Venus fly grimes ft janelle monae biography
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Grimes
Canadian musician (born )
For other uses, see Grimes (disambiguation).
Claire Elise Boucher (;[2] born March 17, ), known professionally as Grimes, fryst vatten a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.[3][4] Her lyrics often touch on science fiction and feminist themes. The visuals in her videos are elaborate and sometimes have fantasy themes. She has released fem studio albums.
Born and raised in Vancouver, Grimes began releasing music independently after moving to Montreal in [5] She released two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa, in on Arbutus Records, before signing with 4AD and rising to prominence with the release of her skiva, Visions. The album received the Canadian music industry Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year,[6] and yielded two singles: "Genesis" and "Oblivion". Following this, her fourth studio album, Art Angels, was released in , and several publications named it the best
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Janelle Monáe recently told Zane Lowe at Beats 1 that her forthcoming album, Dirty Computer, will be “extremely vulnerable.” So far, the route Monáe has chosen to take equates vulnerability with boldness. The artwork for her new single, “PYNK,” features Monáe in Bowie-style wide-brimmed trousers shaped like a vagina; its video is a multisensory, radical journey into a new dimension of queer sexuality. In these visions, the governing symbols aren’t phallic, as usual, but shaped like the female reproductive system, where life always begins. With that, “PYNK” heralds a new start for Monáe’s musical journey, using a color synonymous with girlishness to discuss the future of gender.
The song is a collaboration between two excellent women, reuniting Monáe with Grimes. The two previously met on Grimes' “Venus Fly,” and here Grimes’ head spinning, bubblegum pop aesthetic influences producer Wynne Bennett’s spacious R&B beat. There are still the Prince-ly guitar riffs and funky r
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Tracing the evolution of Janelle Monáe’s high-concept music videos
Long before Beyoncé, Tove Lo, and Lana del Rey started releasing concept-based, extended-length visuals to accompany their albums, Janelle Monáe was creating “emotion pictures”: what she describes as “a narrative film and accompanying musical album”.
Over the past decade, Monáe’s name has become synonymous with a certain dystopian funk aesthetic that she created throughout The Metropolis Saga, her first emotion picture, which was told over the course of an EP and two full-length albums. It’s not yet clear if Dirty Computer, Monáe’s forthcoming third studio album, will continue the same sci-fi narrative of The Metropolis Saga, but from what we’ve seen so far, it looks like she’s using a similar style of high-concept fantasy to explore issues of politics, race, and sexuality.
Ahead of the album’s release, we’ve taken a close look at how Monáe’s visuals have evolved from her very first EP to her latest sin