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#58 [#37]

Name: Americans
Origin: Janelle Monae
Link:

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Nominator: Hannyabal (8/15)

(8, 9, 9)

[The subject matter is too heavy to really enjoy, but I cant really find any fault in it.]

1: After criticizing Futures for failing to take any specific political stance and Only Child for only making a political comment in one almost arbitrary line, it's nice to have a song actually go all in with its messaging.

2: I like this a lot more than her self-love anthem "I Like That" that got nominated last year. I actually almost didn't recognize her, but this time her name clicked when I read it.

3: I'm surprised by how well that sermon sampled in the song actually works; besides the refreshing bluntness of the speech, Sean McMillan seems to have a lot of charisma. There aren't a lot of things I could be less interested in than a Pastor's sermon interrupting things, but here, it really just works wonderfully.

4: She seems like a pretty good person too and I think I might be interested in checking out her earlier work? I haven't read into it too much, but I hear something about more sci-fi leanings in the earlier stuff, which has my attention. Particularly since the only two songs of hers I've heard are basically the exact opposite?

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