{"id":16488,"date":"2013-05-02T08:04:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=16488"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:07:08","slug":"watch-janelle-monaes-new-q-u-e-e-n-video-with-erykah-badu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-05\/watch-janelle-monaes-new-q-u-e-e-n-video-with-erykah-badu\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Janelle Monae&#8217;s New &#8220;Q.U.E.E.N.&#8221; Video with Erykah Badu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The multitalented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmonae.com\/\"><strong>Janelle Monae<\/strong><\/a> is back with the fantastic official video for her first single, <em><strong>Q.U.E.E.N.<\/strong><\/em>, from her impending new album <strong>The Electric Lady.<\/strong>\u00a0 Check out <strong>Monae<\/strong> and <strong>Badu<\/strong> (and her alter ego <strong>Badoula Oblongata<\/strong>) vamping below, with Monae givin&#8217; the earned what-for in the last minute of the video.\u00a0The jazz interlude is a touch of sophistication that we&#8217;ve come to expect from the ever-intelligent <strong>Monae<\/strong>. The worthy lyrics (in particular the valiantly venomous last stanza) follow the video. The poet (and the booty) don&#8217;t lie.\u00a0 She&#8217;s one of the greats people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-12\/janelle-monae-and-wondaland\/\"><strong>as we&#8217;ve said before<\/strong><\/a>. Get ready for<strong> The Electric Lady<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tEddixS-UoU\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I love the things they say about me<br \/>\nWalk in the room they throwing shade left to right<br \/>\nThey be like ooh, she&#8217;s serving face<br \/>\nAnd I just tell em, cut me up, and get down<br \/>\nThey call us dirty &#8216;cuz we break all your rules down<br \/>\nAnd we just came to act a fool, is that all right (Girl, that&#8217;s alright)<br \/>\nThey be like Ooh, let them eat cake<br \/>\nBut we eat wings and throw them bones on the ground<br \/>\nAm I a freak for dancing around? (queen)<br \/>\nAm I a freak for getting down? (queen)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m cutting up, don&#8217;t cut me down<br \/>\nYeah I wanna be, wanna be<br \/>\nIs it peculiar that she twerk in the mirror?<br \/>\nAnd am I weird to dance alone late at night?<br \/>\nAnd is it true we&#8217;re all insane?<br \/>\nAnd I just tell &#8217;em &#8216;No we ain&#8217;t&#8217; and get down<br \/>\nI heard this life is just a play with no rehearsal<br \/>\nI wonder will this be my final act tonight<br \/>\nAnd tell me what&#8217;s the price of fame?<br \/>\nAm I a sinner with my skirt on the ground?<br \/>\nAm I a freak for dancing around?<br \/>\nAm I a freak for getting down?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m coming up, don&#8217;t cut me down<br \/>\nYeah I wanna be<br \/>\nHey brother can you save my soul from the devil?<br \/>\nSay is it weird to like the way she wear her tights?<br \/>\nAnd is it rude to wear my shades?<br \/>\nAm I a freak because I love watching Mary? (Maybe)<br \/>\nHey sister am I good enough for your heaven?<br \/>\nSay will your God accept me in my black and white?<br \/>\nWill he approve the way I&#8217;m made?<br \/>\nOr should I reprogram the programming and get down?<br \/>\nEven if it makes others uncomfortable<br \/>\nI wanna love who I am<br \/>\nEven if it makes others uncomfortable<br \/>\nI will love who I am<br \/>\nDance &#8217;til the break of dawn<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t mean a thing, so duh<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t take it no more<br \/>\nBaby, we in tuxedo groove<br \/>\nMonae and E. Badu<br \/>\nCrazy in the black and white<br \/>\nWe got the drums so tight<br \/>\nBaby, here comes the freedom song<br \/>\nToo strong we moving on<br \/>\nBaby there&#8217;s melody<br \/>\nShow you another way<br \/>\nThis joints for fight unknown<br \/>\nCome home and sing your song<br \/>\nBut you gotta testify<br \/>\nBecause the booty don&#8217;t lie<br \/>\nNo, no, the booty don&#8217;t lie<br \/>\nOh no, the booty don&#8217;t lie<br \/>\nYeah<br \/>\nYeah, let&#8217;s flip it<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think they understand what I&#8217;m trying to say<\/p>\n<p>I asked a question like this<br \/>\n&#8220;Are we a lost generation of our people?<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Add us to equations but they&#8217;ll never make us equal.<\/span><br \/>\nShe who writes the movie owns the script and the sequel.<br \/>\nSo why ain&#8217;t the stealing of my rights made illegal?<br \/>\nThey keep us underground working hard for the greedy,<br \/>\nBut when it&#8217;s time pay they turn around and call us needy.<br \/>\nMy crown too heavy like the Queen Nefertiti<br \/>\nGimme back my pyramid, I&#8217;m trying to free Kansas City.<br \/>\nMixing masterminds like your name Bernie Grundman.<br \/>\nWell I&#8217;m gonna keep leading like a young Harriet Tubman<br \/>\nYou can take my wings but I&#8217;m still goin&#8217; fly<br \/>\nAnd even when you edit me the booty don&#8217;t lie<br \/>\nYeah, keep singing and I&#8217;mma keep writing songs<br \/>\nI&#8217;m tired of Marvin asking me, &#8220;What&#8217;s Going On?<br \/>\nMarch to the streets &#8216;cuz I&#8217;m willing and I&#8217;m able<br \/>\nCategorize me, I defy every label<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And while you&#8217;re selling dope, we&#8217;re gonna keep selling hope<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> We rising up now, you gotta deal you gotta cope<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Will you be electric sheep?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Electric ladies, will you sleep?<\/span><br \/>\nOr will you preach?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multitalented Janelle Monae is back with the fantastic official video for her first single, Q.U.E.E.N., from her impending new album The Electric Lady.\u00a0 Check out Monae and Badu (and her alter ego Badoula Oblongata) vamping below, with Monae givin&#8217; the earned what-for in the last minute of the video.\u00a0The jazz interlude is a touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}