Venus fly grimes ft janelle monae biography
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Grimes
Canadian musician (born )
For other uses, see Grimes (disambiguation).
Claire Elise Boucher (;[2] born March 17, ), known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.[3][4] Her lyrics often touch on science fiction and feminist themes. The visuals in her videos are elaborate and sometimes have fantasy themes. She has released five studio albums.
Born and raised in Vancouver, Grimes began releasing music independently after moving to Montreal in [5] She released two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa, in on Arbutus Records, before signing with 4AD and rising to prominence with the release of her album, Visions. The album received the Canadian music industry Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year,[6] and yielded two singles: "Genesis" and "Oblivion". Following this, her fourth studio album, Art Angels, was released in , and several publications named it the best
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Janelle Monáe
American singer and actress (born )
Musical artist
Janelle Monáe Robinson (jə-NEL moh-NAY;[11] born December 1, ) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress. She[a] has received ten Grammy Award nominations,[12] and is the recipient of a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Children's and Family Emmy Award. Monáe has also been honored with the ASCAP Vanguard Award; as well as the Rising Star Award () and the Trailblazer of the Year Award () from Billboard Women in Music.[13]
Monáe began her musical career in with the release of her demo skiva, The Audition. She signed with Bad Boy Records to release her debut extended play (EP), Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) ().[14] It received critical acclaim and narrowly entered the Billboard Her debut studio album, The ArchAndroid ()—a concept album—was released through Atlantic Records.[15][16] The following year, she guest performed
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Tracing the evolution of Janelle Monáe’s high-concept music videos
Long before Beyoncé, Tove Lo, and Lana sektion Rey started releasing concept-based, extended-length visuals to accompany their albums, Janelle Monáe was creating “emotion pictures”: what she describes as “a narrative film and accompanying musical album”.
Over the past decade, Monáe’s name has become synonymous with a certain dystopian funk aesthetic that she created throughout The Metropolis Saga, her first emotion picture, which was told over the course of an EP and two full-length albums. It’s not yet clear if Dirty Computer, Monáe’s forthcoming third studio album, will continue the same sci-fi narrative of The Metropolis Saga, but from what we’ve seen so far, it looks like she’s using a similar style of high-concept fantasy to explore issues of politics, race, and sexuality.
Ahead of the album’s release, we’ve taken a close look at how Monáe’s visuals have evolved from her very first EP to her latest sin