Hints and tips:
...Janelle Monáe is incapable of making a slight album. The Prince protégé announced herself in 2010 with The ArchAndroid, a concept record inspired by the classic sci-fi film Metropolis....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Obstacles to EU enlargement First, let’s look at some incidents this week that illustrate how difficult it will be to make progress on EU enlargement....
...“He was given his first institutional show, and he said, ‘I’m taking everyone out of the institution,’” says Sea View founder Sara Lee Hantman....
...As an agent, Avant was tenacious and ambitious, brokering the sale of Stax Records for $4.3mn and pulling off the coup of luring the producer Creed Taylor from his contract with Verve Records to A&M....
...A talented artist dressed fabulously or someone self-important who makes extravagant demands for things such as fig-scented candles or pink M&Ms backstage?...
...Emotionally, physically, I could not [and] there’s no way I’m going to work for someone else . . ....
...Ethan Hawke, Cate Blanchett, Janelle Monáe, Lorde. The thing I think he’s really good at is that moment with Ke Huy Quan. It’s getting people who’ve given a million interviews to say something new....
...“But I just don’t like — I’m just too introverted.”...
...Lurid horror thriller Antebellum has taken a lesson from director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Split)....
...The last music I downloaded was “Be Careful” by Cardi B, with great lines such as, “It’s not a threat, it’s a warning”, and Janelle Monáe’s “I Like That” – “I’m always left of centre and that’s right where...
...“We met some time before the events of this year, but now I desire these kinds of clothes even more so – I’m thinking about comfortable pieces that are effortless and easy to put on.”...
...“I’m not sure that we’re replacing that shared energy-loop that we get with a live audience. But in teaching, there is definitely a sharing of ideas which is exactly what you hope to have.”...
...He solved that by speaking through another artist’s song: Janelle Monáe’s “Hell You Talmbout”, which features in the finale of Utopia. It is a rousing protest song about police violence....
...“I was complicit in it, so I’m trying to live my values more clearly now.”...
...Monochrome patterns dominated (“I’m a minimalist by heart,” she has explained of her love of black and white). Her vocals were versatile....
...Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer (Bad Boy Entertainment) “Walking contradiction” is how Janelle Monáe describes herself on Dirty Computer....
...I’m not so sure....
...climate change Quote of the week “I’m not an economist, I already said that I did not understand economics . . ....
...Maybe I’m guilty of putting too much faith in a comic book. If that’s the case, I make no apology....
...I’m sure the Smithsonian and other grand museums have many such treasures under glass. But here I was, handling it. And here’s the even better thing, my best tech tourist tip; so can anyone....
...“I’m not choosing a preacher, I’m choosing a president,” she said....
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