Right this moment (June 9), Janelle Monae swims again into the limelight with Age of Pleasure, her first album in 5 years.
The predecessor to her 2018 acclaimed effort Soiled Computer systems is 14 tracks deep and consists of options from Grace Jones, CKay, Amaarae, Doechii, and extra. Her single, “Lipstick Lover,” stays a sticky summer season jam that sparked conversation since its launch final month.
“That music, ‘Lipstick Lover,’ I’m like, ‘Why didn’t I write this music years in the past?’ As a result of if you understand me … Right this moment, I don’t have on any pink lipstick, however I’m all the time in pink lipstick. And there have been so many cases the place I’ve made out with any person at a celebration, and it’s darkish,” she stated in her interview with Zane Lowe following the music’s launch. “No one notices it. However when the lights come on, whoever I’ve made out with, lipstick throughout their face. After which I’ve additionally been on the receiving finish of a human … who’s so engaging. … Or I’ll get house, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God. I’ve lipstick throughout my face.’ And I’ve additionally been the ‘Lipstick Lover’ the place … you understand precisely who I kissed.”
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Monae additionally defined to Lowe how the songs from her new album got here from honesty.
“All of the songs have been written from such an trustworthy house,” she started. “And what I’m tremendous enthusiastic about with The Age of Pleasure. The Age of Pleasure is that … Hear, I’ve had my age of melancholy. I’ve had my age of hysteria. I’ve had my age of battle. And once more, it’s not like life is pleasurable each single day, however I believe I’ve actively simply sought out … How do I create an area for myself? How do I redirect my thoughts on how I’m serious about issues? How do I understand that proper now, on this current second, moments that we’ll by no means get again, that is the place it’s essential discover your pleasure? That is your second. Don’t let it get confused that 5 minutes later, we’re going to strive to enter doing one thing completely different. And once more, that is simply my expertise the place I’m at; regardless that, regardless of what I could also be going by, there’s going to be a second the place this dangerous second, I gained’t even be round to even talk about it. I gained’t.”
Stream Age of Pleasure beneath.
