Check out singer Janelle Monáe’s album cover for “The ArchAndroid” above. The new release is in stores on May 18th and here is the background story that goes along with the cover release:
Whether or not the following information came from Ryan Wakeman, WARPA, the Gaiming community or Janelle Monáe’s journals, Max Stellings and the Palace of the Dogs Archives is inconclusive at this time…What is known or agreed upon is that this information stems from an official entry on The ArchAndroid Crown in the Living Cyktionary, a 28th Century encyclopedia…
The ArchAndroid Crown: Designed by Zoman Ignatius, the half-elf, half-human mystic, reportedly 500 years ago. According to legend, the crown has several magic properties, as well as innovative technologies that can be employed only by The ArchAndroid. Zoman was a consummate inventor, artist and sculptor, a cross between Tesla and Da Vinci, and as such, he designed the crown to be a work of beauty that would embody the very spirit of Metropolis. According to legend, the crown features prominent Metropolis buildings and towers that will light up radiantly when the one and only true ArchAndroid wears the crown. According to the Daily Horos, this opulent headdress was stolen from the vaults in the Black House, reportedly by 1954, in October of 2715. Several members of 1954 were hunted down and executed for this crime. But the crown was never found. Many claim it has been secreted away to the Wonderground. There is also word that in the year 2010, several 1954 operatives have crafted a replica of this historic headdress to be worn by Janelle Monáe in anticipation for her album The ArchAndroid…no word on whether or not this replica has magic properties… The Living Cyktionary, 9th Edition, 2719
Overrated!!
I’ll be buying this…I LOVE Janelle. And she is so underrated musically, and in regard to her beauty. She is a naturally beautiful woman….people get too distracted by her hair…LOL. But she is so fine, IMO.
i LOVE that cover. if she is putting in effort to put herself on the map then shes definitly going places. you go girl! or android..
Kelis and Erykah both had similar album covers. Maybe it’s a fad?
Why is Janelle so fascinated with Metropolis and ArchAndroid?
Tightrope is the sh*t.. I hope it blows up like Outkasts’s Hey Ya did in
@Circa-1984 thats what i wanna know too…
anyway shes so jarring and overrated, but i have to admit her face looks pretty on the cover.
#4 prolly bc she is part of the illumanti.
she is very much into her sh!t an its hard for ppl who are used to the typical songz on radio to connect with her even though she is great, but I can understand that sometimes when its just too drastically different, ppl wont have the time to follow. Good luck to her though. I wish radios will play 50% typial pop r&b and 50%other genres on a daily basis, no one gives them a chance exceptin a few ppl! smh
Apparently Guru passed on, is this true Angel?….
THOUGHT THAT WAS MICHELLE WILLIAMS FROM DESTINY CHILD
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT JUDAH HAS TO SAY ABOUT THIS ONE.
She is really pretty in the face but just too weird for me…then again most pretty chicks are crazy anyway.
Being a sci-fi geek I definitely dig the concept, but I wish the cover was a little more original.
When I saw this cover; All I saw was ERYKAH BADU lol
Her song tightrope is ok.
Where is her fanbase though?? Really…
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She wasn’t like this when she first came out.I guess folks do anything.
flawless face…
That album cover is SICKENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHE IS PRETTY AND HAS A NICE VOICE BUT I’M REALLY OVER THE TUXEDOS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HER DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
i think just for the purposes asthetics i would have left the album title off… it’s a little much. or at least, i may have done it a little differently; but i guess that’s one of the reasons i’m not janelle monae, huh?
DON’T KNOW WHO SHE IS, BUT SHE IS PRETTY.
My God this is so cool! People are tried of the stupid shit when it come to music! I kept saying that this decade would be the music decade! So glad to see a kool ass art cover, as well to hear good music! Bring damn it, bring it!
She just annoys me so much…
loving the album cover! can’t wait to check the album out
WACK.
Janelle Monae is the little engine that can’t.
Let me school those of you who seem to have no taste in music. Janelle Monae is a TRUE vocalist who doesn’t need to rely on her tits and ass to garner fans. She can SANG her ass off and she puts most of these pop princesses to shame.
And as far as the comparisons to Erykah and Kelis, she respects both artists but has copied neither. Get it right!
Buy her album May 18th. I pre ordered my copy!!!
Another alien-attack!!!!
OMG!!! I cannot wait! This album is going to be amazing. And for anyone who thinks she’s copying Erykah Badu. Ms Badu has said shes a big fan of Janelle Monae and when Metropolis: The Chase came out Erykah said she wished she made an album like that. There’s no hate between the artists, there’s room for all
This album cover SLAYS the others!!!
I see the janelle haters are out in full force today.
BUT YOU CAN NOT HATE ON THAT FLAWLESS FACE!!!
Regardless she is the shit and her ALL of her songs are the business.
Not that trash you bitches must listen to.
Illuminati—
I like Janelle!
