BONUS: Janelle Monáe On Finding Freedom, Feeling Safe, Double Standards + New Album
Ebro in the Morning Podcast
HOT 97
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Janelle Monáe sits down with Ebro in the Morning for an open conversation on expressing herself freely recently, the evolution of her career, feeling safe, being present in her life, double standards, and much more! Her project, 'The Age of Pleasure' is out now!
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| 0:00.0 | Laura Styles here, check out season 2 of Summer Jam through the years, available on all podcast platforms. |
| 0:06.9 | Get the behind-the-scenes stories from hip-hop's biggest concert, listen to hip-hop history on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | So much to me, always going to see all our favorite artists, everybody on that big Summer Jam stage. |
| 0:36.2 | You never know what you might see at Summer Jam. |
| 1:00.0 | I know, I would love her perspective in here. |
| 1:04.6 | Yes, she's enjoying the rollout, she's enjoying the lipstick, so the new album, you got |
| 1:14.1 | float, which I love, and you got lipstick lover that we've heard so far, but the album obviously out |
| 1:19.7 | today. Out today, oh my god. So those of us that have had, you know, we're on inside, |
| 1:27.0 | but I want you to tell the audience musically, right? Because your last project probably |
| 1:31.6 | leaned a little bit. It was so full-alty a little bit. This feels like it's leaning very |
| 1:38.5 | I don't even know how to describe it, almost like. Did they sing you a link? Did you listen to it? |
| 1:42.4 | Yeah, I heard something, but I wanted you to, I didn't want to, you know, mess up your story. |
| 1:47.4 | I mean, listen, I had just a wonderful, beautiful time with my friends who run this party collective |
| 1:58.7 | everyday people. I know about everyday people. Yeah, of course, DJ MoMo everybody. |
| 2:02.1 | Yes, those are all my friends. Chef Robelay, that's my, that's my, exactly. So those are all my friends |
| 2:06.8 | and they came, this is just how the album would inspire it. They came to LA and I was, you know, |
| 2:15.6 | we have a spot there, Wonderland, and they couldn't find a place to have a party. Do there |
| 2:21.0 | are parties that they do? And I was like, let's do it here. Like we cannot have a whole lot of people, |
| 2:26.0 | but let's test, you know, like a hundred folks, whatever. And we can just, let's do it together here. |
| 2:30.9 | And so I opened up my space to them. And if you go to these everyday people party, you know that |
| 2:36.5 | it's the most beautiful, brown and black people from all over the world, from Nigeria to Ghana, to South |
| 2:43.5 | Africa, to the Caribbean, Jamaica, New York, LA, Atlanta, like it's just beautiful. |
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