Video: Janelle Monáe - Tightrope (Ft. Big Boi)

The Indiecision '10 is a recap of the year gone by in Indian indie and a recognition of the work of its artists and those involved with the creation and promotion of the music. The Best Song International is the best song released by an international artist from a debut album released in 2010. 'Barceloner' Dinosaur Pile-Up That Dinosaur’s Pile-Up’s Matt Bigland is obsessed with Dave Grohl should come as no surprise to anyone. ‘Barceloner’ is heavily reminiscent of early Foo Fighters, [...]

Filed under: The Hit List Some tracks on our list of the best songs of 2010 were so gorgeous they gave us goose bumps; others rocked our freaking faces off. Some left us blissed out or melancholy, while others propelled us onto the dance floor. The common thread? Each speaks to the kaleidoscopic nature of the musical landscape today, and we're embracing the beautiful chaos with [...]

The never less than amazing Jacky from Take It To The Chorus reviews a song called Tightrope by Janelle Monáe. Despite signing to Sean Puffy P Diddy Coombes Daddy’s Warner imprint, Bad Boy Records, Atlantan wunderkind Janelle Monae is yet to blow up. If 2010 isn’t the year of Ms Monae, everything I know about the world will have been a lie. Like Lady Gaga, Janelle doesn’t just do songs. She does concepts. Bold, Fritz Lang-influenced concepts. Her debut, Metropolis, narrated the travails of Cindi Mayweather, a 28 th Century pleasure-borg [...]

Sean “Diddy” Combs dice que ella es uno de los fichajes más importantes de su carrera como hombre dedicado al negocio musical; Big Boi, uno de sus máximos valedores, elogia su capacidad para unir a la gente en torno a su música; Prince alaba su elegancia; y mientras, el ínclito Andre 3000,...

If somehow you've never managed to come across the eccentric soul-funk-rock dynamo that is Janelle Monae , boy do we feel sorry for you that your life is so lacking. A super-heroine born out of the wedded universes of Stankonia, Broadway and whatever the hell alternate dimensions Grace Jones, Nona Hendryx and George Clinton and his P-Funk crew came from, Monae rocked music lovers in desperate need of something truly new to their core a few years back with her debut EP Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase [...]

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