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Janelle Monae

July 2024

  • Janelle Monáe on stage in Manchester last week.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Janelle Monáe review: a masterclass in progressive showbiz spectacle

  • Zoe Williams

    The truth about vaginas: how I became a committed vulva-splainer

    Zoe Williams

June 2024

  • A sculpture of an Afro comb, ‘All Power to All People’ artwork by US artist Hank Willis Thomas, in the West Holts field at Glastonbury

    Increase in Black artists on Glasto bill reflects cultural shift

    After Lenny Henry’s 2022 criticism of lack of diversity, this year’s bill features Janelle Monáe, Danny Brown, Little Simz and more
  • Billie Eilish wearing a hat and raising both hands

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Are we in a new era of queer female pop? - podcast

    With Billie Eilish’s Lunch in the charts and queer female artists winning big at this year’s Grammy awards, Chanté Joseph speaks to the queer music writers Charis McGowan and Sean B O’Neill about the trend for authentic and sexually explicit queer female pop music, and how we got here
  • Billie Eilish, centre, with clockwise from bottom left: King Princess, the Japanese House, Peach PRC and Girli.

    ‘I could eat that girl for lunch’: the sexually explicit queer female pop topping the charts

    Billie Eilish is the latest singer to write frankly about sex between women – without it being titillation for men. Artists from King Princess to Girli explain why it’s taken so long

May 2024

  • Janelle Monáe.

    The reader interview
    Janelle Monáe: ‘I have to feel a film role in my pubic hairs. They have to vibrate’

  • Janelle Monáe performing at I Made Rock ‘N’ Roll festival in Indianapolis

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Janelle Monáe

March 2024

  • Pyramid schemes … Dua Lipa, Coldplay's Chris Martin and SZA.

    Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival

    Coldplay become act to headline most times with their fifth top slot, while Shania Twain is booked for the Sunday teatime ‘legend’ set as the lineup is announced

January 2024

  • Taylor Swift, SZA and Olivia Rodrigo – three of the top nominees at 2024’s Grammy awards.

    Grammys 2024: who will win the big categories – and who should

    Can Taylor Swift sweep the board after an astonishingly successful year, or will strong songwriting from the likes of SZA and Olivia Rodrigo be acknowledged?

June 2023

  • Janelle Monáe

    Janelle Monáe: The Age of Pleasure review – time to party

    The feted singer and actor takes a break from dystopian allegories in favour of wild, smouldering fun

March 2023

  • Janelle Monáe, Juan Mata and Yayoi Kusama, who will all present work at Manchester international festival 2023.

    Artists and footballers warm up for Manchester international festival

    Janelle Monáe, work by Yayoi Kusama and Ryuichi Sakamoto and a collaboration between footballer Juan Mata and artist Tino Sehgal kick off at this summer’s event

December 2022

  • Stars of new Knives Out film Glass Onion

    ‘If Agatha Christie was writing now, there’d be a tech billionaire’: Daniel Craig and the stars of Knives Out on the new age of whodunnits

    It was the slowburn hit of 2019 that revived murder mysteries for the big screen. Now Knives Out is back with another killer cast – who talk dressing up, their festive plans and the Mafia fiend among them

November 2022

  • Daniel Craig and Janelle Monáe in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review – Daniel Craig’s drawling detective is back

    Benoit Blanc returns, with a cast of A-listers from Edward Norton to Janelle Monáe, in Rian Johnson’s ingenious new whodunnit romp

September 2022

  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery<br>Undated handout photo issued by Netflix of Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the highly anticipated sequel to Knives Out, which will close the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) this year. Issue date: Wednesday August 3, 2022. PA Photo. Former Bond star Craig will attend alongside director and producer Rian Johnson. Also in attendance will be Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Leslie Odom Jr, Kate Hudson and Madelyn Cline. See PA story SHOWBIZ KnivesOut. Photo credit should read: Netflix/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    First look review
    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review – sequel has more bang for buck but blunter weapon

    Toronto film festival: Rian Johnson’s entertaining follow-up brings back Daniel Craig and the same, if less potent, cocktail of twists and mystery

April 2021

  • Antebellum, with Janelle Monáe.

    Antebellum review – the horrors of slavery repackaged as entertainment

    Janelle Monáe stars in a lushly shot thriller that fails to justify its subject matter with anything resembling social commentary

September 2020

  • Julianne Moore as Gloria Steinem and Bette Midler as Bella Abzug in The Glorias.

    The Glorias review – Gloria Steinem biopic is a laughably shoddy mess

  • Janelle Monae photographed in Los Angeles, CA, August, 2020

    Weekend fashion special autumn/winter 2020
    Janelle Monáe: ‘What is a revolution without a song?’

June 2020

  • Lizzo and Lil Nas X together at the American Music awards last November.

    Lizzo and Lil Nas X criticise Blackout Tuesday for obscuring protests

    Musicians lead call for constructive response to share helpful information among those moved by George Floyd death, rather than posting millions of black squares

May 2020

  • Katherine Parkinson in Unprecedented

    Lockdown culture
    The week in TV: Unprecedented; A House Through Time; The First Team; Space Force and more

    Hats off to Headlong’s cracking series of short lockdown dramas. Elsewhere, Steve Carell fails to take off but Janelle Monáe enthrals

February 2020

  • Oscars twofer … Steve Martin and Chris Rock deliver their take on the traditional Academy Awards opening monologue.

    Oscars TV viewing figures sinks to all-time low

    Live TV audience for Academy Awards broadcast down 20% from 2019, with lack of host considered handicap
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