She’s different and not that “Weird” different
She just does whats comfortable for her and its not too over the top like that Lady Gaga bish or even Kelis sometimes..
I hope her album does well..
She’s deserving..
Go Janelle!
While the cover is nice, it’s puts me in the mind of Erykah Badu and Kelis’s cover. Everyone is on this “robotic machine” type of look now. It’s getting a little annoying. I understand that folks want to stand out and do something different. But, when you start to see more than one person doing it, how original can it be? I liked album or CD covers that were simple. It looks as if people are trying too hard now.
metropolis..that all ima say. google it.
she likes metropolis so much because she is a part of the illuminati robot/mind control agenda. She is an illuminati puppet. Like someone said earlier, google metropolis and you will find out exactly what it’s about. Bet you won’t think it is so “creative” then.
Am i reading into this right?
Am i seeing this right? I see comments seeing the same as i am seeing this.
Illuminati? Beyonce, Eryikah, now Janelle.
I know someone else …….Fergie.
What is going on?
all of the album covers are the same because they want to bring Transhumanism to the pubic. Transhumanism is turning humans into machines, controlled beings that have special abilities from technology. Its no coincidence that Christina, Erykah, Kelis, etc have the same album covers. This stuff is becoming to blatant now because the elite knows that people are dumb, we think everything is cute now…. Surrogates/Terminator/Metropolis/Robocop, these are all movies that have geared us for the type of action. Google Transhumanism and you will find that there are magazines dedicated to this technology.
Love it! Cant wait for the album to drop! We need more Janelle’s in the world and less Beyonce’s.
@37 hmmmmm
- transhuman 2012! get ready.
My first thought seeing this album cover was MICHAEL JACKSON’s REMEMBER THE TIME video !!! right ?
lol, love it
@ 37
You know, you might be on to something. I read Janelle’s interview on another blog and when describing her “significant other” she defined them as an “android”. An android is basically a machine with human features. I love “Tightrope” but Janelle is just odd, and I don’t mean that in a good way.
nice cover
Cute, can’t wait.
@ NELLY GIRL
Dont forget Christina Aguilerra(spell check). Have you seen her new album cover> Her face is half her’s and half machine.
This is no coincidence people! Her and Beyonce is into the who metropolis theme! Look up metropolis as well as what the symbol was behind it when she was made..(Just incase you dont look it up, it was the symbol they use in the church of SATAN)
WHOLE* not “who”, Sorry
Lord people read into sh*t to much. Why can’t she just have a cover like this JUST BECAUSE!!! Leave the lady alone geez!!! She is doing her thing, and the thing she does I LOVE!!! I can’t waaaait for the album!!!!
Her first album was CALLED METROPOLIS!!! idiots.
THIS album is a continuation of that.
She been doing this waaaaaay before beyonce, christina, erykah or whomever else you wanna name.
Thank You #45!!! She is an ARTIST. Do yall understand the concept of creativity? WTH?
Storytelling has existed for centuries and it will continue well beyond our years. Don’t take yourselves so seriously. Just listen to the story and look for parallels in our world. The messages in her songs are uplifting all while yall sit on here and scratch your heads in confusion over a sci-fi concept album. Read a damn book!
These people touting this “illuminati” crap in the comment sections are either extremely naive/impressionable, completely ignorant, or apart of some group of religious wingnut conspiracy theorists. METROPOLIS: 1. A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest.
2. A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity: a great cultural metropolis.
So I guess Superman is in the illuminati too? GTFOH!
Cute cover…what about the music? Is it me or do she look like Michelle Williams from Destinys Child
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wow thanks to airbrush and makeup…best i seen her look here!
She’s beautiful and I like Tight Rope!
I love this cover. She looks like the goddess she is. l sooooooo look forward to the album. I pre ordered my copy and I encourage you all to do the same thing. We have to support true vocalists like Janelle if we want to maintain the integrity of black music.
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I love Janelle soooooooooooooo much. I wish her all the best. I really do : )
Being the science fiction fan I am, I of course adore Janelle Monae. I want to marry her. I am saving up money now to buy ad space on MTV to propose to her.
This cover is simply devine.
Buy her album people!!!
I love you Janelle…
She is amazing. I am at a loss for words. I can’t even describe her beauty or her voice.
I’m in love.
Janelle Monae restores my faith in music. I became so bitter with what I was hearing on the radio that I went on strike from new artists.
She is the best.
I can’t wait to get the album. I pre ordered and you all should too!
Oh that cover is EPIC!!!
In a November 2009 interview, Monáe revealed the title and concept behind her upcoming album, The Arch Android. The album is set to be released on the 18th of May 2010 . The second and third suites of “Metropolis” will be combined into a full-length release, in which Monáe’s alter-ego, Cindi Mayweather—also the protagonist of Metropolis: The Chase Suite—will become a messiah-esque figure to the android community of Metropolis.
A Messiah-esque figure???? hmmm…