Beyonce wasn't the only American female on the Glastonbury stage, Janelle Monae rocked her set at the legendary music festival as well.
We're only 20 minutes into Janelle Monáe's Glastonbury debut and she's already morphed into a robot, karate-chopped a monk to the floor and painted a picture of a model hourglass woman with "LOVE" scrawled across her thighs in green paint. She hasn't spoken yet, and she won't (much) for the rest of the show. Instead she'll deliver track after track of immaculately choreographed fun. And it is a delivery: there's no way this degree of co-ordination – with her 14-strong backing band bouncing and weaving in perfect synchrony – is spontaneous. But then, it doesn't need to be. It just needs to be big and fearsome enough to leave an impression.
Her debut album, ArchAndroid (Suites II and III), was the Guardian's album of 2010. Live, the biggest songs on that set (Cold War, Dance or Die) could have been swamped by her ambition. Instead, they're performed with a conviction that lets them sit up alongside her festival-friendly cover of the Jackson Five's I Want You Back.
Monáe's mentor and labelmate Big Boi (of OutKast) is headlining the same stage immediately afterwards, but she doesn't invite him on to perform the rap he recorded on her biggest single, Tightrope. She doesn't need his star power. The girl that Hey Ya! built has come good. All on her own.
Jacked from The Guardian
9 comments:
WOW..what a performance.....I LOVED IT!! GREAT JOB to Janelle and her Band & Dancers..JUST FABULOUS !!
WTF? I didn't know she performed. Why make it seem like Beyonce was the only female there?
The album is tight so i know ther performances are just the same otherwise you woulda heard about it by now.
Dang she wasn't even mentioned. Go Girl!!!
damn. and she did all that with clothes on? that was awesome. you see that Beybleach?
@1:51 cause Bey and her dirty camp is all about smoke, hype and mirrors, that's why.
Why?does this "chick" always dress like a ugly man with a doo-doo turd on it's head? I am all for being different but I hate the "look" that "she" has as a black "woman", "she" can't get rupaul to glam her up and make her look like a woman.
i've had the pleasure of seeing her in concert twice and she's always AMAZING and takes no prisoners!!
Damn! This chick is the truth! AND she was fully clothed!! She killed it!
That's what I wanna know too. Why did everyone make it seem like Beyonce was the first female or the only female there to perform. Are you kidding me? WTF?!?!?! This is why I cannot stand this fucking bitch. A crazed obsessed fan took a beautiful, talented and amazing artist like Selena but this ugly skinny stank breath bitch beyonce is still here. Makes no sense. They always gotta leave back the dummies. Beyonce and her people need to be shot for making it seem like she was the only one there. This bitch just wanna be first in every fucking thing. That's why I know her ass is fucking fake man. Ugh, she makes me sick to my stomach!
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