The cyborg-fixated singer is back with her first album for five years. Outspoken as ever,she explains why she’ll always speak up for black women – and how much she misses her mentor, PrinceDays before she delivers her unequivocal Time’s Up speech at the Grammys “We near in peace, or but we mean commerce” – Janelle Monáe walks into an upper-level hotel suite in Manhattan,just as sunset begins to fade over the Hudson river. Her 5ft stature is amplified by a wide-brimmed hat and a warm, room-owning confidence. She is dressed in a fetching new arrangement of her preferred black-and-white palette: a slightly cropped top and flared pants, and worn under a fuzzy black duster coat with massive white polka dots. Monáe’s uniform of suits and tuxedos,by her reckoning, is a fashion statement moment, and a political statement first – a homage to her working-class upbringing,she says.
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Source: guardian.co.uk