I appreciate this long ass comment. So thank you.

Please note, I don’t mean this in any kind of negative way because I fucking ADORE Janelle Monae, but that image at the top is giving me serious Prince John vibes.

i was driving my daughter to school this morning, listening to “my” music in the car (you know how 13 y/o girls love that) and her ears perked right up when Many Moons came on.

This world needs so much more Janelle, and so much less Trump-humping, Kanye horseshit.

When I was in college, I did as stint at a grocery store in a part of London popular with superannuated European nobility. I’d regularly get customers with haughty attitudes, impenatrable accents, and checkbooks bearing names like “The Countess of Warsaw” and “The Prince of Carpathia.” They were usually buying…

Some believed us because they felt weird too, others thought we were being weird conspiracy theorists ourselves. This is what concerned us enough to look this guy up:

I was in an a cappella group in college that met these wackos. They staged an “a cappella festival” in order to recruit young impressionable college kids with means into this crazy cult. Our group was the only one who did our research and looked these people up while we were there. One of the nights of the “festival”,…

I was fourth and last in my family. Oldest did ROTC and joined the Army, so he got *all* the attention. I, on the other hand, started from scratch and ended up working with my idol in a major motion picture in which I also got screen credit. What did I hear from the parents? Almost nothing. BUT, I learned much later…

Yeah, I’m thinking that if all else fails, I’ll go with color in my accessories. I have also been thinking that my mom will likely get over my choices if I commit to them. I have a good relationship with her and she’s a great mom, it’s just wedding madness, I think.

Because they’re fantastic! Well, ok, this is the only I’ve read, but it’s great!

I am a super fan of her other vintage-rock-sounding albums, so when the first song came out I was a little sad about the change style, but I keep watching the videoS and I am loving it. It’s more pop, sure, but it feels fresh and new and not a copy of anyone else. I think another ArchAndroid or Electric Lady would…

Yes! That tampon illustration is so useful! The care and keeping books are so good.

It’s sort of her 3.5th album, if you count Metropolis: Suite I as half an album. Definitely not second.

7-10 year old me would be SUPER INTO THIS. I think my daughter is too young right now but I’ve kept all my AG dolls & accessories for the day she’s deemed old enough.

I’m not saying I wanted a musical about Kristen living on the frontier when I was a nine year old but that first act ending with the death of her friend would have killed me.

American Girl Doll had done musicals out of their Chicago store during the early 00s. They were actually quite well-done—one was of Addy’s escape from Slavery, another about Kit and her family during the great depression, etc. etc. As a young girl, I thought they ruled. Sign me the fuck up for more AGD musicals!

... AND who also briefly took corporeal (if somewhat ersatz) form in the early episode “If Wishes Were Horses”.

My take agrees with your take. And in interviews, Antoni has hinted as much about the editing.

You really could have put more than a poultry effort into these eggsasperating puns.

A brief list of counterpoints to the obvious complaints about this change:

Barcode on a tag for infant and mother. Helps prevent medication mix ups too.