I don't think I ever paid too much attention to the lyrics of this song before. But it talks about giving yourself grace, changing from being reactive, and rethinking how you interact with the world.
I'm not sure how I missed that #JanelleMonáe released a new album all the way back in June, but I am kinda glad I just found out now, because its jazz club feeling seems much more suitable for the darker autumn evenings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jppx-EFJ818
"Narratives that use robots and androids to represent the Other often don’t interrogate the assumptions about humanity at their core because they fail to answer one question:
Why are so many androids white?"
Read the rest of my essay "Androids and Allegory" at Twelfth Planet Press.