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Janelle Monáe: ‘I have to feel a film role in my pubic hairs. They have to vibrate’
As she prepares for a UK tour – including Glastonbury – the singer and actor answers your questions on Prince, what makes her blush, and why we shouldn’t ostracise AI
But BabopbyeYa was on my first album; my music has always been cinematic, so I’ve always understood cinema and big band orchestration, string arrangements. I grew up writing for the Coterie theatre’s Young Playwrights Roundtable, in Kansas City; I wrote science-fiction short stories. You opened the 2020 Oscars with a show-stopping performance, where you declared yourself a proud Black queer artist and celebrated diversity in the film industry unrepresented by that year’s nominees.
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