Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer (April 27, 2018) Album • Page 10

It's all good haha I was just genuinely thrown off cus I didn't mean it mean at all. I just really really love this album

 

I think I'm just so unaccustomed to this style of music that I need to give it a few more listens before I can fully appreciate it.

 

I saw you said that you were wondering if this record was your thing or not, but this comment makes me feel like it might just need togrow on you? I say that because, I think this record is pretty diverse in its sound. Which would make sense if you don’t listen to a ton of stuff like this, I think. Hopefully it clicks or something, I love this record

 

So this album still fucks

 

It's fallen off for me a fair amount.

 

Still my favorite album of the year.

 

Screwed-Django Jane-Pynk-Make Me Feel is honestly the strongest 4 song run I can think of in recent memory, honestly unreal

 

this is kinda crazy good

 

pynk is so good

 

I'm so glad this popped up in my notifications I'm listening to it again and it's so gooooooooood fuck

 

Yeah this album is tight as hell

 

I still can’t get over the transition from Crazy Classic Life to Take A Byte. It kills me every time. The whole sequence from Dirty Computer to Django Jane just transitions flawlessly. Like all the songs on the album are amazing, but the flow of that stretch is unbelievable.

 

I’d stretch that from Dirty to Make Me Feel, all absolutely stunning

 

Yea for sure idk I mean im talking about the transitions specifically. Like every one of the first six songs flows right into the other. Pynk to me is the first song that feels like the song changed instead of just that the album continuing. If that makes sense? But it doesn’t mean Pynk or any of the following songs are not as good of songs.

 

the Screwed to Django Jane transition always gets me super hyped, and having "let's get screwed" come back at the end of Django, the two of those songs specifically feel like one piece

 

How did I miss that "Make Me Feel" is a Julia Michaels/Justin Tranter jam? They are unstoppable

 

Album has held up really well for me.
Difficult to believe Pitchfork gave this a gushing review and it scored a 7. Then today they savaged the new Kanye album, and that also got a 7. To read both reviews you'd think one was a 9 and the other a 3.

 

Pitchfork should get rid of the # rating system. I pretty much ignore it on every review and I recommend every one else should too.

 

i like it because it allows you to understand what they politically think of things. you shouldn't take it seriously when it comes to quality

 

I think that's def true in the case of the Ye review, but it actually just makes me angry. They didn't have the guts to just give it a 5 or whatever, as if there's a difference between a 6.9 and 1.0. Certainly when you read that review a passing 7 is way too generous and misleading.

 

that's why you don't take it seriously and is it more as a passing curiosity in a way to analyze what trends they're looking for instead

 

What do you mean by the rating indicating a trend analysis?

 

the ratings are more editorial choices rather than quality ones, the albums they decide to rate certain things leads to the trends they are trying to push, regardless of quality. you'll see pop records now that if they came out years ago wouldn't have even gotten a review. big indie rock records aren't shoe ins for BNM anymore. at the very least, for me, it's interesting following these trends of music criticism as opposed to taking them seriously and personal

 

I looked at her setlist from last night and wow:

She actually does all of Dirty Computer I wasn't expecting that, plus still throws in the classics, though I do wish there were a couple more ArchAndroid tunes

This is going to be the show of the year.

 

"Thompson features prominently in the glossy, album-length music video accompanying Monáe’s Dirty Computer, one of the most buzzed-about releases of 2018 so far. “Isn’t it such a good record? I am so proud to have been involved,” she beams.

The album is a riotous celebration of femininity, queerness, sexual fluidity and self-acceptance, with gleefully homoerotic content, including Thompson poking her head through the legs of Monáe’s ‘vagina’ trousers in the unashamedly suggestive video for the single Pynk. “I get text messages from friends that are like, ‘Would you please let Janelle know I came out to my family because of her?’” enthuses Thompson. “I think that work is really helping people and probably saving some lives.
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