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  • I LOVE this woman!

  • aye this my wife fella's back off. lol

    ....i wish...right? lol

  • B.o.B + Janelle Monae = Great Couple. Thumbs up if u agree

  • She has a very soothing voice. Could listen to her speak or sing all day, lol

  • i really want to kiss her

  • Omg shes so beutyfulll

  • She's so talented singing, and so sensual talking. She's too great for words.

  • FINALY,CLASSY BLACK GIRL-ARTIST..

    SO REFRESHING.

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  • where can i get the paintings of cindi mayweather that are in this :D

  • I like her alot. She's not like nikki minaj or beyodle who dress half nake to sell sell sell.

    Only thing though I wish she would let her hair down she would look even more beautiful with long hair or even a bob look. Just mho.

  • She has beautiful eyes.

  • Thats interesting that she was discovered by big boi of outkast cause in her many moons video the way she dances and performs reminds me of andre 3000? Just me?...

    If any of you haven't seen her glastonbury performance OHMYGOD, you have to.

  • She is simply BRILLIANT!!! Great Singer, Great DAncer, Stylish, VERY Creative, and FULLY DRESSED...shes more than ust a sex symbol like most females yet she so BEAUTIFUL

  • She has AMAZING teeth:)

  • Thank you for ruting on the little guys,I'm still trying to let it sink in with what you said about no compromise & not giving up.

  • Reelblack, keeps evolving, thank you for keeping us informed with the purity of our art

  • @snifferdoggy01 thanks 4 supporting!

  • She is unbelievably classy. She doesn't need to dance around stage half naked like most female stars these days to get attention.

  • "Inspiring an entire nation with my imagination"

    -that's EXACTLY what you are doing! We love you limitless.

  • I have the biggest crush on Janelle Monae...more women should be like her...

  • me = in love

  • i dont wanna sound corny but i really feel like she is keeping alive what lauryn hill was doing back in her hay day...not just the uncanny similarities in looks but also emotion, talent, creativity.

  • @matthewjamal Lauren is not dead you know. But I do feel there are many female artists who emulate Lauren's vibe like Jill Scott, Indie Arie and Janelle

  • @whateverman181 i mean, if you READ what i said...i never mentioned her being dead. But you are correct though i agree on that.

  • @matthewjamal Yeah, well I've sort of adopted the perspective that maybe Lauryn was just one of the first "surfers" on this particular wave! She stopped "paddling back out" to ride it, but Erykah and Janelle are more than capable of doing that for us :-) I just hope Janelle stays away from the media and recognizes that the evil side of it will come "gunning for her", the more herself she becomes. Erykah will figuratively "cut dey asses" if they do, so I feel good 'bout that :-)

  • she is AMAZING!

  • omg u have NO IDEAAAAA!!!! I WAS JUST talking to someone about how are any artists gonna be real and be about art!!?! BRING THEIR OWN STYLE AND WHOLE SELF to the table without adjusting to sell!? TO INSPIRE AND TO CHANGE LIVES INSTEAD OF JUST SELL!?!?!?! TO NOT HAVE TO DRESS PROMISCIOUS TO SELL???? YOU AMAZING JANELLE MONAE.!

  • Either music 'artists' are reducing humans to beasts (bumping n grinding away) or they're reducing them to robots, or they're creating iconic androgenous/ hermaphroditic alter egos for the masses of fools to emulate and fawn over - Bowie was an early example. And people lap it up and can't get enough of it...

    If someone covers a turd in icing sugar and decorates it attractively, it's still a turd...

    (Sorry for interrupting the Janelle Appreciation Society daily lovefest) ;)

  • @umaralansari are speaking of MK ALTRA?

  • @Blaqrosse No. Why would MK Ultra - a project to create assassins - have anything to do with this? I was talking generally about the dehumanising influences in music.

  • She is amazing.

  • She's a genius. She speaks in a sophisticated way. Unfortunately these days, genius is under-appreciated in the American society.

