Our Favorite Fugitive (interlude)
16. Victory
17. Can't Live Without Your Love
18. Sally Ride
19. Dorothy Dandridge Eyes feat. Esperanza Spalding
20. What An Experience
21. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu (Wondamix) (Exclusive)
22. Electric Lady feat. Big Boi & CeeLo Green (Dungeon-Wondamix) (Exclusive)
23. HYTB (Exclusive)
24. I Want You Back (Exclusive)

http://www.target.com/p/janelle-monae-the-electric-lady-only-at-target/-/A-14652334

That's a fierce-ass cover.

 

[botty]

Oh look, another Miguel feature.

 

[cory64]

Release Date: September 10, 2013

Disc 1:
1. Suite IV Electric Overture
2. Givin Em What They Love feat. Prince
3. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu
4. Electric Lady with Solange
5. Good Morning Midnight (interlude)
6. PrimeTime feat. Miguel
7. We Were Rock & Roll
8. The Chrome Shoppe (interlude)
9. Dance Apocalyptic
10. Look Into My Eyes

Disc 2:
12. Suite V Electric Overture
13. It's Code
14. Ghetto Woman
15. Our Favorite Fugitive (interlude)
16. Victory
17. Can't Live Without Your Love
18. Sally Ride
19. Dorothy Dandridge Eyes feat. Esperanza Spalding
20. What An Experience
21. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu (Wondamix) (Exclusive)
22. Electric Lady feat. Big Boi & CeeLo Green (Dungeon-Wondamix) (Exclusive)
23. HYTB (Exclusive)
24. I Want You Back (Exclusive)

http://www.target.com/p/janelle-monae-the-electric-lady-only-at-target/-/A-14652334

WAIT
omg I'm crying. She's comingT!!

 

[Fey]

Release Date: September 10, 2013

Disc 1:
1. Suite IV Electric Overture
2. Givin Em What They Love feat. Prince
3. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu
4. Electric Lady with Solange
5. Good Morning Midnight (interlude)
6. PrimeTime feat. Miguel
7. We Were Rock & Roll
8. The Chrome Shoppe (interlude)
9. Dance Apocalyptic
10. Look Into My Eyes

Disc 2:
12. Suite V Electric Overture
13. It's Code
14. Ghetto Woman
15. Our Favorite Fugitive (interlude)
16. Victory
17. Can't Live Without Your Love
18. Sally Ride
19. Dorothy Dandridge Eyes feat. Esperanza Spalding
20. What An Experience
21. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu (Wondamix) (Exclusive)
22. Electric Lady feat. Big Boi & CeeLo Green (Dungeon-Wondamix) (Exclusive)
23. HYTB (Exclusive)
24. I Want You Back (Exclusive)

http://www.target.com/p/janelle-monae-the-electric-lady-only-at-target/-/A-14652334

that cover
the date
the collaborations!!!
the two discs

AOTY

 

[Phreaker]

Was Katy Perry's album called PRISM before the world found out about the NSA trying to get the tea on everyone?

 

[Ollie Pooch]

She did 'I Want You Back' at the Opera House show I went to. So good.

 

[cory64]

The RIAA certifications for double albums... I smell DIAMOND.

 

[Matt_]

I really want to see Janelle live

 

[Artemisia]

Release Date: September 10, 2013

Disc 1:
1. Suite IV Electric Overture
2. Givin Em What They Love feat. Prince
3. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu
4. Electric Lady with Solange
5. Good Morning Midnight (interlude)
6. PrimeTime feat. Miguel
7. We Were Rock & Roll
8. The Chrome Shoppe (interlude)
9. Dance Apocalyptic
10. Look Into My Eyes

Disc 2:
12. Suite V Electric Overture
13. It's Code
14. Ghetto Woman
15. Our Favorite Fugitive (interlude)
16. Victory
17. Can't Live Without Your Love
18. Sally Ride
19. Dorothy Dandridge Eyes feat. Esperanza Spalding
20. What An Experience
21. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu (Wondamix) (Exclusive)
22. Electric Lady feat. Big Boi & CeeLo Green (Dungeon-Wondamix) (Exclusive)
23. HYTB (Exclusive)
24. I Want You Back (Exclusive)

http://www.target.com/p/janelle-monae-the-electric-lady-only-at-target/-/A-14652334

I don't even know what to say.

I'm just slain.

 

[royalan]

Release Date: September 10, 2013

Disc 1:
1. Suite IV Electric Overture
2. Givin Em What They Love feat. Prince
3. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu
4. Electric Lady with Solange
5. Good Morning Midnight (interlude)
6. PrimeTime feat. Miguel
7. We Were Rock & Roll
8. The Chrome Shoppe (interlude)
9. Dance Apocalyptic
10. Look Into My Eyes

Disc 2:
12. Suite V Electric Overture
13. It's Code
14. Ghetto Woman
15. Our Favorite Fugitive (interlude)
16. Victory
17. Can't Live Without Your Love
18. Sally Ride
19. Dorothy Dandridge Eyes feat. Esperanza Spalding
20. What An Experience
21. Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu (Wondamix) (Exclusive)
22. Electric Lady feat. Big Boi & CeeLo Green (Dungeon-Wondamix) (Exclusive)
23. HYTB (Exclusive)
24. I Want You Back (Exclusive)

http://www.target.com/p/janelle-monae-the-electric-lady-only-at-target/-/A-14652334

Someone make a thread

 

[cory64]

I really want to see Janelle live

She is the best live performer I've ever witnessed. Truly a holy experience.

 

[Matt_]

She is the best live performer I've ever witnessed. Truly a holy experience.

