Janelle Monáe for Rolling Stone
As a musician, writer, and actor, @JanelleMonae has parlayed their triple-threat achievements into culture-shifting, Black feminist, pro-queer stances.
Ahead of their new album next month, they're also Rolling Stone's latest cover star.
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- Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 22, 2023
Janelle Monáe covers Rolling Stones
Some quotes from the interview:
- "I think being an artist gets lonely. Most people don’t understand what’s going on in my brain. Community has been so helpful to me; it’s beautiful that I have a title called The Age of Pleasure because it actually re-centers me. It’s not about an album anymore. I’ve changed my whole fucking lifestyle".
-She says that her pronouns are "she/her, they/them, and “free-ass motherfucker" and that “I’m much happier when my titties are out and I can run around free.”
- On new single “Lipstick Lover”, inspired by wild parties thrown at Wondaland West, her LA compound: “I have a whole spreadsheet with 50 to almost 100 experiences that I had at this party. I wear red lipsticks at the parties. I’ve had moments where if me and a girl or an energy… want to engage, you’re going to see lipstick.”
At 37, @JanelleMonae tells Rolling Stone that she's reoriented her world around pleasure, trying to consciously enjoy herself, to quiet her mind, to party but also be present.
"I’ve changed my whole fucking lifestyle."
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- Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 22, 2023
"I think that therapy, life coaching included, should be free for every American. There’s so many people walking around wounded emotionally. We would be better as a country, as a planet, if everybody had the access." - @JanelleMonae on therapyhttps://t.co/eUQEvOXFXP pic.twitter.com/CnGiUBnQmi
- Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 22, 2023
. @JanelleMonae for Rolling Stone's June 2023 issue, shot by Justin Frenchhttps://t.co/eUQEvOYdNn pic.twitter.com/fTWzuAKW0l
- Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 22, 2023
. @JanelleMonae, who came out as pansexual and nonbinary in recent years, says she's keeping up with the growing scroll of queerphobic legislation: "It’s infuriating, it’s cruel."
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- Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 22, 2023
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