But unlike most of the collective pile-ups cluttering the pop landscape these days, the songs feel steered by a single sure and distinctive vision. Monáe co-writes everything here but for a couple of ...

UPDATE: Janelle Monae will release her 44-minute short film Dirty Computer: An Emotion Picture By Janelle Monáe on MTV and BET on April 26th, one day before the release of her new album Dirty Computer ...

As the opener of Janelle Monae’s newest record bursts into its second track, the fluorescent pop-rap fusion of “Crazy Classic Life,” I can hear traces of the expansive synth-crazed ‘80s I was born ...

It might be harder to assign a musical genre to Janelle Monáe’s latest album, “Dirty Computer,” than a literary one. As Monáe weaves together anthemic alt-R&B, acerbic hip hop, and dreamy pop-prog ...

One of the year’s biggest pop albums is finally out: Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer. The coming of this audiovisual extravaganza has been impossible to miss, with deliciously addictive singles “Make ...

TODAY’S musicians know that, like sex, social awareness sells. The work of two stars with arguably the most cultural cachet, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar, weaves personal experience into wider feelings ...

Janelle Monae dropped a video today for “I Like That,” the fourth song to be released from her forthcoming third full-length album and “emotion picture,” “Dirty Computer,” which drops on Friday. She ...

It's been a while since Janelle Monáe’s last album -- 2013's The Electric Lady-- but in that time, Monáe has been coming into her own, an impressive accomplishment for someone who already came across ...

Janelle Monae’s new 44-minute “emotion picture” for “Dirty Computer” will premiere on MTV and BET on April 26, the companies announced. Monae’s album will be released the following day. (View the ...

Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer landed at No. 2 on our 2018 critic poll’s best albums list. Check out the poll here, and our thoughts on the album’s impact below. Although Janelle Monae spent years at ...

Janelle Monáe's collaborative short fiction collection, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer, will be published by Harper Voyager Books on April 19, 2022 Janelle Monáe is ...