She pauses, shaking her head. “And we are also gonna take a moment to celebrate – because that’s exactly what they don’t want. They don’t want us to have celebrations, they don’t want us to be experiencing joy. They don’t think we deserve that. But I do,” she adds with a steely nod. “We absolutely deserve it. And that’s why The Age of Pleasure is important.”
“My friends inspired me,” she says. “I wanted to make something that we could go out to, and have fun to and feel free listening to. I definitely collaborated with a lot of incredible people on this project. Having somebody like Grace Jones on this project means the world. That opened up a whole other level of freedom. And Kel-P Vibes does a lot of great production on the Afrobeat side ... I can go on and on and on.
It’s pertinent that Monáe should mention Grace Jones, considering the parallels between both artists. The visual aesthetic has played a huge part in both their careers; from Monáe’s former habit of wearing her trademark tuxedo on red carpets , to her Afrofuturist-themed visuals, the 44-minute “emotion picture” that accompanied the release of Dirty Computer and her very particular concepts over the years.
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