As a musician, writer, and actor, JanelleMonae has parlayed their triple-threat achievements into culture-shifting, Black feminist, pro-queer stances. Ahead of their new album next month, they're also Rolling Stone's latest cover star. Story/Photos:
among them. I spot at least three guitars, a polished black upright piano next to a tasteful canvas of a topless, buxom woman sketched in black pencil, and another sheep for sitting. Janelle sits at the recording desk in her onesie, her tuft of natural short black hair pulled back in a messy bun — it’s not hairstyle-messy, it’s I-woke-up-like-this messy. About an hour into our conversation there, she excuses herself to dart out of the room and returns with a joint.
She’s doing a lot of work to heal those wounds. “I know how to coach myself if it comes up again,” she says to me before ruminating on what lingers. “But all of that I think made me.… And in OCD … if something isn’t exactly how I see it, in my mind, it’s trash.” She started therapy as soon as she started making good money, and now works with an “emotional-support coach,” a good friend who’s delved into mental-wellness work. Janelle tries to meet with her once a week. .
“I’ve told her I need a Janelle Monáe-written and -directed sci-fi movie in my life, and I need it soon,” saysWhile making the film, Janelle’s commitment to storytelling even shone off set — like when Johnson would throw murder-mystery parties for the cast. “Janelle would show up,” he says, “dressed in a top hat and monocle and a detective’s cape. She invented a full character with a backstory and had an accent. She didn’t drop the character for a long, long time into the evening.
Even as the purview of Janelle’s work has grown from music to movies to philanthropy and beyond, she most focused on being creative — and being herself. “The old version of how I would do interviews is I would’ve been in some black and white, and maybe I would’ve put a little makeup on. But I was like, ‘You know what? I actually don’t have …’” she trails off to get kindly blunt. “Not that I don’t care about this interview. But I don’t have the mental capacity to be anything other than who I am.
“I have a whole spreadsheet with 50 to almost 100 experiences that I had at this party,” she says of her courtyard ragers. “I’ve been a Lipstick Lover,” she tells me. “I wear red lipsticks at the parties. I’ve had moments where if me and a girl or an energy …” she says, getting away from gender, “want to engage, you’re going to see lipstick.” Janelle would leave her mark, making it clear they had been kissing.
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