Dirty Computer
Jul. 31st, 2018 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwiceWe saw Janelle Monáe on her Dirty Computer tour when she played out at the Edgefield, and I don't think I ever wrote about it anywhere. Maybe I was just keeping it private for a while.
At any rate, it was amazing.
Uh, you've all been listening to the album, right? It's very much a record about being young and uncertain and vulnerable, and it's a heck of a thing to see that come after something as self-assured as Electric Lady. IDK, I feel like I've heard this expressed by other people who got famous relatively early in their lives, about how you miss (or deliberately avoid) your opportunities for certain components of the process of growing up, and... I guess if you're lucky it comes out later, and if you're unlucky you end up weirdly stunted.
And, I haven't experienced THAT, but, uh... I do have some small experience with being a late bloomer, let's say. So, it's kind of a special album to me in that way, and also I'm really rooting for her.
Here's something that was on my mind a few weeks after the concert: what if Monáe ends up having a, like, Bowie-length or Prince-length career, and we're all here for the start of it? I wonder what I'll be hearing from her, like, 40 years from now.
At any rate, it was amazing.
Uh, you've all been listening to the album, right? It's very much a record about being young and uncertain and vulnerable, and it's a heck of a thing to see that come after something as self-assured as Electric Lady. IDK, I feel like I've heard this expressed by other people who got famous relatively early in their lives, about how you miss (or deliberately avoid) your opportunities for certain components of the process of growing up, and... I guess if you're lucky it comes out later, and if you're unlucky you end up weirdly stunted.
And, I haven't experienced THAT, but, uh... I do have some small experience with being a late bloomer, let's say. So, it's kind of a special album to me in that way, and also I'm really rooting for her.
Here's something that was on my mind a few weeks after the concert: what if Monáe ends up having a, like, Bowie-length or Prince-length career, and we're all here for the start of it? I wonder what I'll be hearing from her, like, 40 years from now.
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Date: 2018-08-02 06:40 pm (UTC)