We should brace ourselves for complaints about Janelle Monáe's open embrace of sexuality and showing skin, freeblackgirl, writes, but Monáe doesn't care what people think.
. “You have to understand that experiences will be had and people will change and evolve, and not be the person you look up to. As much as you love and care about me, I’m on my own journey.” She said she has previously “put pressure on myself to live up to expectations of what I feel a majority of people would want me to do. But that time isn’t now.”
It’s a bold choice to forefront pleasure in a world that so often tells queer people that their sexual exploits are shameful and should never be spoken of. Although the visuals have gotten a lot of attention, it’s important to say that “The Age of Pleasure” finds Monáe at her sonic best. There are electronic piano sounds, bass that reverberates across multiple tracks, reggae- and Afrobeats-infused slivers that sound especially good in the summertime. And, throughout it all, she’s returning us time and time again to the idea that pleasure is our birthright, not something to be shunned or treated as shameful.
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