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Dirty Computer
The 1743rd greatest album of all time
Dirty Computer, released in 2018 by Janelle Monáe, is a genre-blending concept album that fuses funk, alternative R&B, hip hop and electronic pop with cinematic production. Its sound moves between funk-inflected grooves, synth-driven pop and intimate R&B ballads with spoken-word interludes, and its themes focus on identity, sexuality, liberation and Afrofuturist ideas, accompanied by a companion short film that frames the record as an audiovisual narrative.
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