Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 24, 2019 Dear Gossips, I know it’s only July but with festival season approaching and the lineups at each of these festivals coming into focus, we’re getting a sense of which films will be contending during award season. We also have a new early frontrunner in the Best Actress race: By Lainey • Jul 24, 2019 09:15 am
Music Janelle & Lupita “got the juice” You're so damn electro-cute You know you got that juice You know you got that juice You know you got that juice Now, squeeze all that passionfruit Ain't no one fresher than you Those are the opening lyrics to Janelle Monae’s song “I Got the By Lainey • Jul 04, 2019 12:39 pm
Equality Issues Janelle Monáe: Pride in Paper Janelle Monáe just did an interview and gorgeous photo spread for Paper Magazine. Like everything she touches, it is amazing. The interview begins on a somber note, with Monáe talking about attending her first Pride celebration in New Orleans, falling on the same day 27-year-old trans woman Lavleen Polanco was By Melayna • Jun 26, 2019 01:08 pm
Hook Ups Lupita & Janelle?! Lupita Nyong'o and Janelle Monáe set Twitter ablaze following the Met Gala and it was for more than their fire outfits. People, and possibly me, are convinced there could be a romance brewing between them, especially since there are rumours that Janelle and her frequent professional and personal By Melayna • May 13, 2019 11:57 am
Met Gala 2019 Janelle Monae: Met Devotion This is true devotion to the theme. Janelle Monae has always honoured this carpet, in the most literal, personal ways. She is, more than almost anyone else, an artist whose clothing is an extension of her personality, and of the vibe she’s embodying. Right? Like it’s never a By Duana • May 07, 2019 11:04 am
Style Intro for March 6, 2019 Dear Gossips, Here’s what I forgot to mention when I posted about the Chanel presentation yesterday: Janelle Monae wearing Chanel as an homage to herself in Chanel, by Karl Lagerfeld of course. This is Janelle’s most recent Chanel outfit: And this is the Chanel she wore at the By Lainey • Mar 06, 2019 08:43 am
Style Chanel: Karl’s final apres-ski At Paris Fashion Week today: Chanel’s Fall 2019 presentation, presumably the last Karl Lagerfeld would have worked on extensively, so it was an emotional tribute featuring many of his muses, a moment of silence at the beginning, and then Karl’s voice echoing through the Grand Palais, talking about By Lainey • Mar 05, 2019 10:29 am
Music What Kacey and Janelle deserved Kacey Musgraves won Album of the Year. Lainey and I were gushing over Golden Hour all night. We both love the album. I was defending her performance of “Rainbow” to friends over text because while it did feel like it dragged during the broadcast, “Rainbow” is a gorgeous song with By Kathleen • Feb 11, 2019 11:41 am
Golden Globes 2019 Janelle Monae’s perfect headwear Janelle Monae wore Chanel’s 2019 pre-fall collection, including a leather gold couch crown I think may just be the greatest piece of headwear I have ever seen on a red carpet. I believe Vogue when they write that Karl Lagerfeld crafted this hat for his Egyptian-themed Metiers d’Art By Kathleen • Jan 07, 2019 07:20 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Janelle Monae's Outfit of the Week There’s been a shortage of really special outfits lately. I wonder if that’s because people are hoarding and banking - award season is coming up. This one I’ve been holding on to for a few days and I said to myself when I first saw these shots By Lainey • Nov 16, 2018 04:18 pm
Girlcrushes Janelle’s BET vagina monologue Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer is one of the best albums of 2018. Janelle Monae has become one of the most influential artists of the year not only because of the strength of her work but also because she came out as a queer woman in Rolling Stone in April. By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 09:44 am
Met Gala 2018 Janelle Monae: Best Met Synergy Here is gifted actress, musician, and fashion icon Janelle Monae at the Met Gala: Here is gifted actress, musician, and fashion icon Janelle Monae as pictured on her new album Dirty Computer: I believe this is what we call ‘synergy’. I guess it’s possible that it was unconscious that By Duana • May 08, 2018 06:56 am
Music Intro for April 11, 2018 Dear Gossips, Pink pants. Pink pussy. Pussy power. Pynk. Janelle Monae released the video for Pynk yesterday and there’s no mistaking the point: pinkness. Or, rather, PYNKness. Here’s how she described it: “Pynk is a brash celebration of creation. self love. sexuality. and pussy power! PYNK is the By Lainey • Apr 11, 2018 09:03 am
Girlcrushes Janelle Monae 2067 I’m convinced that Janelle Monae is a time-travelling superhuman from 2067. She is too damn cool for us mere mortals of 2018. She also loves telling futuristic fantasies and sci-fi fairy tales through her music, just like a future space traveler would. Look at this picture Janelle posted from By Kathleen • Mar 05, 2018 11:28 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Comeback actors, Olympics, and Janelle Monae We begin this week’s podcast with a discussion about what Duana and Megan Fox have in common. There’s a scientific name for it too – even though the name sounds ridiculously made up and not real at all: Brachydactyly Type D, pronounced “bracky-dact-ily”. Come ON! From there, we move By Lainey • Feb 26, 2018 04:45 pm
Hook Ups Tessa & Janelle? Janelle Monae joined Tessa Thompson at the Annihilation premiere last week. They also went to the Black Panther premiere together. For a while now there’s been speculation as to whether or not they’re dating. And a lot of people who really want them to be dating. This is By Lainey • Feb 20, 2018 12:07 pm
