It's been a while since Janelle Monáe’s last album -- 2013's The Electric Lady -- but in that time, Monáe has been coming into her own, an impressive accomplishment for someone who already came across ...

Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer landed at No. 2 on our 2018 critic poll’s best albums list. Check out the poll here, and our thoughts on the album’s impact below. Although Janelle Monae spent years at ...

Brevity and directness are not Janelle Monáe's things. Her albums, when they arrive, are vast and sprawling and messily ambitious. In the past, she's collided R&B with new wave and Broadway and ...

As the opener of Janelle Monae’s newest record bursts into its second track, the fluorescent pop-rap fusion of “Crazy Classic Life,” I can hear traces of the expansive synth-crazed ‘80s I was born ...

Janelle Monáe rarely goes more than a few minutes on her new album, “Dirty Computer,” without evoking the hardship and injustice that color the American experience for so many. Police violence, pay ...

Janelle Monáe fans can finally take a deep look into the R&B songstress’ clever mind in the form of a defiant and bugged computer. In Monáe’s first two studio albums she remained somewhat elusive, ...

Unpacking the meaning behind her new album and short film Adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Sonia Rao. Janelle Monáe came out as pansexual in a Rolling Stone interview published April 26, ...

vocalizing her support for women without vaginas.At the end of the day, Dirty Computer is a beautiful love story, in every sense of love. In “Screwed,” Monáe sings about sex and power, concluding that ...

Janelle Monáe's performance in the 2016 film "Hidden Figures" earned rave reviews. But it was her music that first put her on the path to stardom ... a path that started with family, as she explains ...

Singer and actress Janelle Monáe’s Afro-futuristic collection of short stories is about to hit the shelves. Titled, The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer, the book is an expansion ...

Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer is an ambitious, politically outspoken, all-encompassing pop-R&B statement album at a time when the existence of such a thing is not a given. Out since April, it’s her ...

It has been a very big year for Janelle Monáe. She was named trailblazer of the year at Billboard's Women in Music awards, woman of the year by Glamour. She came out as pansexual in a sprawling ...