  • @leston4life Now anyone with an IQ of 120 is a genius..."Wow! I can speak in a sophisticated way!" Sorry, Beethoven, Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Pythagoras, Archemedis, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein...these people were genius'. If you wish to continue going down the path of diluting the meaning of such a great word, until it can no longer be comprehended by anyone other than those of an imbecilic and insensately state, and widen the proverbial box as it were...Michael Jackson.

  • @MrCrazyb23 Ok dude and or dudette quit being a poopy head you know what he or she was meanig by saying that

  • What I get from those words is this... FIND YOU, BE YOU, AND THEN DO YOU. Because when you do, it will always inspire... maybe a few, maybe many, but one thing is for sure, chasing an image that is not you will take you down a road that ends with you eventually loosing you. Hollywood and the music industry is littered with casualties that eventually lost themselves.

  • Man...You want to be with Janelle,you got to go to the gym boy! That girl run laps around ya! You see her get down on stage! I swear I didn't see that girl take one breath,she's not human! God,Micheal Jackson,James Brown must of Blessed her ass! Cause Dahhhmmn! Girl ain't no Joke!!!!

  • well done ;)

  • She has the most beautiful skin, OMG! She is gorgeous!

  • Janelle for president ! :-)

  • shes very energetic and adventurous

  • I'm am so proud of this young women. God Bless her and be with her in an industry that can be deceiving, unforgiving and just plain mean. I just hope she follows her dreams.

  • The world needs more artists like her. Someone who spreads a TRUE positive message; not some cookie cutter one just to make themselves look good when all they want is money and fame. Someone who talks about respect and carries themselves with respect. You can't go around talking about one thing (i.e. abstinence) while prancing around half naked with various implants. I'm talking to you Nicki Minaj and the others like you. Keep spreading the truth and praising God, Janelle. Dont ever change!

  • @fatesangel Amen! *Applauds*

    Couldn't agree more!

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  • she is like a black charlize theron only smarter

  • @oakleywellington

    Retard yankees and their racial comparisons... she's not 'like' anything. She's Janelle.

  • @1llain i'm white fuckhead

  • 5 people have parkinsons

  • What Video was that ?

  • Intellect... beauty... love.

    She is here to save us.

  • she's beautiful, in every meaning of the word. And so unique! This just goes to show that you DON'T have to, say, emerge from an egg, or wear meat on your head to be different and individual.

  • I love her eyebrows. WOMEN: Don't shave, pluck or wax the sh*t out of your eyebrows!!! It looks TERRIBLE!!!

  • she has the natural black beauty like lauren hill, mix with a Andre 3000 and a dash of Frankie Lymon.

  • I want her to marry me so much!!

  • great woman. beautiful sweet voice

  • 2:17 - 2:26 ... fell in love with her

  • The eniterty of her Metropolis movement is amazing. Janelle Monae has a vivid imagination that is rivaled only by Tim Burton himself. The message(s) that are voiced on the ArchAndroid album are inspiring. Music with no boundaries is brought forth at it's most rare form. I will continue to support your music and message. By the way, you are truly tthe epitamy of beauty.

  • She's such an amazing person

  • she so bad

  • @RecreationalAddias No she's not.

  • 2 brilliant brilliant concept album under her belt!

  • Man I love this girl.....

  • Interview background quit messes it all up, besides shes a superstar

  • wow shes beautiful

  • MUSIC OF THE HEART AND SOUL JANELLE MONAE HAS GOD SPEAKING THRU HER...LOVE HER SO MUCH

  • @reeeltalk what?? are you serious??

  • @uhohitsMiKEY im deadly serious you need 2 digest some of her metaphors and content then u will understand

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  • @uhohitsMiKEY maybe you should take it to therapy. personally im not interested in the gimmick aspect ...but i find her a breath of fresh air&having digested her music (when at first when i saw her video from her e.p) i was totally turned around by the archandroid and the POINT is she is now on a platform surpassing youtube sharing it so more people will take notice. im sure there was apoint when she was in your position. SHARE YOUR CONTENT and if its ment 2 ppl will feel it as much as this!

