Someone said Janelle Monae has stopped dressing like Lucky Luciano and has gone on a historic run with the thirst traps.
She looked beautiful in Knives Out, and now she has an album coming out. The videos and artwork from that album have the internet going nuts.
JANELLE MONÁE HAS announced her first album in five years, The Age of Pleasure, with a new single, “Lipstick Lover.” On Wednesday, she teased the single with a short clip of her emerging from a shallow pool as the track played in the background. The video — where she wore a soaked see-through T-shirt with the word Pleasure plastered across it — quickly gained traction online.
“As we enter into The Age Of Pleasure Lipstick Lover is our freeassmothafucka anthem inspired by f.a.m. for f.a.m,” Monáe wrote in a statement about the album, which is set for release on June 9. “This is our audio oasis made with love and signed with cherry red kisses from me to you.”
Monáe’s promo imagery winked at a popular 1972 poster for Jamaica tourism featuring Trinidadian model Sintra Bronte. Fittingly, “Lipstick Lover,” is her take on romantic reggae, an ode to a moment of queer intimacy dotted with sugary harmonies and an earworm hook. The visual for the song was directed by Monáe and Alan Ferguson.
“I seen it from the back and I’m excited, tell me whatchu do when we walk up in the room — I hope it’s something nasty, we can try it,” she sings before sliding into the songs’ doating chorus: “I really got a thing for my lipstick lover, lover, lover, lover.” She recently previewed the song, performing it atop the bar at her exclusive Met Gala after-party at the Boom Boom Room above the Standard Hotel in New York.
The photos and video is NEXT LEVEL.
Flip the pages to check it out. You will not be disappointed.