#archandroid

[cloudystaar]

Janelle

[shalomrenewed]

as i finish the Archandroid album for what seems like the hundredth time, im reminded of the unique, diverse beauty that comes with such an inspirational, perfect album. not only is it the music itself that brings me to love this album more and more everyday, the message behind creating your own prisons that convince you that the visions you have of yourself and your future are just that, visions; the idea that your own cybernetic body overpowers your broken, heartless desire to live and exist freely, as something and someone you were never supposed to be; my urge to fulfill my deepest fantasies and dreams, to love, to learn, to leave, to live, and to die; to be.

i love this album

[jus-morbo]

[rosetintedlenses]

Blacktober Day 30 - Android/Vocaloid

Who better than Android 57821, Alpha Platinum 9000 Cindi Mayweather?

*goes to listen to ArchAndroid and Electric Lady on loop*

[whiteteethteens]

Janelle Monae by Andrew Zaeh for The Archandroid (Rare HQ Shots)

[computersciencegothic]

“I chose an android because the android to me represents ‘the other’ in our society,” she said in 2010. “I can connect to the other, because it has so many parallels to my own life – just by being a female, African-American artist in today’s music industry. … Whether you’re called weird or different, all those things we do to make people uncomfortable with themselves, I’ve always tried to break out of those boundaries.”

Dirty Computer opens with an ominous voiceover spoken by Monáe, who coldly informs us of the bleak reality we’re about to enter. “They started calling us Computers,” she intones. “People began vanishing – and the Cleaning began. You were dirty if you looked different. You were dirty if you refused to live the way they dictated. You were dirty if you showed any form of opposition at all.”

From Rolling Stone, Why Janelle Monae’s ‘Dirty Computer’ Film Is a Timely New Sci-Fi Masterpiece 

[niiadom]

JUSTICE FOR ARCHANDROID!

[appears]

10th Anniversary

Janelle Monae: The ArchAndroid (2010.05.18)