Janelle Monae is a god-damned superstar. Archandroid was an incredible and thoroughly realised concept album, with tons of inspiration drawn from Fritz Lang's work. Unfortunately, "intelligent soul/R&B" has no place in the mainstream - really hasn't since Outkast's "Speakerboxx/The Love Below". In 20 years someone…

Exactly. The short form of this conundrum is simple to outline. Radio sucks. Janelle Monae is awesome. So, no Janelle Monae on the radio.

Janelle Monae is one of the most uncompromising contemporary musical artists. Her stylistic exploration, lyrical invention, and large-scale operatic structures are some of the most fascinating new music I've come across in years.

Well, I'm pretty firmly on the feminist side of this issue so I'll sit this one out.

and i was all WHISKEY TEARS ARE THE PUREST OF TEARS

What. Just. No.

I guarantee there will be a lot of girl biting her lower lip and guy telling her to stop because it excites him too much.

so all DC heroes must be miserable at all times? Gah. I'll stick with Marvel, thanks.

I read that line about Showgirls and looked over my shoulder really fast like my mom might be standing there because wow, that was me! Between that and HBO's Real Sex (god bless) I was allll set.

There are only two words to describe Tom Hiddleston.

This makes me so angry that I want to cry. My favorite characters are at the mercy of this awful, awful company and I can't do a damn thing about it. Marvel's not perfect, but I at least have Captain Marvel to soothe my angry, feminist, nerdy soul.

Anna Torv has kind of a strange (but not by any means bad) look, but I can see her pulling off Captain Marvel. Yvonne could do it too, but I would really rather see her as Black Canary. But in either case, I kind of prefer Sakhoff for Carol Danvers, she just holds herself the right way, has the right delivery, etc. …

GET IT AWAY! GET IT AWAY!

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