Janelle Monáe’s “Lipstick Lover” Video Is a Sexy, Sapphic Fever Dream, Janelle Monáe has announced their first album in five years, The Age of Pleasure, and dropped a new single, “Lipstick Lover,” complete with a steamy, summery visual to boot.
Janelle Monáe has announced their first album in five years, The Age of Pleasure, and dropped a new single, “Lipstick Lover,” complete with a steamy, summery visual to boot.
This is our oasis made with love, rooted in self-acceptance, throbbing in self-discovery, and signed with cherry red kisses from me to you,” the singer said in a statement to NME. “Lipstick Lover” is, Monáe decreed, “our freeassmothafucka anthem inspired.
Janelle Monáe’s “Lipstick Lover” Video
The video would best be described as a queer oasis, set at what appears to be a pool party in paradise.
After Monáe is woken up with a kiss, the singer can be seen embracing a woman’s ass, taking an exceptionally sensual hit off a blunt in another woman’s hand, and masturbating on a bed covered with candy-colored sex toys.
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As it turns out, Cindi was sent to save the residents of a town called Metropolis (named for the 1927 sci-fi film) from The Great Divide, a “secret society that uses time travel to suppress freedom and love.”
In their early conceptual work, Monáe explored existence (and resistance) as a Black queer person without ever explicitly identifying as such, with Cindi Mayweather serving as a screen of plausible deniability.
