Janelle is very…orginal.

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Janelle love this!! This is giving me a bit of a KELIS vibe. I’m a fan

I really want to like Janelle
Although I love Mr. President
I wasn’t impressed with Many Moons or anything else I’ve heard thus far
I’ll hold out for a little while before I cop Metropolis

This woman is INCREDIBLE!!!!! Period. I really dont know why people call her sound “weird”. How is strange? It has a has a concept behind it, she mixes different sounds without being contrived and is a great singer. I’d much rather hear someone singing about being “an alien from outta space” than hearing all the other usual crap. Nothing weird there to me. I know damn well a lot of Americans wont get excited by her music since it gravitates too far out from the norm on mainstream radio, MTV, BET, etc but they GOTTA promote her in the European and Japanese markets cause those folks would embrace her sound. She is one who is “different” so to speak, but is also VERY GOOD at doing so.

And if u listen to “Mr President” that is probably one of her most “conventional” tracks, showing that isnt completely relying on this intergalactic persona. The lyrics of Pres are great and have a meaningful message.

Dunno what else to add. This girl is something special. Her, Estelle and Jazmine Sullivan are definitely among the best female newcomers on the scene this year. SOOOOOOOOOOO glad real music is starting to slowly come back.

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My bad for the empty post.

I looooove Janelle
I cant wait to buy her album

i love janelle live , she got vocals and there is a great indepth video interview of janelle monae at http://www.gakcity.com

She’s a little TOO original and unique for me.
i’ll pass

i just can’t get down with the weird look and sound.

Question:
What is a talent like that doing on bad boy records? That was not a bold business move. We all know how diddy goes. All the great acts he had left: 112, faith evans, carl thomas. Mtv help make danity kane and mtv, the only that gets playing time, is cassie. We all know how she rolls; heads first.
I was excited finally the world get to see her talents, then I heard she was sign to bad boy, I almost had a wdf–moment!

loves it!!!!

I love it. I listened to the speach part several times. I also got Violet Stars Happy Hunting. Yeah she’s different.

YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY!
i love dis gurl!!! soooo unique!

i’m a janelle fan! i liked her on that unreleased album she did with the song “you.” i think it would have that genre would appeal to more fans. “violet stars happy hunting” was hot though too and “suddenly sara.”

To be honest, I haven’t heard one track by her that is (my) iPod worthy. I love her voice and vocal range BUT I think she can be promoted better. Maybe because I don’t just listen to R&B, my expectations of anything remotely “indie” are higher. Maybe that’s why she just hasn’t “wow”-ed me yet… i dunno. All I know is in terms of her style, I’ve heard it before and better. Hopefully I’ll hear something to convince me otherwise soon. Still, it’s nice that now ppl who don’t/can’t venture outside their norm will have another option their familiar w/ to listen to instead of that “urban pop” crap that’s mostly around. To thumbs up just for that!

To be honest, I haven’t heard one track by her that is (my) iPod worthy. I love her voice and vocal range BUT I think she can be promoted better. Maybe because I don’t just listen to R&B, my expectations of anything remotely “indie” are higher. Maybe that’s why she just hasn’t “wow”-ed me yet… i dunno. All I know is in terms of her style, I’ve heard it before and better. Hopefully I’ll hear something to convince me otherwise soon. Still, it’s nice that now ppl who don’t/can’t venture outside their norm will have another option their familiar w/ to listen to instead of that “urban pop” crap that’s mostly around. To thumbs up just for that!

First time hearing of this sista to be honest… Loving the album cover and the song has a nice groove to it…

I’m feelin Janelle; she is original which most artist lack today!!!

Hmmm.. I’m not too sure about her yet..

ORIGINAL

love her.

hmmm…jury’s still out on this one. she just tries soooo hard to be different, and it comes off as ingenuine. i totally get the need for artistic expression, but the nature of music is to connect to the souls of your audience, and i just don’t get that from her. she would be better suited to just illustrate metropolis in a series of abstract paintings and hang them in an obscure art gallery somewhere… get all of it out of your system, then try connecting with the people who listen to you.

LUV JANELLE!! Have spoken too her a few times, and creatively she cannot be touched. Her Distribution deal is with BAD BOY. Creatively Puff lets her do her thing. That’s what makes her JANELLE, and that’s why DIDDY wanted her and signed her. Janelle is a breathe of fresh air Like Her Not -She’s DOPE!

