Good day to you, cyber boys and robot girls. As I, uh, may have mentioned, just every so slightly, yesterday-today’s the day. Today’s the day. Today’s the day.
Today’s the day Janelle Monae gets all Cyndi Mayweather futuretro-like on your ass.
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To celebrate the long, long long long LONG awaited release of her Metropolis Suite , Janelle’s taking it back to where it began with a free show at Criminal Records (this is Atlanta, folks, and it’s where you should be, at least today, because it’s where the heroes are less scraggly-hair and more alien princess) tonight at 7 P.M.
I think the Pointer Sisters’”Number Song” from Sesame St. must have subconsciously slipped into Janelle’s head with the “Doo doo…”. “1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12″. The songs cool though. She seems to be on Andre 3000 vibe sans the southern drawl.