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All it takes is listening to a few tracks of Janelle Monáe’s music (or watching her music videos) to grasp hold of the multifaceted, Afrofuturistic energy coursing through nearly every aspect of the artist’s work. For her set at this year’s Coachella, though, Monáe made a point of making sure…
Black Panther is a fantastic movie for so many reasons — one being that it made certain people notice there were already so many sci-fi and fantasy stories being told outside the default we’d been served for so long. Our sister site io9 recently spotlighted , and now we’ve got…
When you play one of Janelle Monáe’s albums, you aren’t just taking a winding tour through the musical influences that have shaped the artist’s intoxicating, soul-piercing voice. You’re tapping into a part of an expansive Afrofuturist saga about identity, revolution, time travel, and (of course) androids.
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