Hoping she tours the UK or does the festival circuit next year. She needs to go back to glastonbury

 

[Milchjon]

So is Beyonce officially old now?

 

[Artemisia]

I'm thinking that cover may be target exclusive. They always do that for the albums they promote.

 

[Yado]

I hate long albums. I bet both discs are teeming with filler tracks.

 

[Rocket Punch]

Sooooo Gaga is giving co-writing credit to the lil monsters on her new album right? I mean, those lyrics....

So basically Applause is her butthurt rebuff to the critics slamming her for appropriating other acts and using nostalgia to build her persona. But guess what?? She like to READ about the pop stars and study them! So THERE!

It's clumsy and sooooo transparent. But even then a songwriter of her caliber (LOL) should be able to come up with more clever lyrics. Even Aura's lyrics (Poker Face 2.0) are actually better than this.

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

I hate long albums. I bet both discs are teeming with filler tracks.

There are "only" 14 tracks if you don't include the intros/interludes/bonus tracks...which is a weak defense, I know, but if anyone can deliver a strong long album, it's Janelle. The Archandroid

 

[cory64]

So is Beyonce officially old now?

She could potentially be a legacy act depending on how she handles the next year.

 

[botty]

I hate long albums. I bet both discs are teeming with filler tracks.

Do you know what filler means?

 

[Partition]

MegaXtina leaked

 

[Artemisia]

MegaXtina leaked

 

[Fey]

I hate long albums. I bet both discs are teeming with filler tracks.

5 tracks aren't really actual songs

4 are bonus tracks (2 remixes + 2 separate)

Spoiler

there is no track 11 (?) :eli:

did you even read the tracklist or

 

[Trigger]

I'm here for new Janelle!

 

[botty]

MegaXtina leaked

You've really turned on her.

That's fine. Applause is close.

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Spoiler

there is no track 11 (?) :eli:

O...

It must be that secret track featuring Robyn, Britney Spears, and Kelly Clarkson, right?

 

[Fey]

MegaXtina leaked

the burger crown :rip:

 

[paperheart]

Janelle has the best cover reveal today. It's stunning. *.*

Let me go play DA on Spotify rn.

 

[Yado]

did you even read the tracklist or

Not really. I'm just hyper sensitive to filler after my unpleasant experience with her last album.

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Not really. I'm just hyper sensitive to filler after my unpleasant experience with her last album.

O...

 

[SaintZ]

O

New John Mayer Album Features Katy Perry, Frank Ocean
'Paradise Valley' includes duet with singer-guitarist's on-and-off-again girlfriend

John Mayer's sixth studio album, Paradise Valley (due out August 20th) features a pair of high-profile guests: his increasingly frequent collaborator Frank Ocean, and his on-again-off-again girlfriend Katy Perry.

Perry appears on a country-tinged mid-tempo track titled "Who You Love"; Ocean lends his voice to a brief, poetic track Mayer has already debuted with a lyric video titled "Wildfire."

Mayer publically acknowleged the role Perry has played in his life when he returned to the stage in July, telling the crowd at Milwaukee's Summerfest, "She was so patient" and took the time "to continue to get to know me and love me" while he suffered from vocal issues. The two have not collaborated prior to her appearance on Paradise Valley.

Ocean, however, has been working with the singer-guitarist for some time. Mayer plays on the Odd Future crooner's track "Pyramids" and joined Ocean on SNL.

"Frank is such an interesting, deep, touched, wonderful guy," Mayer told Rolling Stone in January. "They don't make a lot of other Frank Oceans, and the guy is looking for another. And the way that his mind works is craving the same frequency that he's able to communicate on, and I think he's just searching for that kind of depth that he has inside of himself in someone else. He's fascinating to me. He's so great."

Mayer was even willing to say a few words about Perry during that interview, telling us, "I'm quite happy. I'm happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life."

I don't really listen to John Mayer but I'm perched for both songs.

 

[Soulscribe]

She could potentially be a legacy act depending on how she handles the next year.

..... Wat

 

[twobear]

I really want to see Janelle live

She absolutely shits, decimates lives and slays everyone else's faves ten times over live.

I am getting tickets to the Q.U.E.E.N. tour if it's the last things I do.

AOTY incoming, I can feel it in my taint.

 

[cory64]

Godkira vs. MegaXtina (ゴッドキーラ 対 メガエクスティー&#12490 is a classic of the genre. I'm glad NBC picked up the rights to it.

 

[twobear]

waiT though

The dots at the bottom...

So this means that there are at least two more suites planned?

 

[Artemisia]

waiT though

The dots at the bottom...

So this means that there are at least two more suites planned?

yes. but she could add more.

 

[twobear]

yes. but she could add more.

Well she had originally planned there to be four suites, and The Electric Lady is four and five, and based on the dots at the bottom there's a sixth and a seventh planned?

Had she mentioned more? I had thought The Electric Lady was supposed to be the end of the concept suite.

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Well she had originally planned there to be four suits, and The Electric Lady is four and five, and based on the dots at the bottom there's a sixth and a seventh planned?

Oof. This is going to bother me for the rest of my existence. Let's start a change.org petition to get her to release updated versions of the Metropolis and Archandroid covers.

 

[Trigger]

lol, I had never noticed those dots before.

 

[Kyon]

..... Wat

I know it's hard accepting the inevitable

 

[twobear]

Someone make a thread

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=647763

 

[Data West]

i see klaus nomi every time i see janelle

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

Artemisia finally recommended a song to me that didn't suck. Bless her heart.
Lianne La Havas - Au Cinéma

 

[botty]

i see klaus nomi every time i see janelle

This is actually a really good comparison.