Janelle Monáe joins Call Her Daddy to discuss her personal evolution and the work required to reach her own age of pleasure. Addressing past rejection and trauma from her father's instability, she opens up about how these struggles impacted her personal relationships and how she found herself closed off to love. Janelle and Alex reflect on lessons learned from failed relationships and share why we should actually be going back and thanking our exes. Janelle speaks about her experience being in polyamorous relationships and her choice to openly talk about her sexuality despite coming from a religious family. Janelle and Alex discuss what it means if a partner refuses to post you on social media and debate whether this is actually a red flag. Janelle speaks about the inspiration for her new album, The Age of Pleasure, and what this phase of life means to her. For the game mentioned in the episode look for: Real Talk: 110 Relationship Questions You Should Only Ask Your Friends by Amil Barnes.
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what is up daddy gang it is your founding father alex cooper with call her daddy janelle monet welcome to call her daddy thank you so much for having me i'm first of all i'm just so excited to meet you i'm a huge fan of all your work i was listening to your music on my way here and i'm like okay you are giving sexual sensual fun party vibes it gives all the vibes your album is amazing i'm so happy to have you here
Oh, thank you so much for having me. Of course. I'm a big fan of your show. Thank you. Of your experience, rather. So I was really happy when I found out we were going to do this. So thank you. Thank you.
Okay, tell me how your summer is going. You were on vacation. Where were you? Let us pretend we were there with you.
Oh, please. I'm like, can we all just go on vacation for the whole summer? Come on, everybody. Everybody, let's do this. Let's all agree that summers are for vacations paid for by the government. I love this energy. Paid for by the government.
We're going to like manifest it here now because it's like when you were younger, I feel like summers were always vacation because off of school. But when you become an adult, nothing is fun anymore. We're like, we need to go on vacation. Okay, so where were you?
Okay, so I was in Ibiza, Spain. And then I stayed there for probably like five or six days, which was like an experience. Like it is a party place. So we did not go to sleep. I went with like 10 of my other friends and we didn't go to sleep till like seven in the morning, every morning. I can't even say night. But it was so fun. It was that ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. That Ooch Ooch music.
I kind of like Ooch Ooch, but I need like some hip hop, some something mixed in with it. But it was so fun. The sunsets are beautiful. And then the second portion of the vacay was Jamaica. Oh, I've never been. Ocho Rios. Beautiful people. The food, the chicken patties, the beef patties, the shrimp curry, the plantains. I had at least 152 plantains. What?
what one by one oh yeah the water i'm like oh i feel like i'm there with you oh it was like it was heaven so i will say i'm sort of mentally still there it's okay we can keep it chill we're on vacation this is summer like we're just gonna relax today okay let's relax and it's so interesting that you say like as kids growing up it just reminded me like yeah i didn't take vacations as a kid
I think that's why I'm so adamant about it now. I didn't, you know, my parents worked a lot and we didn't get the opportunity to go outside of Kansas. So I didn't take my first vacation until really my first album came out.
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