Dirty Computer

Album Reviews

By: Youeal Abera and Natasha Tar Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer is Janelle Monáe’s third album, and with it, she reveals herself so vulnerably that she has manifested her most bold, beautiful work.      Songs such as “Take A Byte” and “Pynk” find Monáe freely celebrating her pansexuality, expressing love and liberation for all members of the LGBTQ+ community. On the tracks “Crazy, Classic, Life” and “Americans,” Monáe includes notions of Black empowerment. In “Django Jane,” Monáe proclaims the power that women, particularly women of colour, truly possess.      Monáe, with the manufacturing of such a…

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