Janelle Monae covers the Summer 09 issue of Paper Mag. I must have been in my own world to have missed this! She's so talented and gorgeous.
"I have always taken to uniforms," she explains. "I loved watching the guys and the girls in their post office uniforms. And I was obsessed with Colonel Sanders."
"I had lots of cousins, even friends I'd gone to school with, who right now don't understand their purpose, they haven't figured it out," she says. "I make sure to call back to Kansas, just to stay connected. [But] I realize that if I'd stayed in Kansas and kept around those who are like the walking dead and didn't understand where they were going, I could have been that."
"[Yes], there are a lot of good singers out there. But [Monáe's] a rare breed of entertainer," says Paste magazine editor-in-chief Josh Jackson, an early Monáe supporter. "Her image is a part of it, but that's only a part. When she gets up on stage, the way she dresses and dances and tugs that spectacular hair are mesmerizing. But it wouldn't mean much if she didn't then wow you with her voice and her songs."
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