I’M SORRY BUT SHE WON’T GO ANYWHERE BEING ON BAD BOY RECORDS. SHE’S REALLY DIFFERENT AND PEOPLE AREN’T USE TO HER TYPE OF MUSIC, SO SHE’S GONNA HAVE A HARD TIME.

#11 and #25, I agree with u about the bad boy thing. This girl can hang her hat cause Diddy only knows how to start, not finish, things.

I can understand where people are coming from and its not for everyone, her sound is different, and listening to it without visuals makes it even weirder to most people. She doesn’t “try hard” as some might say, it just appears that way, because most artists and their labels are the same recycled stuff. Look at some international artists :

Imogen Heap - “Hide and Seek” - if you want to know what different is - mind you this chick can sing, but watch her live performances on youtube, where she makes her music on stage - sh*t or Bjork for that matter - “All is full of love”)

I think your minds will change, as change is good sometimes, esp in this day and age of music with over-autotuned, musically challenged production. We’ve fallen in so much love with artists looks, and the beat, that we forgot what music is.

But watch her in concert and you will get it - that is where her strength is in my opinion. As far as a show, she puts that sh*t on something serious!

Kelsey Davis has the same sort of thing going on, where you have to be in the mood to listen to his stuff, but when you go to his show, you have one of the best nights of your life.

STOP HATiN ON HER
SHE NOT TALKiN ABOUT SHAKiN HER ASS & HAViN SEXUAL iNTERCOURSE WiTH A MAN PPLz DONT LiKE HER
SHEz UNiQUE

Ok…So, I pre-ordered Janelle Monae’s album through newburycomics.com. This album is soooo unique and hot! I am so impressed with this piece of art. I can’t believe people are so dense as to not appreciate such an incredible artist like Janelle simply because she looks and dresses different! I mean, it’s really absurd. She is wonderful and has an amazing voice. She is doing what a lot of artist of today can’t do, and that’s let her talent speak for itself rather than letting an image carry her. She has an incredible live voice (she is also a great performer) and can sing
a capella like nobody’s business. Please before judging her watch clips of her doing her thing on youtube. She will literally blow you away. GET THIS ALBUM!!! The message and her voice is so strong and powerful.

Oh! I forgot to add…KUDOS TO BRIAN!!! You totally have me hooked on Janelle. She is awesome! She is definitely one of my top 10 living performers.

Thanks, Brian!

Please, the word “hating” has no bearing here, there were nothing but concise opinions so far - i don’t get it why people still say this

I think JM is tight as f*ck. And the album will be bought. But I understand when people say its different. It is, you have to be in the mood to listen to some of it, in my opinion, but that does not mean it is not good music.

I like Pavoratti singing “Nessun Dorma” - but I can’t listen to opera all the time as I have to be in the mood (btw, symphony, yeah, thats real music - composed).

Talent aside, it isn’t for everybody (agreed), but I say, people who don’t like it as “ipod” worthy and the like, go to one of her shows, it is f*cking amazing, art at its best! The missing piece for the average consumer will be found in the sheer amount of entertainment her songs give when she performs them live - well worth it IMO

She looks beautiful and sexy. I saw her profile on milllionaire&celeb personals site “”"”W e a l t h y L o v e s.co m”"”"”"last week. It is said she is dating young billionaire on that site.

Its different.. I bet they wouldn’t keep playing this on the radio, like all the other songs they play the sh*t out of.

I like Sincerely, Jane, sounds very good.

Brian, please look at the way you construct your sentences in your reviews. Some of them do not make any sense. You really have to re-read over and over to understand what you are trying to say. This is just a little constructive critism.

Thanks for the music.

MOFO,

I feel where you’re coming from. I’ve seen Janelle peform live, and thats exactly how I felt when I left: Wow! What a performance! But it didn’t make me want to BUY the music. It felt as if I was leaving th Broadway performance of Wicked, that didn’t mean I wanted to run out and buy the soundtrack, but it was certainly enjoyable. Maybe she has differnent intentions in terms of what she wants to accomplish with her music. And, I LOVE Imogen Heap; I don’t have to be in the mood for her, her music is soothing, and the lyrics are deeply moving; ah ha, it *connects*…And maybe I’m just too critical, but even Janelle’s writing, as “abstract” as the album concept is, the writing is so juvenile, even Mr. President, everything seems to be sung for the sake of rhyming…I’m just not feeling her, but I don’t deny her talent. To each his own.

yawn. her “look” seems very contrived.

