Janelle Monáe, Jessie Ware and Self Esteem are part of a wave of women and non-binary artists writing music that champions feeling good in the moment It’s no coincidence 🖋️ _emilybootle
– form a kind of coven of pop pleasure-seekers, drenching listeners in nourishing musical elixirs that both explicitly tell us to seek pleasure and provide it directly with their own sumptuous vocals and irresistible beats.
This appetite for pure enjoyment, no-strings-attached fun and immersion in sensations reflects a broader shift in the cultural mindset. Two years of socially austere lockdowns during theleft people longing for togetherness, celebration and excess; similarly, economic instability and climate disaster render the future uncertain, so in a sense we have little choice but to focus on the present moment.
sings “Prioritise pleasuring me/No need to wait for bended knee”. Monáe simply declares: “I don’t want money or treasure… pay me in pleasure”.
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