After singing her praises in our current issue, there wasn’t much Janelle Monae needed to do in order to capture my devotion any more than she already had. But, oh no, the sci-fi R&B superstar in the making, had to drop this insane video for “Many Moons.”

The big budget video (you can thank the deep pockets of Puffy for that) incorporates her live band on-stage energy, a futuristic fashion runway theme, plus all sorts of other striking visuals (nice horse) as well. Basically it’s her “November Rain,” sans the guitar solo atop a grand piano.

Just two more days until that Wonder Ballroom show…

End Hits: We want to live in Janelle’s world.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7YWggEPqox0%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

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