#p: janelle monáe

[wildspringday]

janelle monáe via instagram

[kcyars189]

janelle monáe via instagram

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Hidden Figures

Rating: PG

Director: Theodore Melfi

Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Glen Powell, Ariana Neal, Saniyya Sidney, Zani Jones Mbayise, Donna Biscoe, Olek Krupa, Aldis Hodge, Kimberly Quinn

Release year: 2016

Genres: drama, history

Blurb: Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crosses all gender and race lines, inspiring generations to dream big.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Multicolored August

Hidden Figures / Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson and Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson

Here we have a twofer--two nice examples of multicolored early 1960s dresses (though classic in style) that also do a good job of presenting the characters. It's easy to see that Mary is the more brash and flashy of the two, while Katherine is more of the "don't rock the boat" type. Mary's dress also has an interesting exterior pocket on the left side.

[groovyfireperson]

[chrisfromthefreakingspace]

Midnight Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson  🌖 🚀

[byneddiedingo]

Ron Clinton Smith, Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson, and Janelle Monáe in Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi, 2016)

Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell. Screenplay: Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Cinematography: Mandy Walker. Production design: Wynn Thomas. Music: Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer.

What's so bad about feeling good? Hidden Figures was 2016's sleeper hit, a feel-good movie that's almost critic-proof because of its good intentions: to tell the stirring, long-neglected story of how Black women mathematicians made a significant contribution to the 1960s American space program. It has some terrific performances from Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe as three of the women, and they get strong support from Kevin Costner and Kirsten Dunst as slightly uptight white folks who can't quite believe that these Black women are up to the task they have to set for them. But one place that the film falters is in casting the likes of Costner and Dunst, well-known Hollywood stars, in those roles: They introduce a note of imbalance in the film, evoking not only the "white savior" figure but also suggesting that the struggle of whites to accept Black people as equals is on a par with the struggle of African Americans to gain that equality. The film also tries to evoke the horrors of Jim Crow by departing from actuality: Katherine Johnson didn't have to sprint across the NASA complex to find a "colored" restroom -- she simply used the one available -- and the scene in which Costner's character smashes the sign outside the segregated restroom is fictional. The early scene in which a white cop comes upon the three women whose car has broken down is meant to create tension, but it too quickly dissipates into feel-goodism when he learns that they're working at NASA and patriotically gives them an escort to work -- doing his part to thwart the commies. A Black director and screenwriters -- Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder are white -- might have kept these suggestions that "white folks were really good at heart" more in balance with the depictions of not only the real pain caused by segregation but also the actual work done by the women.

[cinnamongay]

put my heart shaped glasses over the lens 💖

[screenshothaven]

Hidden Figures (2016)

[wildspringday]

janelle monáe for rolling stone via instagram

[movie-titlecards]

Hidden Figures (2016)

My rating: 7/10

[farshootingstar]

Decided to make some more yandere playlists and knocked out both @concreteparasite guys at once (though Ray already has an official playlist and there is some overlap).

I will admit, though, that I'm a little frustrated, since I was planning on one Ray song being Givin' 'Em What They Love (feat. Prince) by Janelle Monáe, but it's literally the only song from the entire album that's not available to play on Spotify. I assume it's because of the Prince feature on it and I find that to be very arbitrary. I guess consider it a runner-up? Also gave up a song from an OC playlist, since Duvet fits so well for this guy.

For Z, there's less to go on since we have the one episode so far, but man, is it fun. I tried to have some fun in making their list as well. Never expected I'd put a Cars 2 soundtrack song in one of these, but time makes fools of us all. :p

[bardic-inspo]

URL Music Game

Tagged by the lovely @astarionancuntnin 💜

Tagging forward @thewickedkat, @electricshoebox, @persephotea, @mj-bites, @thegalaxysedge22, and @fablewritesnonsense if you feel like doing this! No worries if not!💜

(Idk what the actual rules are but it seems like just pick a song for each letter of your URL? We'll go with that! I just typed in the letter to my liked songs on Spotify and scrolled until I found one I liked that started with it.)

(Spotify only allows for 10 song links per post, so I just put a YT link for the last one)

B: Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World

A: Another Place - Bastille

R: Raphael's Final Act - Borislav Slavov

D: Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes - Fall Out Boy

I: I Caught Fire - The Used

C: Champagne Shit - Janelle Monáe

I: I'm Coming - Tove Lo

N: Nola 1 - PVRIS

S: Stripped - Depeche Mode

P: Perfect Symmetry - Keane

O: Once Upon a December - Christy Altomare

[pillowfriendly]

good golly gosh my music taste is just so cool and awesome

tagged by @anyboli - song for each of your url's letters!

P - Peev Shalpatine by Canadian Softball this lives in my head rent free i play it over the speaker at work and scream it. sorry about me

I - Immaterial by SOPHIE <3

L - Legend Has It by Run the Jewels

L - Lost by Amanda Palmer this song doesnt make me cry no u

O - Oh, Maker by Janelle Monáe song from a perfect album

W - The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid by The Decemberists perfect album #2

F - Freeze and Boil by Blackwater Railroad Company

R - Row Row by Zeal & Ardor

I - In Cauda Venenum by The Dear Hunter have you listened to the dear hunter. will you listen to the dear hunter. when will you listen to the dear hunter

E - Epona by Eluveitie one of my favoritest songs in da worlde

N - Northwest Passage by Unleash the Archers OH FOR JUUUST OOONE TIME. I WOULD TAAAKE THE NORTHWEST PASSAAAAGE

D - Distant Bells by Leprous

L - Long Long Silk Bridge by Susumu Yokota

Y - You Dont Own Me by Son Lux if a song has a marching band in it, its good

hee hee hoo hoo music gaem. baton pass @gallopinggallifreyans @crowbandit @iwishtobeafish @ferrocyan @asha-mage

[flutternozzle]

my top albums of 2023.. as i’m picking them in 2023

with 2008 to 2022 covered, now i can finally do my top albums of this year!! 😝

a p decent year for music, but kind of a strange one to pick for.. 2023 has felt so long that i could've sworn some of these albums ("cracker island" and "this is why") came out last year, some Rly good stuff only came out in the last week or so, and some of my fav stuff of the year has been eps.. so i think like in 2021 i'm gonna do a separate post for those again 😅

"this is why" comes incredibly close to being my album of the year, but i think it's gonna have to go to me rex's "giant elk" - a fucking stellar new release from one of my fav bands 😁✨

the picks:

blur - the ballad of darren

boygenius - the record

carly rae jepsen - the loveliest time

gorillaz - cracker island

janelle monáe - the age of pleasure

jenny lewis - joy’all

me rex - giant elk

paramore - this is why

problem patterns - blouse club

honourable mentions:

olivia rodrigo - guts (rly good album, but just slightly lost out to all of these 😆)

peter gabriel - i/o (only came out last week, and i've only listened once, but if it had come out sooner it'd definitely have made the list 😳)

witching waves - streams and waterways (another Rly fucking good album that only came out last week 😭)