Whenever you have fallen under certain criticisms, how has she helped you navigate the critics? You just care what the right people have to say and everything else is muted.ĪP: In your journey, your mother has been a huge supporter. You shouldn’t care what anybody has to say. For me, it’s like, whose voice do I trust? Who do I know that loves me, cares about me, whose taste do I like, who actually is evolved enough to even understand what it is that I’m doing? Who understands nuance? By the time I get back to the second pass of it, it’s all over the place. When you make a new song, I can’t go soliciting everybody’s opinions about the song. MONAE: It’s not like I don’t care what people think. I’m in the age of pleasure.ĪP: When did you feel comfortable with living life the way you want without caring about others’ opinions? MONAE: That has absolutely nothing to do with me. If we have privilege in certain areas, making sure that we’re lending a hand, lending a voice, amplifying a message.ĪP: How has it been to walk in your truth while facing criticism about your racy performances from people like Arie and Uncle Luke? We have to make sure that we’re showing up for each other. We’re systemically fighting against something much bigger than us, so we got to band together, we got to stick together. You want to take care of each other.Įven if your freedom doesn’t look like that person’s freedom, you understand that we’re fighting against something much bigger than us. With the shows that I do, and when I look out, it’s an experience. Tap into that space and then take care of each other. That’s rooted in self-love - not arrogance. MONAE: Tap into your free (expletive) energy. Sometimes you just don’t know until you get on stage.ĪP: What do you want people to take away from your show? We’re basically just putting a show together based on what we feel is good.

But hearing them live is a different experience, especially when you’re putting them with songs from previous work. I know if you come into the show, you’ll love the songs. Right now, we don’t have a lot of muscle memory with the new songs. MONAE: Yeah, we’re testing out the songs. AP: Since you haven’t toured since 2019, was your recent Essence Festival performance a tune up for your upcoming tour?

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