  • @uhohitsMiKEY you also cannot take away that her music is deep and introspective much moreso than what is normally being given 2 the consumer...so if you feel what you have 2 offer is better then offer it. you cannot take away from her expression, art and class just cuz she draws inspiration from her predessors. dont hate congratulate she is a rare breed of artist!

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  • @reeeltalk Janelle Monae; great artist. Genius? Neeehhh.

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  • ......GOD WHAT BEAUTIFULLY PRETTY EYES THIS WONDERWOMAN  HAS...... !!!!!!

  • my obsession with her is a little unhealthy!!! hahaha i just feel like i can relate to her so much there is no one i know as imaginative of creative or driven.

  • sincerely jane <3

  • is she a robot? cool.

  • @LauraGomesMovies are you trying to hate?

  • @LauraGomesMovies nope- this girl is amazingxx

  • love most of the music she makes, but sometimes the metropolis theme feels like a gimic. Just too much in your face, style over substance sometimes.

  • she grew up around a rough environment, yet she can still be a creative force in music unlike some of these one-dimensional rappers.

  • YOU INSPIRE ME WITH YOUR IMAGINATION. THERE IS HOPE FOR GIRLS LIKE ME> siggghhhs. <3 Overwhelmed with awesome.

  • beautiful

  • i'm very much in love with this woman

  • boo! pew!

  • she is a true artist, technically much better than lady gaga, katy perry and all those fashion-singers. i always want to throw myself in the air when i hear her music.

  • LOVE this girl. I'm not really into her music, but I love her talent. She's beautiful, has an amazing voice, she's wildly creative (ironically, this is probably the reason I can't get into her music....at least not all of it) and is intelligent. Saw her in concert with B.o.B and her voice blew me away. Would love to see her do some equally epic, more 'typical" R&B with that voice, something that would demonstrate her gift to the mainstream audience, and expand her fan base, not sellout.

  • Goddess!! Why are so many people sleeping on her talent??

  • love you janelle continue doing the best you can

  • she is really pretty too

  • Unbelievable, what a woman!

  • Erykah, Jill, Adriana, Julie, NDambi, Meet your other Intelligent, Creative little sister.

  • 6:07  Yes. I am also excited about this.

  • She is 2 words: Super.Natural.

  • WHOUW! A TRUE ARTIST!!!

  • Love her.... ! her music is very different and all of her songs have an underlining message... Oh yeah she's from KANSAS CITY TOO!!!!!!! thats pretty big to me... cuz im from there =)

  • I LOVE YOU.

  • She is amazing creative, talented, inspiring and intellectual. She is not trying to be a "star" she is trying to star a revolution. She is a revolutionary and I pray many blessings upon her. She is the one who can actually SAVE music and the antithesis to the same ole, dry, dead, thoughtless, tacky and whorish images that are constantly shoved in our ear gates. She has a wonderful personality and attitude and conviction. I have to buy her album and I don't buy "secular" music which she isn't.

  • Quite refreshing to hear this young lady as it almost seems like she's from another planet.  Speaks with conviction and truly sings from the heart (no boobs or a*&) hanging out--ala Beyonce'. Keep doing ur thing as many of us love what ur bringing to the industry!!!

  • Yes I will stay true to my art and never compromise I will be da best dancer I possibly can be thanks for inspiering young teenagers like me I luv u janelle monae!!!

  • Urgh. Kansas City. That just sounds depressing.

  • im so glad to hear this from her :) and im glad that an amazing artist like her is doing this along with god.. she is so blessed and i know she will stay like this :) - I am a current V2W member and we performed to one of her songs, please look at it.... THANX YOUTUBE! just type in V2W Tight Rope; S.N. I pray that one day she will see this video and be incredibly amazed by it..... !!!

  • what a biscuit.shes friggin cool as f--k: )

  • She's so beautiful. Mind, body and soul baby.

