Janelle Monáe Reveals Release Date for New Album ‘The Age of Pleasure’ – Variety

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Janelle Monae’s new album, The Age of Pleasure, will be released on June 9th via Wonderland Arts Society/Atlantic Records.

Janelle Monáe announces new album The Age of Pleasure, her first full-length in five years and a sequel to 2018’s Dirty Computer, will be released by Wonderland Arts Society/Atlantic Records. It has been announced that it will be released on June 9th.

The news comes along with a new single, “Lipstick Lover,” and the accompanying music video, in which the singer-songwriter and entourage of women clarified the song’s title and the word “Pleasure.” Soaking poolside in printed bikinis and t-shirts. — Monae and co-director Alan Ferguson.

In the album’s press release, Monáe said, “As we enter the ‘Hedonistic Age’, ‘Lipstick Lover’ is our Fam for Fam-inspired Free Asmosafacca Anthem. ‘ writes. “This is our oasis made with love, rooted in self-acceptance, throbbing in self-discovery and signed with a cherry red kiss from me to you.”

“Lipstick Lover” follows the new LP’s first single, “Float,” which was released in February, a few months after the song originally appeared in promotion for ABC/ESPN’s NBA Saturday primetime campaign. Bolstered by anticipation, Monáe also narrated the ad. The song features Seun Kuti and Egypt80.

She also previewed “Lipstick Rubber” at the Met Gala afterparty, a practice Monáe liked to take when preparing “The Age of Pleasure” for its official release. . Monae sat down with Zane Lowe on her Apple Music 1 to talk about how she tested different songs on the album, observing how people at parties reacted to the music.

“If I knew there was a party on that Friday or Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, I would be like, ‘Okay.’ I’m going to write three songs.” It won’t be recorded,” she said on a radio show. “I was walking around. I was so scared. I almost went to the bathroom once. “Lipstick Lover”, we loved it. There’s a song there called ‘Champagne Machine’… basically all the songs you’ll hear in this project that’s how I made it. I want it to be specific to my pan-African friends. I want it to be a love letter to the diaspora. And if they fuck with it, that’s good. i’m great. ”

Besides releasing a few one-off singles, Monáe has shifted his focus to the big screen in recent years. She starred in ‘Glass Onion: Knives Out Mystery’, as well as ‘Harriet’, ‘Antebellum’ and more.