Brevity and directness are not Janelle Monáe's things. Her albums, when they arrive, are vast and sprawling and messily ambitious. In the past, she's collided R&B with new wave and Broadway and ...

In “Pynk,” a single from Janelle Monae’s third full-length, “Dirty Computer,” she sings, “Pink beyond forest and thighs/ Pink like the secrets you hide, maybe.” Its video a bold celebration of lady ...

Put some champagne in your chalice and find a comfortable seat on the couch because on Thursday, April 26 Janelle Monáe is premiering her Dirty Computer short film. The 44-minute "emotion pic," as she ...

In a new sci-fi book, musician Janelle Monáe expands on themes from her Grammy-nominated album "Dirty Computer" to tell stories about a community of individuals whose identities are being erased. The ...

Janelle Monáe fans can finally take a deep look into the R&B songstress’ clever mind in the form of a defiant and bugged computer. In Monáe’s first two studio albums she remained somewhat elusive, ...

After coming out to Rolling Stone and giving a very open and insightful interview to The Breakfast Club, Janelle Monae caps off her week with the release of her highly anticipated third studio LP, ...

Janelle Monáe rarely goes more than a few minutes on her new album, “Dirty Computer,” without evoking the hardship and injustice that color the American experience for so many. Police violence, pay ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "Dirty computers don't see their bugs and viruses as negatives," says Monáe. "They ...

The album cover for Janelle Monáe's 2018 album "Dirty Computer." (Courtesy of the artist) In the breathless buildup to Janelle Monáe’s long-awaited third album “Dirty Computer,” a narrative took hold.

vocalizing her support for women without vaginas.At the end of the day, Dirty Computer is a beautiful love story, in every sense of love. In “Screwed,” Monáe sings about sex and power, concluding that ...

Janelle Monáe took the 2019 Grammy Awards stage to perform the Dirty Computer single “Make Me Feel.” The performer is up for Album of the Year at tonight’s ...

The artist builds on the Afrofuturistic world from her 2018 album in a new short story collection titled The Memory Librarian. She tells NPR about... Janelle Monáe's 'Dirty Computer' comes alive in a ...