Janelle Monáe: "Cold War"

Futuristic genre-hopping R&B singer Janelle Monáe's videos are usually filled with over-the-top concepts and lots of dancing-- check the clip for the Playlisted "Tightrope", for example. The video for "Cold War", one of many highlights from Monáe's ambitious, BNM'd The Archandroid, takes the opposite tack. The clip features just Janelle's face as she lip-syncs the song in one take. Director Wendy Morgan said of the concept behind the video, "The 'Cold War' music video was filmed in the black b...

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