  • Man, i cant wait to she gets desperate and start taking more clothes of with each new album. All the female singers do this. Tony Braxton clothes got more skimpy as her career progressed. I like Angie Stone. She is not a looker, but has a voice that stand out. Plus, who wanna see Angie stone half ass naked ??

  • lol beautiful girl with swagger and shows no skin none what so ever trust me i checked DAMN!

  • JANELLE...You ARE a SUPERSTAR...

    INSPIRED and INSPIRING...

    YES, bring your SOUL forth...

    YOU are changing the world!

    WE LIKE YOU THE WAY YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!

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  • She sort of reminds me of the Gwen Stafani and Erykah Badu love child. It's odd but when I see her it's like looking at both Gwen and Erykah... anyway I love her music.

  • I love a woman who respects herself. She is SO beautiful!!!

  • She speaks so pretty.

  • Infatuated <3

  • She really is a gem in many ways.

    I discovered her in concert in LA and was very impressed by her voice, performance, grace, her amazing musicians. Gorgeous! Thank you!

  • nice interview.

  • a new Grace Jones...really exciting!

  • she's so friccin creative, she makes my mind wonder..I love you Janelle you inspire me to keep my youth

  • She is beautiful inside and out. Finally an artist with class, talent and her own unique style.

  • great lady!

  • She needs to get with the people who produced Madonna and Brittany Spears! Then she would really blow up. I don't think badboy is the right home for her! She could be huge! I'd like to see her get HUGE!! World wide!

  • this concept should be a movie, she should be the star and her music the soundtrack with LUPE FIASCO, B.O.B, and Gnarles Barkley to name a few 

  • Superb stuff -this girl will go far -great songs- great ideas-got it all -great looks great songs-values her her art-got great dance moves and still young ...hope the industry and fame dont get the better of her.

    keep doing what you do kiddo

  • She's from KCK

    Rep the dotte.

  • I see the Grace Jones influence in her style.

  • Not even sure you can label this as R&B. She infuses elements of so many different styles that it becomes it's own separate genre. She is absolutely magnificent. Not to mention real easy to look at.

  • This kinda of talent hittn mainstream media is like at the end of a tunnel

  • dat fag diddy hops on anything he think'll be big money!! cant satnd him! lovely,talented beautiful woman by the way ;D

  • Sounds like she is mirroring the image of an illuminati puppet. In the first minute....when shes explaining the meaning.

  • The difference between Janelle and the others, is that Janelle is warning us about the new world order, and the androids, and microchips, etc. Lady gaga in the others are actually worshipping the new world order i everything it withholds,janelle has found a equilibrium, a balance so that the illuminati can not touch her, this woman is clever!!!!!!! the proof is in her lyrics

  • @Eloheimisnear She is on another level the hoe culture is not a part of her act

  • @Amerikaten I think you should pay a little more attention on her lyrics then her image, that whats wrong with america is alll about the outer appearance. If you lissten to her lyrics in all her music it is about the revolutionizing, exposing the evil amongst us, fighting for our freedom, matter a fact in one of her songs she Quote"New World Order Anyone" yes her image is an act, but I think that she is an Activist so of course it's a Clever act to get peoples attention..Brillant aint she?

  • @Eloheimisnear thank you, finally someone who understands

  • She is so inspiring!! She is an angel in human form!

  • Imagination inspires nations. Thanks!

  • I am simply in love with the Unique, Aware, and Original: Janelle Monea!! Check this Young Lady out.....

  • Love her!

  • Run Nicki RUN!!!!!!!!

  • she's totally drama. i'd love to see her on stage or even on broadway. i'm happy there's so many 'fearless' young female artist like her coming on in the. janelle monae seems a uniquecreative spirit, though. Blessed with gorgeos voice, too. let's hope she'll have a long live recording many more songs. bless her!

  • I love the message she sends.

    So positive and inspiring.

    We need more women like this in the music industry to show how music is really done.

