Janelle Monae

She is gay. Welcome to 2014.

She is really beautiful! Period!

Beautiful, and I love her retro sense of style and humor.

She also was very good in both "Moonlight" and "Hidden Figures."

Shes so gorgeous and talented.

Is she out?

She's gorgeous, and yeah I remember on twitter she called herself a "Sapiosexual" once. Her album is full of sapphic lines.

She is gorgeous, and certainly knows how to get cast in high-profile pictures. How many people were in TWO Oscar-nominated pictures last year -- beside Mahershala Ali and Janell.

She gorgeous, and a great musician and dancer.

Anyone else? 90% of the LGBT community "thinks" she's a lesbian, and maybe 40% of people in general. The rumors have been around since her inception.

Is she dating Tessa Thompson?

Because they're pictured together? That's not enough for a viable rumor.

R5 No

Love her. Someone here posted her video of Tightrope when it first came out and I've been a fan ever since.

R11, that's quite an intimate look and pose in that pic. I mean, they are actors so could just be playing around but who knows. The rumors have been around forever.

well, they went on a Mexico vacation together last month. Maybe they're best buds, who knows.

Old news, OP.

Love her, and ArchAndroid is still my favorite album of all time.

i too think she's les or even bi, but Hollywood has changed her once androginous style to a femme one over the years.

I don't think she was ever that androgynous. She always looked very feminine (with makeup, jewelry, and heels) even when wearing suits, etc. Always seemed more fashion than identity.

Michael Stuhlbarg is this year's Janell Monae.

I don't know why I've never been able to get into her music. She's undoubtedly a very talented woman, but everything she does in music feels like... an affectation to me. Which I know you can say of other artists, but it always feels like play acting to me. But, anyway, I can get into this new one she released today even though it's basically a Prince song.

"Lesbian" was my first thought when I saw her in the fun. video.

Those actresses in Hidden Figures must be pint sized because Janelle looked like a normal human sized person in the movie.

Beautiful and talented. If I was straight, I'd so be lusting after her.

Vulture declared her new video.song a "bisexual anthem."

BTW, it's supposed to be an homage to Prince. The sound is vaguely Prince and there's several elements in the video that call back to Prince videos - though the one thing that stood out to me was the identically dressed dancing women, a la Robert Palmer.

That's Tessa Thompson in that vid. It's like a coming out vid for them.

They're both gorgeous.

I loved her on The West Wing!

Love this song and video. Great art direction

Yes, some pussy is definitely getting ate when Janelle is around.

I love the "Dance or Die/Faster/Locked Inside" suite from "Arch-Android." I haven't really been into anything since but I think she's talented and I'm open.

The two new songs have been out for weeks and no one cares. Maybe she should stick to acting.

Here's another great video - IMHO with the short 60's pixie/page boy wig Janelle is giving us some Peggy Moffitt realness (fashion designer Rudi Gernreich's muse)

Yes and yes. She is gorgeous and talented. And I appreciate that she’s not all tits and ass to sell albums.

I love her 2 new songs.

I can appreciate her artistry and there are a few good songs, but I generally can’t get into her new stuff.

Her Archandroid LP, Metropolis EP, and even the song “Metropolis” from her early unreleased LP The Audition...they were so cohesive ethereal and...just perfect. Now it’s all pop and funk on Electric Lady and these new songs.

I still like her, but I definitely miss her old work.

She's a glass-closet lesbian and I love her music.

I wasn’t really feeling her self-righteous lecture to America at the Grammys.

Love her. You have good taste, OP.

Janelle is gorgeous. She and Tessa look good together.

Janelle is amazing. .. She and Tessa are having fun and seem very close.

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Banging on the inside of that glass closet door.

Cmon girl, you can say it: “I! Am! Gay!”

R41 Love it! What is she waiting for???

Practically begging and pleading for publicity and attention.

Her new songs are flops. Will this spark sales?

What will she do next?

She's had so many failed starts in her recording career. Initially, her record label threw lots of cash toward her 'artistic development' and publicity. It didn't payoff. Then her label paired her up (artistically) with Australian pop sensation "Kimbra" (Grammy winner) for their 2014 "Golden Electric Tour"; that, too, didn't work out. Time's up.

I've loved her two full length albums.

I was a bit cool on the first single from this one but I'm loving Pynk. Looking forward to the new album.

She does seem to be channeling some influences - a little Prince, a little Beyonce, a little St Vincent.

R20, I agree. I like Janelle -- gorgeous, beautiful, very intelligent. But almost every song she does sounds like she's channelling someone else. A homage. She can sing anything, the problem she's so protean I don't know who the real Janelle is.

Compare this to Azealia Banks, who is crazy and a bitch, but wildly distinctive. You know what her influences are - 90s house and NY gay clubs and hiphop- but melds them together in a way that is authentically and uniquely her.

She was so coy for so long, and now she's all "Tessa Thompson is my clit." Probably her first love; plus she's sort of "set" in her lane - people like her, she's been very successful in music and acting; she's a commodity and she's been an "everyone knows" type for years, so her being more forceful about her sexuality isn't gonna result in loss of income.

She Came out as pansexual

Janelle Monáe appears on our cover. In the story, she opens up about her new album, sexuality, Prince and more

What does "pansexual" mean?

She’s gorgeous, but the eyebrows are unfortunate....

It means they will say they will have sex with anyone. Transies, otherkin, the Eiffel Tower....Pansexual usually means bisexual in theory, if not in practice.

r50 It means she's attracted to people, regardless of their sex and/or their gender identity. So she's open to transgendered people as well.

[quote]Transies, otherkin, the Eiffel Tower....

r52 No, that wold be omnisexual, which includes pansexuals and objectum-sexuals.

Here is an example of a performer I use when I am accused of not enjoying the current music because I am old. No, it's the music and the performers that are awful. She can sing, dance better than almost anyone I've seen in some time, and act. I bet she would have been a better choice if they were insisting on remaking A Star is Born.

Thanks, R54. I am not as up on my special sexuality QUILTBAG initials as I thought.

This is the type of sound I hope some of the other songs on her new album have, not really feeling the new singles so far but love the videos.

"What does "pansexual" mean?"

She's lesbian or bisexual but doesn't want to commit to a sexual identity because it's "too confining."

Cool

Love this one.

her song "Make Me Feel" is really good and original.

R61

She’s channeling Prince, but doing it properly.

Great funk. Love her.

Tried to watch her on Colbert or something she's duller than dishwater. Her eyebrows are overdrawn, and I don't see any beauty there.