Janelle Monae - Cold War Video

Has anybody made the crying Indian commercial joke yet?? Are you sure? Because all I was gonna say is...

You know what? Nevermind.

I love Janelle Monae, so no joke will be made...for now. Cue the dramatic music!

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Janelle Monáe - Tightrope (Wondamix) (feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco)

So B.o.B is really gonna do this whole sailor hat thing, huh? Oh well, if he keeps banging out verses like that, I'm down. Speaking of what's on top of people's heads, I've very interested to find out how Janelle has sex with her hair like that. Or is she so committed to the look that she doesn't have sex?? Either way, I'd like to know.

Anyway, why wasn't this a bonus track on The ArchAndroid?? I love the album regardless (especially Locked Inside and Neon Valley Street), so I don't feel too cheated. The people who should feel cheated are the female MC's who aren't capable of spitting a verse hotter than that 3rd verse Janelle lays down. They're so sick right now lol.

Here's the mp3 if you don't have it.

Janelle Monáe - Tightrope (Wondamix) (feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco)

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Thursday Billboard Update - 5/27/10

Nas & Damian Marley's incredible album Distant Relatives debuts at #5 with 57,000 album sold. I'm definitely gonna buy the album when I get a chance.

Usher's OMG hangs on at #1 and B.o.B's Airplanes notches one step closer to that spot and is now at #2. Miley Cyrus' Can't Be Tamed debuts at #8.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Glee Cast - The Music Volume 3: Showstoppers (1)
2. Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (2)
3. Black Keys - Brother (3)
4. Justin Bieber - My World 2.0 (1-4)
5. Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives (5)
6. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (2-6)
7. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms (7)
8. Usher - Raymond vs. Raymond (7-8)
9. AC/DC - Iron Man 2 sdtk (4-9)
10. LCD - This Is Happening (10)

• Janelle Monae's The Archandroid checks in at #17 with 21,100 sold. I guess its safe to say Diddy possibly changing the way promotion is done via retweets on Twitter won't be happening anytime soon.
• One spot below Monae are Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek's Revolutions Per Minute, which also boasts 21,100 first week.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold

1. Usher - OMG (1-1)
2. B.o.B - Airplanes (3-2)
3. Katy Perry - California Gurls (2-3)
4. Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart (5-4)
5. B.o.B - Nothin' On You (4-5)
6. Lady Gaga - Alejandro (8-6)
7. Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug (7-7)
8. Miley Cyrus - Can't Be Tamed (8)
9. Eminem - Not Afraid (6-9)
10. Rihanna - Rude Boy (9-10

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This Week In Flops 5/18/10

At one point, I thought this day would never come, but finally it has. The promotion strategy was a little bit curious to me because I was seeing commercials for the album on ESPN2 at 11am. That's basically a waste of ad time. Well, I still think Nas' name can help carry it a little bit (I know that's a major factor in my eventual purchase), so I'm gonna guess it lands in the 50-80k range.

I like a lot of singers, but I don't think I love any of their voices as much as I do Janelle Monae's. There's just something about the sound of it that just strikes a nerve in me.

Unfortunately I'm one of the few people who feels that way, as this album has received little, to no promo from Bad Boy outside of retweets from Diddy on Twitter. Granted, Diddy does have over 2.5 million followers, but you'd just like to see more for such a talent. This could work though, because if just a few thousand of that 2.5 million listen to Diddy and go buy the album, this could change the game.

Seriously, if Janelle moves 300,000 first week almost solely off of retweets by Diddy, you don't think people would start paying Diddy to retweet their stuff?? Well I do.

Fingers crossed that that does happen, but just in case, I'm gonna guess somewhere in between 30-60k.

I didn't even know this was an album, I thought it was just going to be a mixtape. Forgive me Hip-Hop purest, I have been a bit out of the loop with my music lately.

Anyway, I have the newest Kweli and Hi-Tek collabo album doing 15-30k.

I didn't even know this was on the horizon, and I'm sure you didn't either. One of the underrated "Worst Rapper Alive" candidates, I'm sure this album is awful. I'm guessing 3-15k unless Eminem pulls a Diddy and tweets about it non-stop for the next week.

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The Winners & Losers Of Rip The Runway

This just in, Nicki Minaj has just been banned from the UK for life for her failed attempt at a British accent. More on this story as it develops.

Winners: Nicki Minaj's plastic surgeon (he actually got paid to do that to her nose); Nicki Minaj's butt pads; Trina's REAL ass...damn!; B.o.B; fat girls; Bruno Mars' likeness to Tay Zonday; rubber basketballs; Dwight Eubanks (his flamboyant gayness will get him his own show somewhere...or at the least a few more spots on BET over the next few years); malnourishment (I pray Luda didn't request these sickly looking models walk during his set); Shaqnosis sneakers (it must've taken at least 50 pairs to make Nicki's My Chick Bad performance outfit); Janelle Monae's performance and ass (surprisingly nicely shaped...or were those them butt pads at work again??); Vanessa aka "Subway to Runway" girl; Dwight's decision to make Vanessa wear those booty shorts!

Losers: Whoever dressed Estelle in that bullshit; ponytails; horses and now bald-headed girls in India who made it possible for all these wack ass Rapunzel-length ponytails to exist; whoever dressed Estelle again because somebody else came out in that same ugly ass dress; Nicki Minaj's nose; fake British accents; shoulder pads; masculinity; black people (Tiny & Toya coming back for a 2nd season); pink wigs; mohawks (black people, let it go, its over); And1; pink wigs again; Nicki Minaj's stylist or lack there of; dudes who think that's really Nicki Minaj's ass and hips; girls who think Nicki Minaj's outfits look good; basicness; stamina and going low (Luda's dancer got a little winded there at the end); women's shoes (I'd hate to see my girl wearing 80% of those ugly ass shoes).

Like before, if you have any to add, leave them in the comments.

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Cee-Lo - Open Happiness (feat. Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump, Travis McCoy & Janelle Monae)

I'm not gonna lie, I love Cee-Lo, but I hate this types of songs. They're just really annoying at the end of the day. Hell, where did this even come from?? Cee-Lo just woke up and said he was gonna make a Nick Jr.-esque song and call a few friends to join him?? I don't get it.

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