Janelle Monáe’s new album will come with a 50-minute Afrofuturist film. Breathe.

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If this were 1998 and Janelle Monáe just released her music video, “Pynk,” she’d be sitting at the top of MTV’s Total Request Live every day for months.

Alas, it’s 2018 and we no longer have Carson Daly to guide our spiritual music journey. Which is why I’m here to ask you all to quietly bow down to Janelle Monáe next album, Dirty Computer, scheduled to drop April 27.

The album will apparently come with a 50-minute Afrofuturist film featuring black, brown, queer, and trans people under threat from an authoritarian government trying to scrape their memories.

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