You criminally underrate grammar.

💯❤️🦾 I can def relate lol

Massively agree. I get all animated and end up being like 'it's a fucking concept album based in a retro-futurist art deco city sung/produced by a fucking pixie/singularity figure who is literally channelling divinity.' Usually.

@@ferdinandm.6255 you criminally underrate sense since you mean spelling and not grammar. You also criminally underrate kindness.

@@butterflymoon6368 I'm a different person than I was 3 years ago

The backlash is because he chose to talk about social justice and black oppression as a legitimate topic and didn't just smugly dismiss it as something which only whining entitled libtards care about.

Not really. Most music in history was created for religious divination/reverence, communal rituals and romantic love.

Auto Didact I never said it was just for that nor that it was created because of it.

It's in the expression. When it is overt with little else to recommend it, it is rightly seen as poor propaganda or shite art. See: Simon Munnery venn diagram. And then you have someone like Monae, where all this time I thought I was listening to reimagined Motown with some sci-fi motifs, only to find it is much, much deeper than than that. That's subversive, and allows for multiple hues of appreciation (even if I disagree politically). Good show.

quintessenceSL Star Spangled Banner is only revered because it's propaganda, and people lose their minds if you simply don't like the song. So it really can't be _just_ that. People like propaganda most of the time.

TheJoker ™ your the joker Your the smoker Your the midnight talker

Dylan Neel Agreed, mate, agreed. "Queen" and the title track in particular are classics.

What We Dig Because it’s about a black woman.

you are wrong

What a compelling argument you've made to support your position.

After having watched most of this channel's videos, It's safe to say this is some pretentious shit. Empty calories is how I describe this channel. It's so shallow

After having reviewed your response, it's safe to say you can kick rocks

Apan Apandottír Apan Apandottír Yeah, unless monae is around 80 years of age or more, she also hasn’t had anything taken from her or been marginalized.

Of course, the world is just THAT simple.

Take a nap.

Fantastic rebuttal. Didn't expect anything else anyway :)

Ehm. I do value much of my culture and I think my country is great. I also like to watch it evolve and grow. I guess I just don't have the energy to worry about who my neighbour prays to or which holidays other people celebrate. I just can't be bothered to be threatened by other peoples culture. I'm also a proud race traitor.

This reminds me of how native Maori in New Zealand have a ceremonial war dance called the haka, which is now performed during sporting events

It's Brazilian Portuguese, and it's waiting approval.

Nem acreditei qnd vi q esse vídeo já tinha legendas :D

Gabriel Ferraz de nada :)

I saw her here on the Dirty Computer tour. It was truly a spiritual experience..

Now I, a liberal, am quite curious of your political leanings....because you seem cool as shit. Doesn't it suck that we all label everything so easily? Why not just be 100% aware of what is....and let go of ALL ideology? Anyway, more power to Monae indeed!

I'm a socialist/syndicalist. Wanna have a Kumbaya-thread and just agree that Monae seems to be a very interesting artist and ignore the "virtue-signaling, PC, blah blah"-comments? This is the first time I've heard of her and I'm definitely gonna look into more of her stuff. This video made me think about some stuff and that is always good IMHO.

Lord Fupa This probably sounds ignorant asf but omggg I didn’t know there were Irish black people.

Did you know Bill Murphy is voiced by a 27-yr-old female singer? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qahme7xp15-cY5c.html

Trust me, you're no' missing much mate.

trip2themoon and you’re totally incorrect. Her music is incredible.

Fuck that melon

The dirty computer emotion picture comes pretty close.

