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You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week we're going to dive into a classic album

dissection of war's 1972 classic The World Is a Ghetto. We'll be talking with war, frontman,

and songwriter Lottie Jordan about all of it. I'm Jim DeWergottis and I'm Greg Kott,

but first some new music from Janelle Monet and Jenny Lewis.

Float all of my float all of this club, I don't step, I don't want, I don't dance, I just float.

That is a little bit of a song called Lottie that opens the new album from Janelle Monet.

The fourth studio effort from this artist, it is called The Age of Pleasure. Greg, Janelle Monet,

Robinson, Singer, Rapper, Actress. It first made a splash in the music world, Lottie, with a demo

album in 2003, but you and me became major fans with her first proper album, The Arc, Android,

and have remained so ever since. The first three albums, A Trio of Concept Records about this robotic

character, The Arc, Android, followed by the electric lady and dirty computer, and now something

rather different, which we'll get into in a minute. But first, a word about the acting career,

Glass Onion, The Second Knives Out movie, did you see it?

I did. Very entertaining evening of cinema, that's for sure.

They were fantastic hidden figures, also a great movie. I say they,

because Janelle Monet identifies as non-binary and pansexual, and now album number 4 at age 37,

once again produced by a collective of friends, very talented musicians and producers,

that they call the Wonderland Arts Collective. Let's play a track from The Age of Pleasure.

This is called Lipstick Lover, and then we'll give our reviews. Here is Janelle Monet.

This is called The Arc, Android, followed by the electric lady and dirty computer,

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