cindymay said:

anyway this song is the weakest track on the record..don't know why atlantic chose it as a single..

Me either.

JoeBala said:

Graycap23 said:

cindymay said:

anyway this song is the weakest track on the record..don't know why atlantic chose it as a single..

Me either.

Because they thought the video concept sounded an awful lot like Hey Ya?

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dancerella said:

I know for most she's a breath of fresh air. She wears clothes and can actually sing, plus we know she has the purple stamp of approval but I feel her stage presence needs work. She needs to learn control before going out of control, if that makes any sense. She just looks unnatural and silly. It's funny how people slag off Ciara for copying Janet but when Janelle Monae blatantly steals from James Brown it's ok?

THIS.

dancerella said:

theAudience said:

You know Mick Jagger has made an extremely successful career out of free-form, arrhythmic, spasmodic "dancing".

Let the girl get up and do her thang...whassonever way she wanna do it.


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Yeah but at least Mick Jagger's moves are his own! Now he's definitely got his own style.

Mick says he stole from Tina Turner...

purplethunder3121 said:

dancerella said:

Yeah but at least Mick Jagger's moves are his own! Now he's definitely got his own style.

Mick says he stole from Tina Turner...

And JB after being schooled during the T.A.M.I. Show.
Well, at least he tried to steal from them.


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She's so annoying

I personally really dig Janelle's spastic dancing. It's just fun to watch, she always looks like he's having the best time ever.

That was amazing. refreshing.. breath of fresh air in music.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

mjscarousal said:

THIS.

That is the whole point of the song. The point is for people to dance uncontrollably and to be "spastic". Janelle is a good dancer (of course not no where in James Brown category but she is good at what SHE does) and I thought the dancing in this performance was good but the JB moves were a bit redundant here . Although she has good footwork, it can be a bit distracting since they are not her moves.I personally dont think comparisions like this are fair for an artist such as herself because it puts her in a box when she is too diverse/eclectic as an artist for that. I would love to see her do other types of dance moves or styles if dancing is something she seriously wants to do in all her performances. Like any other performer coming up, she will eventually grow out of this phase. I rather see her do some JB moves then be overlysexual on stage. At least she is attempting to actually dance. Overall, the performance was good. She is a baddd chick and I love her so much!!!

Come on now. If she was just being spastic on this one song, I'd totally get it what you're saying but that's usually how she's been in most of the performances of hers that I've tried to watch and for me anyway, it significantly takes away from what she can really do.

****

I almost want to think Erykah kept her dressing room door open so that cloud coming from it could slow Janelle's ass down some for the Q.U.E.E.N. video and it worked. I could FINALLY get through a whole performance and appreciate Janelle's talent. All that spastic stuff does is make me hit the stop button, quick, fast and in a hurry.

Being spastic is apart of her "Electric Lady" on stage persona.

nyse said:

That was amazing. refreshing.. breath of fresh air in music.

yep, Janelle Monae sports a very beautiful face,

a fantastic voice and most of all she stands up straight and moves to the music in a fresh way.

she performs with the focus on her vocal talents and not on bending and gyrating from the waist down. [imo, tired of the *ss dancing female performers]

the lady is definently "refreshing.. breath of fresh air in music."

mjscarousal said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Come on now. If she was just being spastic on this one song, I'd totally get it what you're saying but that's usually how she's been in most of the performances of hers that I've tried to watch and for me anyway, it significantly takes away from what she can really do.

****

I almost want to think Erykah kept her dressing room door open so that cloud coming from it could slow Janelle's ass down some for the Q.U.E.E.N. video and it worked. I could FINALLY get through a whole performance and appreciate Janelle's talent. All that spastic stuff does is make me hit the stop button, quick, fast and in a hurry.

Being spastic is apart of her "Electric Lady" on stage persona.

So what was the reason a few years ago, when I first started saying her spastic dancing makes me

free2bfreeda said:

nyse said:

That was amazing. refreshing.. breath of fresh air in music.

yep, Janelle Monae sports a very beautiful face,

a fantastic voice and most of all she stands up straight and moves to the music in a fresh way.

she performs with the focus on her vocal talents and not on bending and gyrating from the waist down. [imo, tired of the *ss dancing female performers]

the lady is definently "refreshing.. breath of fresh air in music."

exactly she is the best female artist in these years for me..she is the complete package