Janelle Monáe, Dance Apocalyptic

Janelle Monáe is a 27-year-old American singer who's career pop-out after the hit collaboration We Are Young with fun.

Owner of a very powerful and soulful voice, Monáe is also a great songwriter, a huge performer and a unique talent.

Influenced by many great artists like James Brown or Gnarles Barkley, Janelle Monáe has a very personal groove who complements her iconic image and jazzy-upbeat-pop impressive songs.
She ain't afraid to take a risk and sometimes that creates this "hard to really embrace" her music moment but she is quite a key in this industry and her uniqueness and ability to innovate is surely bringing her up high right now.

After one successful album The ArchAndroid in 2010 and two EPs in 2003 and 2007, it's time for the really expected second album.

The Electric Lady is inspired by her mother and all the women in her life. About this new record, Monáe started to write and create the songs around rebel women who dared to live their life to the fullest and who didn't settled with was is done.
According to the artist, she created this persona who represents "the woman I wanted to see around me." When describing her, she also adds "I have hundreds of these paintings with the same feminine figure over and over... (...) My colleagues and friends told me to name this mysterious figure because she seemed to be a totem, a powerful symbol for me. So I named her The Electric Lady, and that's where the album's title came from."

Dance Apocalyptic is a very upbeat pop song, with a big reference to Mark Ronson music and following the footsteps of Prince's glam era, breathing a retro rockabilly guitar and 50's dance moves and inspiring to a huge rave, perfect to a "dance apocalyptic".

Dance Apocalyptic is the perfect zombie-end-of-the-world-incarnation personified by a powerful 60's energetic lady.

Fun. + Janelle Monáe, We Are Young

Fun. is an American indie pop band created in 2008 by Nate Ruess (after the break-up of The Format) inviting Andrew Dost from Anathalo and Jack Antonoff from Steel Train.

They've released an album Aim and Ignite in 2009 which was mostly well received by critics.
From that album we can recognize songs like Walking The Dog or All The Pretty Girls.

Their new album is going to be released tomorrow under the name Some Nights.
After signing with a new label - Fueled by Ramen - fun. began the work for Some Nights being really influenced by Kanye West and other hip-hop artists. With this album they created an interesting mix of indie pop, rock and hip-hop.
Some Nights was inspired by "how personalities can change on any given night".
Adam Knott from Sputnikmusic wrote about the album that "The energy and personality which flood out of every melody give this album its own stamp of authority".

The first single taken from Some Nights is We Are Young which features Janelle Monáe.
This song was covered by Glee on the episode Hold On to Sixteen.

"Now I know that I'm not all that you got

I guess that I I just thought maybe we could find a ways to fall apart

But are friends in back

So let's raise a cup

Cause I found someone to carry me home"