Kolot god damn right he does

Cuppa Tea I don't think you understand social justice... Social justice means righting the wrongs that society has/continues to commit to groups. Because of the broad range of topics that definition may cover, many unorganized and not-well-defined groups have fallen under it, and have then been vilified by the majority of people who don't make up those groups (ie, BLM and feminists). If you want a musical taste of more radical social justice, listen to midnight oil (it also gives you some cool Australia facts), or System of a Down, or rage against the machine (all of these are quite left leaning but admittedly I don't have much of a right leaning example of this stuff other than certain pro-trump and anti-tax stuff that I haven't gone that deep into). A note on social justice though: the particular wrongs that society needs to fix, according to social justice advocates and social justice warriors, varies greatly from person to person. Also, social justice is often attributed to the left, but it is also very prevalent on the right too (I think Alex Jones and his ilk count as pretty great examples). The thing is that the right believes that society is going to start slighting them (unless you're apart of mgtow or something) so they tend to be much more preemptive and reactionary than the left who believes that society has already slighted certain individuals. This is an extremely short overview of a complex and nuanced topic, but I just couldn't leave you with, "it's anti-white propaganda". After all, there are plenty of whites who make up groups that are considered to be marginalized (ie the realm of sexuality and gender identity and religious discriminating (and yes, there are many Christians who believe that society is slighting them, just look at the attacks on planned Parenthood and that judge who is still in office who believes that he's a martyr because he put up the 10 commandments in his court room or something)). I do agree that a good amount of people who are zealous about social justice (the stereotypical social justice warrior) do tend to vilify white people since, historically, they put many of the marginalized groups in the position that they're in. I don't condone this way off thinking though (neither do many others who believe that society should be, but isn't an equal playing field), because it leads to this hierarchy of injustices and this pride in being a part of some marginalized group (which might I add is just really sick) that is completely antithetical to what the purpose of social justice is. Too bad that those people tend to speak for the majority, but whatever. I hope that helped a little. Sorry for the length mate.

idk but he's hinted at this uber leftist political ideology in one of his other videos where he mentions "cultural appropriation" right at the beginning of the video.

CutThroatNin3 because he's talking about black people being oppressed in the past and present he's all of a sudden saying it as all being nothing but victims. This was such a great well made video yet you put it down to the negative of things.

Mike Craig English please, no spider talk.

what do you think Afrofuturism is talking about? i mean, with all the whole "blacks in space" deal Sun Ra and Death Grips pretty much exploit, you think it's just gonna be "blacks in space" or do you think - just think - that they're gonna use it to talk about social issues? because Sun Ra often got pretty political in a very abstract way. yeah, he didn't use the Arkestra as a pulpit, but he used it to talk about how often a majority culture tries to snuff out a minority culture - hence why he said "fuck it," changed his name to Sun Ra and came up with the Afrofuturist gimmick in the first place. also top kek at "uber leftist political ideology," cultural appropriation is considered an academic term and trust me, academic leftism is not uber-left. uber-left is something like authoritarian left, i.e. tankies who say that stalin did nothing wrong, or andrea dworkin and germaine greer basically being against both sex workers and trans women. people who are too radical even for the radicals. talking about how trades of culture can often be exploitative and benefit only one side of the equation (or, you know, stating that any form of trade to benefit a culture is effectively appropriation - either good, neutral or bad) or how people do those little things that get on your nerves despite being so little isn't radical in any sense. now being so far left you call leelah alcorn by her deadname and openly support her parents' decision to try to send her to a quack church-sponsored psychiatrist who tried to send her to gay conversion therapy - that's radical. ｓｐｉｃｙ　ｄｉｓｃｏｕｒｓｅ

TheMurrut Yeah, I gotta agree. I really liked and appreciated previous videos. I like that they don't contain any BS, focus on the music and artist and explain what made them special, what made their sound. But the Bruno Mars one (seriously, sub par pop artists making song that steals everything it can is supposed to be a classic?) and this are just.. ugh. Like I said, I didn't learn anything about the music. I actually did listen to some of the songs, they are very decent for what they are, but they are still overpolished pop trying to blend genres to be varied. Nothing I'd come back to. The political agenda is ok. However from what I got from this video, the entire discography of her is just about social justice of black people. If that is the case, really? Maybe try to talk about other subjects too? Also, the whole "robots are metaphor for black people" sounds like horrible soap opera plot to me, not a great lyrics. Last but not least, the visual presentation + dancing. I don't really care about visual presentation, I feel like in most cases it's crutch to attrack people visually since the music is not interesting enough. This is also focused solely on black people, and the black people surrounded by white color in one video. TL; DR please go back to music and leave visuals and social justice to others ;(

I guess art Can be propaganda and still be interesting, not my cop of tea I guess. it depends how brave and needed the political message is I guess, and "black people are oppressed" while it may or may not be so simple or true, .. Idk, just kind of boring and a cliché. again, she might have her own unique interesting version of this message, it just didn't come across that way in this video.

Helgi Hilmarsson please explain how you can express politics through art without having a political agenda..

POC = black person. When it comes to mass media, it's always been a white vs black game lol. Hispanics? Asians? Indians? Naw, slavery was bad!

except "people of color" doesn't mean black, dumbass.

except it does, you idiot

POC doesn't mean black, it means non-huwite. Progressives use this term to create a divide in people's minds between huwites and ethnic minorities in a similar way to how huwite nationalists use the term non-huwite. Arguably, POC is a more insidious term because race baiters who use it hide their tribalistic intentions in a politically correct euphemism, which is why the use of POC is increasing among the wider public.

