JANELLE MONÁE’S ALBUM, METROPOLIS: THE CHASE SUITE AND THE AFROFUTURIST

ELEMENTS IN IT
Made by Kitti Juhász
Janelle Monáe

• Janelle Monáe was born in 1985 in

Kansas City
• Her mother was a janitor, and her
father was a garbage truck driver.
• She began performing as a child.
• American Musical and Dramatic
Academy in New York City
Metropolis: The Chase
Suite
• Released in 2007.
• -5 songs: March of the
Wolfmasters, Violet Stars
Happy Hunting!, Many Moons,
Cybertronic Purgatory,
Sincerely, Jane
• Alter- ego: Cindi Mayweather
• The film, Metropolis
March of the Wolfmasters,
Violet Stars Happy Hunting!

• Android 57821 Cindi

Mayweather
• Freedom
• Totalitarian society
Many Moons

• Objects
• Androids  Slaves
• “We’re dancing free but
we’re stuck here
underground” 
Underground Railroad
Many Moons
 Work cited
• English, Daylanne K., and Alvin Kim. “Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe's
Neo-Afrofuturism.” American Studies, vol. 52, no. 4, 2013, pp. 217–230. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/24589278. Accessed 26 Nov. 2020.
• Bengal, Rebecca. “'You Don't Own or Control Me': Janelle Monáe on Her Music, Politics
and Undefinable Sexuality.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 22 Feb. 2018,
www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/22/you-dont-own-or-control-me-janelle-
monae-on-her-music-politics-and-undefinable-sexuality.
• Dobkin, Alix, and Ronnie Gilbert. “Singing for the Revolution.” The Women's Review of
Books, vol. 33, no. 2, 2016, pp. 25–26. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26433219.
Accessed 26 Nov. 2020.