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Janelle Monáe - Electric Lady
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


    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
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    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 - Sally Ride
    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.

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