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Janelle Monáe & Nate Wonder
Janelle Monáe has had a lot to smile about this year. After a run of successful albums over the last decade, in June she released her fourth album, The Age of Pleasure. The album was just nominated for two Grammys including Album of the Year. This project is important—it signaled a big tone shift for Janelle whose past albums have centered in part around a recurring character named Cyndi Mayweather, an android who represents society’s new “other.”
Esthetically Janelle has always been buttoned up. For her first few album releases she made a point of always appearing in public in some iteration…
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