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Metropolis (Suite I)
[A brief primer on the tragic city of Metropolis, our android hero known to the world as Cindi Mayweather & the unfortunate turn of eventas that turns our loving hero unto a runway fugitive.]
The year 2719. Five World Wars have decimated the earth. To escape from the ecological destruction, mankind has banded together to create one last great city named Metropolis. Unter the rule of the evil Wolfmasters, the city becomes a decadent wonderland known for its patying robo-zillionaires, riotous ethnic, race and class conflicts and petty holocausts. But zillions come to Metropolis hoping for a better life… because if you can make it in Metropolis, you can make it anywhere…
Into this turbulent world is born Android No. 57821, an Alpha Platinum 9000 named Cindi Mayweather. Unlike other androids, Cindi´s programming includes a rock-star proficiency package and a working soul. Although she is a state-of-the-art organic android, Cindi must abide by THE RULES… the set of laws that decree that, above all things, androids shall never know love -especially with a human. But Cindi is precocious and marked for a special destiny. First, as fate would have it, she becomes the leading voice of a rebellious new form of pop music known as cybersoul. And then, with the eyes of the world watching her, she falls in love with a robo-zillionaire… a dashing human named Anthony Greendown.
Horrified, the Star Commision conducts a thorough investigation. Ending months of public outcry and tabloid speculation, the Droid Control rashly sentences Cindi Mayweather to immediate disassembly. Within the hour, Cindi becomes a criminal, a runaway android, escaping into the Wonderground. And licking their evil chops, the Wolfmasters set the wheels of hell in motion, calling forward bloodthirsty aliens, petulant poltergeists, and devilish bounty hunters with only one command: Cindi Mayweather must die…
-Metropolis the Chase Suite, Special Edition
The ArchAndroid (Suites II & III)
Dear listener,
The enclosed songs, text and images are the work, visions, and dreams of Janelle Monae, Palace of the Dogs Patient #57821. I have decided to release this work in accordance with the Inspiration Information Act. (I would like to stop here to openly state that I have been coerced into this decision by the Zoids, that I am convinced now that 1954 is not just a year-it is an army…that the Palace of the Dogs is haunted and has been for many years…and that many things in the “real world” around us are not what they seam.. but I digress…)
As the director of the Palace of the Dogs Arts Asylum, a state-of-the-art federal facility for mutants, lost geniuses and savants, I must tell you that Janelle Monae is rather unique. Her Metropolis story-Suites 2 and 3 of which are compiled here-is compelling, and on some emotional level, dare I say it, believable. Her story has four major components:
1. That she, Janelle Monae, is actually from the year 2719;
2. That she was snatched, genoraped and de-existed in that year-or in 21st Century parlance, she was kidnapped by some bodysnatchers after work one day, then she had her genetic code sold illegally to the highest bidder at a body farm, and then lastly, she was forced into a time tunnel and sent back to our era;
3. Back in the year 2719, there is now a famous android named Cindi Mayweather whose organic compounds were cloned from Ms. Monae’s stolen DNA;
4. Cindi Mayweather is the mythic ArchAndroid, who has been sent to free the citizens of Metropolis from the Great Divide, a secret society which has been using time travel to suppress freedom and love throughout the ages.
I’ve spent the better part of the last two years, doing my best to gather all the various elements of this story, as well as to investigate all of the various parties involved. Most of the story does not bear logical sense. For example, her claim that she worked at the Palace of the Dogs Musiquarium with the production duo and “punk prophets” Deep Cotton is impossible, for according to federal records and Palace of the Dogs files, Deep Cotton has been officially dead for 56 years, since 1954…
Dubious claims and inconsistencies aside, is Janelle Monae crazy? Is she truly from the year 2719? Is she making music with apparitions? Is her direct cloned descendant The ArchAndroid? Is there a world called Metropolis waiting for us in the future? A world full of elves and dwarves? Humans and androids? Clones and aliens?
And most importantly, if the ArchAndroid does exist…can she truly save us?