She must don’t know, being signed to Bad Boy will get you nowhere. Ask Cherri Dennis!

I am goin to go get this album TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Janelle is off the chain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love Janelle! Going to get the album today! I am so excited to hear it. I absolutely love “Sincerely Jane”- That is my ish.

hmm….it’s a little too much for me… she has a beautiful voice but I’d never cop the album

FYI - Just because someone doesn’t like an artist doesn’t make them wrong people. Quit trying to convince someone about YOUR BELIEFS!! SMDH people have the nerve to get on here and try to scream on people because they don’t feel Janelle. That’s crazy. Just know what YOU like. If your not her PR, why get all crazy?? I bet Diddy won’t give a quarter of that emotion about her.

I was the same way when CL first introduced Janelle, skeptical. And all I have to say is, if you catch her live, your opinion will change. I like her better live than on the CD. As far as her signing to Bad Boy, I don’t think she would be shelved like the rest. Janelle has started a very strong buzz. And it would be hard for her to go away. All Diddy’s other groups are made up in the studio. Monae’s “strange” music is whats going to put her in a different class than other BB artist that have went stale. If Diddy doesn’t do the right thing, I’m sure another label will scoop her up ASAP! She already knows Diddy’s style. She has the Dungon Family behind her too, so… Let’s just wish her the best.

I LOVE DIVERSITY….FINNALY SOMTHING NEW FROM A NEW ARTIST WITH A REAL singing voice….FINNALY MUSIC IS GETTIN ITS TALENT BACK.

I love Janelle Monae ever since Ive heard her first single.

Her voice is so lovely and pure…..it is sooooo refreshing when they release artist THEY ACTUALLY HAVE MORE TO OFFER TALENT WISE
THEN THERE LOOKS, STYLE OR SEX APPEAL.

Now its time to rep my girl DEEMI…….dont sleep on Deemi..she can blow too…..I hope she release some new stuff….we need to support the real talent, the positive and the gifted artist out here that truly has something sufficent and inspiring to offer the mic and there audience….
(like music use to when talent had to be more than what u looked like) like those whom are simply just doin it for money, fame and recoqnition…..ITS MORE TO MUSIC THEN THE SUPEFICIAL SH*T PPL&MEDIA. FOCUS ON NOWADAYS.

I LIKE HER SOUND A LOT.
and I will purchase this piece.

I hope Bad Boy Records I hope he doesn’t destroy this woman’s chance to shine like a lot of other talanted artist, would really be ashame.

Her sound to me is a mix of Prince, Outkast, Macy Gray with a touch of Badu…..

Her look she pushed to the next level and is sticking to that one style but it is so Andre 2000. She took her hair and made it her own unique look add that to the weirdnessand mystery of Prince sprinkle the underlying messages in a few songs of Badu’s last album… and thus you have Janelle Monae… not a fan but I like her voice.

She has a great voice and loads of marketing appeal which is why Sean Combs the businessman snatched her up. Janelle has the ability to let her talent speak for itself so regardless of which label she signs with talent, and overall likability will carry her thru either here or outside of the States she definately will maintain a steady fan base…

I’m on the fence with her right now… I would have to check her out live

Looooooooooove MISS MONAE….GOTTA LISTEN TO PEACH TREE BLUES….if you looove real music from SARAH VAUGHN TO BILLIE HOLIDAY TO original ARTIST LIKE INDIA ARIE to AALIYAH….even miss Jazmin you will love Janelle…she isnt tryin to a BE typical sounding artist…she is puttin ART IN THE WORD ARTIST LITERALLY because of her originality and her innovating sound…..im sick of the state of mind that music is in now…follow the leader type ish…same sound same hook…thats whats wrong with this country ppl dont know how to accept diversity….just rather hear that same ole sound ..sex sellin type of music…booty poppin type ish…im cheatin on my man…trend this trend that…shes pretty so she can sing type ish…music has sunken low…because of the way ppl are disrespectin music for money and fame, when music BACK THEN WAS WORTH AND WAS SOOO MUCH MORE THEN THE SHALLOW STATE IT IS IN NOW THANKS TO lame azz musicians greedy azz label producers seekin money rather then new and diverse talent…feedn garbage musically to those who have no clue on what real music truly sounds like.

this country has no love for ppl, music, sound or anything anymore basically thats iS FRESH, NEW OR DIFFERENT..I FOUND out ALOONG TIME AGO…ppl in this country biggest fear is being themselves or different…all because the aim is to blend instead of standing above or out…..