    It still amazes me to see a 6 year old singing every word in a nicki minaj song.

  • Janelle Monae is definitely a product of the Big Band era/ Rat pack era. She's done her research on performance also. There's experimental elements from the late 70's in there mixed in. I wouldn't be surprised if she suddenly jumped over and pulled off some Funkadelic. Very interesting.

  • Janelle Monae is definitely a product of the Big Band era/ Rat pack era. She's done her research on performance also. There's experimental elements from the late 70's in there mixed in. I wouldn't be surprised if she suddenly jumped over and pulled of some Funkadelic. Very interesting.

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  • SO DIFFERENT! SO TALENTED! SO BLACK! SO BEAUTIFUL! I LOVE IT!

  • She inspires me so much! I love her, she just gah I can't even explain how awesome she is haha!

    I love how she accepts learning new things and dreaming!! She just....rocks! <3

  • A gem among this trash we call music nowadays. Not only is she gorgeous and talented, but she's brought true heart back to R&B music as well as putting her own unique taste to it. She's an inspiration for someone as young as her!

  • whats the name of the song about kansas city 

  • In love with her mind above all else, damn. (and the "all else" is easy on the eyes true)

  • great great great words girl.. thanks! i love it!

  • She looks a little bit like Lauryn Hill in her hay day. Stunning x

  • I am SOO in love *sighs* <3

  • Ur cool...keep being bold and fearless, there's genius and beauty in it!

  • It's such a relief to see somebody who's got a strong enough voice to be playful with it... unlike a lot of current pop stars who need help just singing in their little range from the last hit.

  • ilOveHer! she is dOpe!

  • I love this Lady. She is amazingly talented and really beautiful as well. Watch out Beyonce and all you other plastic fantastics Janelle is on the loose!

  • They should make a movie about her alter ego! Starring Janelle Monae! She's so beautiful and I respect her so much for retaining her dignity in the corrupt music industry of today.

  • Janelle Monae' is absolutley fabulous full on energy and imagination! I feel she will give all female artists a run for thier money. No synthasized smoke and mirrors here....true tallent from her heart, mind and soul to you! Janelle has a head on her shoulders and she plans to use it! She is going to be a trail blazer simply by design. She is Grace Jones, Michael Jackson, Madonna, James Brown, Lena Horn and many more all in one! Check her out....

  • The first 30 seconds had me str8 trippin

  • Have'nt seen a artist this creative since Erykah Badu or Jill Scott.

  • Kinda a throwback to Grace Jones & David Bowie ( 70's era) art rock...I like it....this Generation needs an artist like this..

  • she's my hero. so inspirational

  • THis is a badass bitch! I LOVE YOU MIss MONAE!!!!!!!

  • i love her but once the god thing came along at the end, it soured my milk.

  • @acf870 Why?

  • I love Janelle Monae....I listen to her music everyday. The first time I heard her I was hooked. True natural talent.....point blank. This is what we need right now. Real inspiration.

  • I fucking love this woman. She's real as they get. beautiful, gorgeous, full of light!

  • I may be too old to truly appreciate her brand of music, but she does seem very talented. That face is like the sun. You can't look at it straight on. She is simply beautiful.

  • @kenjohnsonmusic ur never too old to appreciate the music.

  • @kenjohnsonmusic no ur not too old, her album samples sounds from so many styles spanning the 20th century so its hard not to be in on something.

  • she is beautiful...it seems inside as well as out

  • TRUE artist!

    

  • I think I'm in love. I can dig a woman that can keep her clothes on and sell her musical talent and not her ass!

  • @OmegaOrtega Kuddos to you brotha!

  • @OmegaOrtega thats deep

  • She is putting dark skinned black girls on the map. She is pretty as hell dam!!!!!

  • "I do the things that I feel most passionate about, and the things that I can rest and sleep at night, um, about without feeling like I'm trying or following something just so I can be famous. It's not about that." This line of thinking is what elevates Janelle above the pop pantheon today.