Max Stellings, Vice Chancellor The Palace of the Dogs Arts Asylum
April 6, 2010
[A brief primer on the tragic city of Metropolis, our android hero known to the world as Cindi Mayweather & the unfortunate turn of eventas that turns our loving hero unto a runway fugitive.]
The year 2719. Five World Wars have decimated the earth. To escape from the ecological destruction, mankind has banded together to create one last great city named Metropolis. Unter the rule of the evil Wolfmasters, the city becomes a decadent wonderland known for its patying robo-zillionaires, riotous ethnic, race and class conflicts and petty holocausts. But zillions come to Metropolis hoping for a better life… because if you can make it in Metropolis, you can make it anywhere…
Into this turbulent world is born Android No. 57821, an Alpha Platinum 9000 named Cindi Mayweather. Unlike other androids, Cindi´s programming includes a rock-star proficiency package and a working soul. Although she is a state-of-the-art organic android, Cindi must abide by THE RULES… the set of laws that decree that, above all things, androids shall never know love -especially with a human. But Cindi is precocious and marked for a special destiny. First, as fate would have it, she becomes the leading voice of a rebellious new form of pop music known as cybersoul. And then, with the eyes of the world watching her, she falls in love with a robo-zillionaire… a dashing human named Anthony Greendown.
Horrified, the Star Commision conducts a thorough investigation. Ending months of public outcry and tabloid speculation, the Droid Control rashly sentences Cindi Mayweather to immediate disassembly. Within the hour, Cindi becomes a criminal, a runaway android, escaping into the Wonderground. And licking their evil chops, the Wolfmasters set the wheels of hell in motion, calling forward bloodthirsty aliens, petulant poltergeists, and devilish bounty hunters with only one command: Cindi Mayweather must die…
-Metropolis the Chase Suite, Special Edition
The ArchAndroid (Suites II & III)
Dear listener,
The enclosed songs, text and images are the work, visions, and dreams of Janelle Monae, Palace of the Dogs Patient #57821. I have decided to release this work in accordance with the Inspiration Information Act. (I would like to stop here to openly state that I have been coerced into this decision by the Zoids, that I am convinced now that 1954 is not just a year-it is an army…that the Palace of the Dogs is haunted and has been for many years…and that many things in the “real world” around us are not what they seam.. but I digress…)
As the director of the Palace of the Dogs Arts Asylum, a state-of-the-art federal facility for mutants, lost geniuses and savants, I must tell you that Janelle Monae is rather unique. Her Metropolis story-Suites 2 and 3 of which are compiled here-is compelling, and on some emotional level, dare I say it, believable. Her story has four major components:
1. That she, Janelle Monae, is actually from the year 2719;
2. That she was snatched, genoraped and de-existed in that year-or in 21st Century parlance, she was kidnapped by some bodysnatchers after work one day, then she had her genetic code sold illegally to the highest bidder at a body farm, and then lastly, she was forced into a time tunnel and sent back to our era;
3. Back in the year 2719, there is now a famous android named Cindi Mayweather whose organic compounds were cloned from Ms. Monae’s stolen DNA;
4. Cindi Mayweather is the mythic ArchAndroid, who has been sent to free the citizens of Metropolis from the Great Divide, a secret society which has been using time travel to suppress freedom and love throughout the ages.
I’ve spent the better part of the last two years, doing my best to gather all the various elements of this story, as well as to investigate all of the various parties involved. Most of the story does not bear logical sense. For example, her claim that she worked at the Palace of the Dogs Musiquarium with the production duo and “punk prophets” Deep Cotton is impossible, for according to federal records and Palace of the Dogs files, Deep Cotton has been officially dead for 56 years, since 1954…
Dubious claims and inconsistencies aside, is Janelle Monae crazy? Is she truly from the year 2719? Is she making music with apparitions? Is her direct cloned descendant The ArchAndroid? Is there a world called Metropolis waiting for us in the future? A world full of elves and dwarves? Humans and androids? Clones and aliens?
And most importantly, if the ArchAndroid does exist…can she truly save us?
Max Stellings, Vice Chancellor The Palace of the Dogs Arts Asylum
April 6, 2010