{"id":764,"date":"2014-07-30T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=764"},"modified":"2014-08-10T23:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T03:46:19","slug":"janelle-monae-gets-way-new-video-electric-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/07\/30\/janelle-monae-gets-way-new-video-electric-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Janelle Mon\u00e1e Gets Way Down in New &#8216;Electric Lady&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an album (and song) that have been around for a minute, it&#8217;s pretty interesting that there&#8217;s only now a video for <strong>Janelle Mon\u00e1e<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Electric Lady.&#8221; But if you check out all of the digital product placement in the first 30 seconds of the video, it wouldn&#8217;t be outlandish to assume the dual-purpose of using the term &#8220;Electric&#8221; here (what&#8217;s up, Samsung).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LPFgBCUBMYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mon\u00e1e recently performed the song on NBC&#8217;s <em>Maya Rudolph Show<\/em> back in May, which you can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.musicplayon.com\/play?v=293609\">here<\/a>. She also did an *electric* performance on the <em>Arsenio Hall<\/em> show a few months back, which you watch below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHya1GZya0Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love Janelle. I love her voice and I&#8217;ve always loved her sharp, retro style, with the perfectly coiffed &#8216;do and tailored suits, but a strong case can be made for how <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.madamenoire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Janelle-Monae-CoverGirl3.jpg\">Easy, Breezy, Beautiful<\/a> she looks in this video with her hair kept natural while rocking a half shirt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/emeritus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/emeritus.jpg\" alt=\"emeritus\" width=\"648\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/emeritus.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/emeritus-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And do I spy Esperanza Spalding, T-Boz, AND Estelle as members of the Electro Phi Betas Emeritus? Hell yes.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, and are wondering what Janelle&#8217;s listening to right now, head on over to Spotify and check out her <a href=\"https:\/\/play.spotify.com\/user\/janellemonae\/playlist\/5yEkeuBVoXWuGuzpcmzUZ5?play=true&amp;utm_source=open.spotify.com&amp;utm_medium=open\">&#8220;WondaMix&#8221; playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Header image via Mon\u00e1e&#8217;s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmonae.com\/\">jmonae.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an album (and song) that have been around for a minute, it&#8217;s pretty interesting that there&#8217;s only now a video for Janelle Mon\u00e1e&#8216;s &#8220;Electric Lady.&#8221; But if you check out all of the digital product placement in the first 30 seconds of the video, it wouldn&#8217;t be outlandish to assume the dual-purpose of using<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/07\/30\/janelle-monae-gets-way-new-video-electric-lady\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,168,1],"tags":[401,399,402,403,398,400,404],"class_list":{"0":"post-764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"category-music-videos","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"tag-arsenio-hall","11":"tag-electric-lady","12":"tag-esperanza-spalding","13":"tag-estelle","14":"tag-janelle-monae","15":"tag-maya-rudolph-show","16":"tag-samsung"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}