Janelle Monae's android power

Rising R&B star talks about her futuristic inspiration Janelle Monae's boundary-busting debut album, "The ArchAndroid" (Bad Boy), has ambition to burn. It's a self-empowerment manifesto couched inside a futuristic "emotion-picture" about an android's battle to overcome oppression. The notion of space travel and "new worlds" becomes a metaphor for breaking out of the oppression that enslaves minorities of a...

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