Albums Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure

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2/5.

Rushed, wack lyrics, sounds too au currant (afrobeats and such) and no real signing ability from her.

She's gotten worse and masked it in freedom.
Hard disagree on this, even if I wasn't as much of a fan of this album.

Album was sonically fantastic, production still carried a beautiful blend of soul/neo-soul, contemporary R&B, afrobeats/highlife, jazz, latin-trap-influenced hip-hop, and reggae.

Hearing the album live is a treat, it sounds even better with a live-band than it does on a good sound system.

She provided plenty of strong vocal passages, interesting concepts (though not as heavy as her early concept album days), and it was still head and shoulders above most peer projects.

4/5 as an album, obviously not as good as Metropolis, The Archandroid, or The Electric Lady, but better than Dirty Computer and The Audition.
 

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Hard disagree on this, even if I wasn't as much of a fan of this album.

Album was sonically fantastic, production still carried a beautiful blend of soul/neo-soul, contemporary R&B, afrobeats/highlife, jazz, latin-trap-influenced hip-hop, and reggae.

Hearing the album live is a treat, it sounds even better with a live-band than it does on a good sound system.

She provided plenty of strong vocal passages, interesting concepts (though not as heavy as her early concept album days), and it was still head and shoulders above most peer projects.

4/5 as an album, obviously not as good as Metropolis, The Archandroid, or The Electric Lady, but better than Dirty Computer and The Audition.
You literally said its not as good as half her discography :gucci:
 

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She got the gays and industry people backing her so she always gonna be at the awards show and in the conversation but this album is one I have no interest in playing based on the singles.

I love the Archandroid album by her and used to be a big fan but she watered his shyt down over time. Jidenna has more of a chance I'll play his shyt then hers at this point.
 
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