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Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady

Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Electric Lady
Released: 2013

Electric Lady Lyrics

Electric Lady

This is the title track of the second studio album by the American recording artist Janelle Monáe. The record continues the utopian cyborg concepts of its predecessors and serves as the fourth and fifth installment of her seven-part Metropolis concept series.

The song (and album title) is a reference to an imaginary woman Monáe started painting when listening to her track "Mushrooms and Roses" whilst on tour. Each night she'd paint the same female silhouette until she'd produced over 100. Monáe brought up was the woman, during a visit to a shrink and the professional advised her to name her, and the Electric Lady was born.

Asked who the Electric Lady is, Monáe replied: "Someone who cares for the community, who has her own perspective on making love and what love is."

This song features Solange Knowles, who is the sister of Beyoncé. She is best known for her 2008 single, "I Decided," which was a Top 40 hit in several European countries.

The Electric Lady album cover is a drawing by New York artist Sam Spratt of Monáe plus her alter ego Cindi Merriweather alongside her four sisters. Spratt said in NME: "I took her and my own influences and made these disparate elements cohesive without being some sort of Frankenstein's monster."

The song's music video pays tribute to some of the Electric Ladies that came before. The clip starts off at at Monáe's home, where she says goodbye to her mom (yep, that's Janelle's real mother saying the opening monologue). She then heads off to a house party for the Electro Phi Betas alumnae, where we see TLC's T-Boz, Monica, Estelle, Esperanza Spalding and Kimbra singing along as framed photos on a wall of the college honorees.

Janelle's dance partner is rapper T.I. They supply some impressive moves choreographed by Fatima Robinson.

Janelle Monáe -PrimeTime

Janelle Monáe - PrimeTime Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Electric Lady
Released: 2013

PrimeTime Lyrics

Tick-tock, I'm watching the clock
I can't wait til we get to rock
I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade
Is that okay?
Tonight is me and you alone
Won't make a call, won't even write a song
See I've been waiting and waiting for the time to say
Now listen babe

When you're down, and it's hard
And you feel like you've given your all
Baby our love will always keep it real and true

'Cause baby it's a prime time for our love
Ain't nobody peekin' but the stars above
It's a prime time for our love
And heaven is betting on us

Bang bang, I'm calling your name
You're like a fire the world can't tame
I wanna riot til the stars come out and play
Is that okay? Okay
Tonight is me and you alone
Won't take a call, won't even write a song
This'll be a personal private dance
Listen baby

When you're down, and it's hard
And you feel like you've given your all
Baby my love is always right here for you
Yeah

'Cause baby it's a prime time for our love
Ain't nobody peekin' but the stars above
It's a prime time for our love
And heaven is betting on us

It's a prime time for our love
Ain't nobody peekin' but the stars above
It's a prime time for our love
And heaven is betting on us

'Cause baby it's a prime time for our love
Ain't nobody peekin' but the stars above
It's a prime time for our love
And heaven is betting on us

Writer/s: PIMENTEL, MIGUEL JONTEL / IRVIN, NATHANIEL III / IRVIN, ROMAN / JOSEPH II, CHARLES DELBERT / ROBINSON, JANELLE MONAE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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PrimeTime

This sensual R&B ballad about two people finding themselves in the right place at the right time finds Monáe duetting with Miguel. The sci-fi Soul songstress told A.V.Club how she hooked up with the Adorn singer: "The collaboration happened through our music and energy, being out there, and both of us were fans of one another," she said. "I read in interviews that he wanted to work with me, and I loved 'Adorn' and loved what he was doing. I loved that he was writing and producing his own music, and I thought that was really cool. So when I was ready to write the love song, I thought he was a great communicator to women and to people in general, and I wanted him to be a part of my vision for 'Primetime.' I was just honored to have the opportunity to produce him and work with him and honored that he trusted my guidance throughout the song."

The song's music video was directed by Alan Ferguson, who previously worked with Monáe on her "Many Moons" clip. The singer plays a bar waitress called Cindi Mayweather, thereby working in the 'Electric Lady' plotline from her album. Miguel plays first love Joey Vic. Monáe explained: "The Emotion Picture gives a glimpse at Cindi's humble beginnings as a 'cyber-server' at the Electric Sheep nightclub, a syn bar serving high-class 'show droids' to the rich and lonely in a dangerous section of Metropolis known as Slop City."

