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Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

Janelle Monae

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Janelle Monae
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 1
Actor
Ballet Dancer
Chanteuse
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Kansas City
Kansas
Song
Songs
Art
Meaning
Three
Listening
Two
Question
May
Beauty
Think
Asks
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Four
Understand
Deeper

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