“On her fourth album, polymath Janelle Monáe is unapologetically “on her champagne shit”. The Age of Pleasure finds the singer and actor at her most celebratory, liberatory and self-loving, detailing fun of all kinds. Joyous trumpets accompany her rap on Float, where Monáe declares: “I’m not the same.” (“I’m young and I’m black and I’m wild,” Haute confirms.) The sapphic pool party in the video for”
“The genre-blurring R&B star is on her 'champagne shit,' and we're here for it”
““How are you preparing for the age of pleasure?” an off-camera interviewer asks a set of spring break revellers in a trailer for Janelle Monáe‘s fourth studio album. The answers range from “going to therapy” to “wearing whatever I want, whenever the fuck I want”. But the ultimate response to that question is listening to Monáe follow-up to 2018’s ‘Dirty Computer’. An Afrobeats and disco-laced 14-t”
“Janelle Monáe’s fourth album exchanges science fiction for lusty romance, creating a rapturous Afrofuturistic sound collage for sunny days and sticky nights.”
“Janelle's scantest project to date is still pretty decent.”
“The Age of Pleasure doesn't float up to Janelle Monáe’s previous masterpieces”