She added: "Incidentally, the innovative cybersoul music played at the club directly impacted Cindi, and she began singing and performing her own innovative compositions a short time after quitting this assignment. In addition, Cindi became determined to change the public perception of what an electric lady could be, dream and aspire to after working in the dismal conditions at the club."

Janelle Monáe - Lettin' Go

Janelle Monáe - Lettin' Go Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Audition
Released: 2003

Lettin' Go Lyrics

Oooh! I got a call today, from my job up the block
It was my boss to say, you know we like you a lot
But we don't need you J, you daydream too much,
Well man I'm glad ya'll let me go!

'Cause with no 9 to 5, it's a brand new day!
My rents due but I'm a party any way!
I feel so alive, stress just faded away!
It's time to live my own life!

So, I'm a let it go!
Gonna leave my worries behind!
Gotta take control!
I just came to have a good time!
I'm a let it go, no time for stress on my mind!
I'm a lettin go! Oooh I'm lettin go!

That's right, left right
I'm losing it to music, cameras, bright lights!
I'm staying out all night
Don't shove don't fight!
Well make a million memories - all incredible!
Cause with no 9 to 5 it's a brand new day!
Got bills due, but I'm a party anyway
I feel so alive! Stress just faded away
It's time I live my own life!

So, I'm a let it go!
Gonna leave my worries behind!
Gotta take control!
I just came to have a good time!
I'm a let it go, no time for stress on my mind!
I'm a lettin go! Oooh I'm lettin go!

(Dance away your rainy days)
Oh! Come on and dance with me right now!
(Just for a little while!)
Hey! Just, for a, just for a little while!
(I know it's hot but we gon keep it cool!)
I know it's hot ya'll, aye, but wait a minute, we gon keep it cool!
(One last chance, come on and dance!)
Come on and dance with me!
I'm a let it go!

I'm a let it go!
Gonna leave my worries behind!
Gotta take control!
I just came to have a good time!
I'm a let it go, no time for stress on my mind!
I'm a lettin go!

Oh, yeah, alright everybody!
Now, I see ya'll jammin out there!
But I want ya'll to do one more thing for me, one more thing!
Now, when I say L-E-T-T-I-N G-O!
I want everybody to repeat after me
On the count of 1-2-3! Unh!
(L-E-T-T-I-N G-O!)

Yeah! Come on we gotta let go!
Awww I see ya!
Now we gon break this down
Like this!
(L-E-T-T-I-N G-O!)
Clap ya hands! Unh!
(L-E-T-T-I-N G-O!)
If you wanna dance, I'm a make you dance
If you wanna groove, I'm a make you move

Congratulations to you,
You had to let it go
You finally let it go
I'm glad you let it go
Do do do do doo
Dance

Congratulations to you
You had to let it go
I'm glad you let it go
You finally let it go
Glad you let it go.

You keep dreamin,
Don't let your dreams die,
You know?
Life is not a rehearsal
You gotta live it out
You gotta do it baby
You gotta do what you're gonna do
Come on, somebodys gotta hear me

Writer/s: JANELLE MONAE ROBINSON, CHARLES JOSEPH, NATHANIEL IRVIN, TERRENCE WILLIAM SMITH
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Lettin' Go

This track from Janelle Monae's debut EP The Audition finds her recalling getting sacked from her job selling ink and erasers at Office Depot. The young singer had been caught using a computer to update her MySpace page and communicate with fans on her website.

Big Boi got to hear the song, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to an artistic friendship, which helped inspire Monáe's move from New York to Atlanta. The OutKast star was the co-executive producer of Monáe's The ArchAndroid album and also featured on her single, "Tightrope."

Monáe re-recorded the song for southern Hip-Hop supergroup, Purple Ribbon All-Stars' 2005 album Got Purp? Vol. 2.

Janelle Monáe - Sally Ride

Janelle Monáe - Sally Ride Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Electric Lady
Released: 2013

Sally Ride Lyrics

Sally Ride

The Electric Lady found Monáe standing tall for her race and her sex and envisaging a society where one can exist without needing to stay within preset boundaries. She addresses the first female/LGBT astronaut Sally Ride on this song as well as the fight against oppression and prejudice.

Dr. Sally Kristen Ride (1951-2012) achieved national ranking as a tennis player, but chose not to follow this as a career. She was chosen as an astronaut candidate by NASA, and in 1983 she was selected to serve on a six-day flight of the orbiter Challenger, becoming the first American woman to reach outer space. The bisexual Ride engaged in a lesbian relationship with the writer Tam O'Shaughnessy from 1985 until her death on July 23, 2012 from pancreatic cancer.