True. Black people use POC to buddy up with other non white races and vilify white people. This is over analyzed, pedestrian garbage. Much better music out there.

a political opinion you don't agree with? well, that basically means he's actually trying to fuck Janelle Monae and/or some black activist or he wants to be cool now. you do realize Afrofuturism is by default absurdly political, right?

scotty686 how is it virtue signaling? He discussed a concept. He didn't put his personal opinion about the concept in it, much less call his viewers to action or try to change their views. It was an objective look into an artist's influences and sociological lineage. What about it made it virtue signaling, because all I'm getting is that you just don't want him to talk about anything that has to do with social influences?

how is he virtue signaling? he sounds pretty genuine about what he's talking about. and besides, a lot of Afrofuturism tends to comment on the black experience as it relates to sci-fi - like using the conventions to talk about the past and the present. also, as far as people saying "people of color," you really want to have an entire video clogged up for 15 seconds just so the guy can say "black people, hispanic people, middle eastern people, asian people, pacific islanders, and so on" or do you abide to "don't bore us, get to the chorus" and have him use a term that's used to refer to minorities without trying to say "minority" a hundred times. minority is a bit of an outdated term anyway and really only applies to white-dominant Western countries. or are you just really uncomfortable that Afrofuturism, by design, is meant to be this politicized art movement, so you're trying to figure out a way to call Polyphonic a pseudointellectual while using terminology that you've picked up on the Internet and used to fit into the ingroup, i.e. doing the exact same thing you're going against? because it sounds like that you're using virtue signalling as a buzzword, i.e. using it without understanding what it means or because you've seen other people use it. and if you're doing that, well... ...i dunno how to break the news, but it sounds like you're virtue signalling all the way to the moon. and of course you're gonna accuse me of virtue signalling. okay, i'll buy that. i don't want to be cool. i don't intend to be cool or to fit in or whatever. and besides, if being an individual means either not giving a fuck or wearing nazi armbands while singing skrewdriver songs from albums that aren't "all skrewed up," then i dunno, sounds like individuality might not actually be individuality in your eyes but just another hive mind.

Hal Emmerich I just don't want identity politics

So you accused him of being disingenuous to discourage him talking about a topic you don't like? Sounds pretty dumb

Chad Dinglebutt I don't like race bating, all it does is make both races hate eachother

@@auggiecunningham People choose whether to hate or not. Even if you sweep Identity Politics under the carpet, the injustice still exists. So, the Caged Birds will not fall silent.

music should never be relegated to a specific race or color, we all like what we like regardless of who makes it

I mean it's an album that is trying to talk about the black experience as well as providing hope

What is a "black experience"? Do I have a "hispanic experience"? What's the difference if we both live in modern America? Does it matter? Why does one have to have a "racial experience"? Why do we have to try to make music racial?

Yeah, I never watched a movie or listened to music and thought "boy, do I hope enough white people are part of this". I just don't give shit about who made it. If the end product is good, it's irrelevant. But hey, I'm not american, so I'm probably not the target audience for this anyway

Precisely! I've never watched or listened to something just because the performer was Mexican/Hispanic, all that matters is that I like it and that it's good. In fact now n days i'm very wary of it because more often than not it's an attempt to racially manipulate me or fill an arbitrary racial quota.

any*

Uncomfortable, boy?

Maxime Bourgoin he captions each song... you can find her videos very simply on KZfaq.

I guess you didn't watch his channel intro video.

JD: "current political BS" Video: "Cultural movement that has been around for sixty years"

someone made a post after 20 seconds of intro. Look at the title again.

JD this channel is about art, art is about life You wouldn't complain if they talked about how traveling or growing up affected someone's music or how someone's love of chocolate influenced their lyrics or whatever the fuck else. You're only complaining now cause you don't want people to discuss relevant issues. You don't feel comfortable in that these things are important or that they're a part of life and thus can't be avoided forever. If you believe in free speech, how about you DON'T try to shut down or police discussions that aren't harmful?

And it recently became BS...

BariumCobaltNitrog3n > Tries to lead with science, as if trying to be objective > Ends with nothing but anecdotes, faulty opinions, and generalizations With all the words in your wall of text, it's amazing that you haven't stated anything meaningful. Seriously, pretty much all the stuff you just said means nothing in the context of this video. It just seems like a knee-jerk reaction to a word.

@@muntu1221 We know what denial is, and it isn't a river in Egypt.

BigHenFor and it’s not here, either.

Angry snowflake