Janelle Monae Cracks A “Smile” For ‘Billboard’ Mashup Monday

The one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death is coming up this week (June 25), and so our favorite android Janelle Monae’s Billboard Mashup Monday cover of Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile”—a song Jermaine Jackson sang at his brother’s funeral last summer—seems all the more poignant. “Emotionally, I’ve been connected to this song for quite sometime,” says Monae ... More »

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