Janelle Monáe has introduced her first album in 5 years.
The 37-year-old singer and actress’ ‘The Age of Pleasure’ file comes with a brand new single known as ‘Lipstick Lover’ – the discharge of which the Emmy-winner teased on Wednesday (10.05.23) with a brief clip of her rising from a shallow pool because the monitor performed within the background.
She stated in an announcement launched on Thursday in regards to the upcoming album, set for launch on 9 June: “As we enter into The Age Of Pleasure ‘Lipstick Lover’ is our freea**mothaf**** anthem impressed by f.a.m. for f.a.m.
“That is our audio oasis made with love and signed with cherry pink kisses from me to you.”
Her promo clip, during which she wore a soaked see-through t-shirt with the phrase ‘Pleasure’ emblazoned on it, quickly went viral.
The promotional imagery that was launched along with her assertion – exhibiting Janelle along with her naked chest coated by her palms holding two pink flowers – appears to be a nod to a preferred 1972 poster for Jamaica tourism that includes Trinidadian mannequin Sintra Bronte.
Janelle lately previewed ‘Lipstick Lover’ by performing it at her Met Gala after-party on the Growth Growth Room above the Customary Lodge in New York.
She hinted at its title by declaring on the bash: “Tonight, this 12 months, we’re within the age of motherf****** pleasure. We’re actively doing the issues that make us really feel good, unapologetically.”
Rolling Stone stated in regards to the single: “Fittingly, ‘Lipstick Lover’ is her tackle romantic reggae, an ode to a second of queer intimacy dotted with sugary harmonies and an earworm hook.”
The music consists of the raunchy strains: “I seen it from the again and I’m excited, inform me whatchu do once we stroll up within the room – I hope it’s one thing nasty, we are able to attempt it. I actually acquired a factor for my lipstick lover, lover, lover, lover.”
‘The Age of Pleasure’ additionally consists of the only ‘Float’ that includes ‘Seun Kuti and Egypt 80’.
Regardless that ‘The Age of Pleasure’ is Janelle’s first album since 2018’s ‘Soiled Laptop’ she has been busy with a starring function in final 12 months’s ‘Glass Onion: A Knives out Thriller’ movie alongside Daniel Craig, and roles within the films ‘Antebellum’, ‘Harriet’, and ‘The Glorias’.