I’m going to cop this album. This chick is FIERCE!!! Get it, Janelle.

yawn.

first let me start by saying.. Janelle is Incredible……………….. Her mind and Artistry isnt meant to be understood.. it just “is”…. there is a reason why she only had them press up “57,821″ Copies of her EP… Besides of it being in honor of “Cindy Mayweather” (The Cyborg robot who is the main character of the album) but basically..she’s not trying to sell to the millons… She’s being an ARTIST and enjoying every minute of it… she was blessed to have major backing..so that the world can be apart of this adventure… im sooo proud of her.. and she’s setting a standard that artist can be who they are… at all times.. without pressure of “Pleasing People” … She’s Painting Portraits with her music and vision.. for musicians and singers…. music is our Canvas… and so we use music just as a painter would use paints… Rather You like Janelle or not.. im sure its no bother to her regardless.. she is doing what she love’s and having a great time doing it.. i admire her for taking a stance against the pressure of the industry to be what they want her to be….. its time for art to be what it is… and not controlled by those who dont understand it…

Nothing but love for all Artist… BE YOU BABIES… they’ll catch up to us.. eventually *Wink*

yawn ^2

Love the message of this song! Can sombody come pay my student loans please! Cause I’m doing that ish.

Can I just say, from her first song about the aliens, she really came out of left feild with that one. That really turned me away. I like this song a lil, it’s different. But honestly, HONESTLY I stroll pass the posts about her and her music since I heard the first single (I think) the one about the aliens. This song should have been the first single. It has a nice vibe and good message. She’ll have to come a little harder for me to go cop the album. Don’t give up, these days it doesn’t take much to win me over musically.

Yay me, cuz I’ve had the EP siince last week!! And it’s pretty good. Janelle is different. And I digg her sound!

It took me a minute to get used to her style, but I really enjoy it. When I hear her music, I feel like she’s actually putting effort into originality rather than just conforming to the norm of what people expect of her. I can appreciate that, because hearing the same lyrics and arrangements from artists can get really annoying. I’m not completely sold on buying the album yet though. I have to at least like half of an album before I purchase it.

I love it.!mY Girl janelle,shes awesome

did someone say, “too original and unique”???? (#9) get out of your boxes, kids! i heard her once and was hooked. beyond a style and a delivery that some people may find “too unique” (whatever that means) at her very core is music. you can’t deny that VOICE. can’t wait to buy the album…..soon as i get off work!

kudos #46. SOME silly americans just can’t get with a new style. soooo sad. i’m sorry, but we can only have so many beyonce spin offs (and i’ma need bee to get with the times too). i mean can we get a little avant-garde (i.e. vanguard) round here?!?! unhang yourself from style and image and get into the M.U.S.I.C. ALL….HATERS…..FALL…..BACK. PERIAHHHD (.)

Ummm…. yeah she is different but wtf is wrong with that… I like how she tells the truth and talks about real issues and not just sex and dancing… is that wat people dont like about her? The fact that she doesn’t talk about superficial things? The fact that her hair is different? The fact that she is just different…

Fact of the matter is.. people are just afraid of change.. and it is evident…

Absolutely love this song!

i love the beat and her wonderful voice it make a good combination

i always have loved music that’s different than the average ‘junk’ that’s on the airwaves these days. she has a unique sound, i’ll give her that. i just MIGHT become a fan

She has really taken me by surprise! I had vaguely noticed her doing some promotional stuff to get her recognized, but didn’t think 2 much of her look as just gimmicky. But once I heard her voice, especially on Mr. President, she is VERY talented. Janelle has the type of voice that can do just about anything (i.e. Jill Scott) she wants it to do!

I wasn’t expecting to pay her 2 much attention, but I think I’m going 2 have 2 add EP 2 the house or at least download some tunes 2 mp3!

How did Diddy get to sign her? I swear if he messes this up for her…I love her innovative sound I think she sounds awesome writing skills… Love her personal style too…even if it’s just for her artiste persona. GO JANELLE!