Janelle Monáe: We Should Thank Our Exes

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 164.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Janelle Monáe joins Call Her Daddy to discuss her personal evolution and the work required to reach her own age of pleasure. Addressing past rejection and trauma from her father's instability, she opens up about how these struggles impacted her personal relationships and how she found herself closed off to love. Janelle and Alex reflect on lessons learned from failed relationships and share why we should actually be going back and thanking our exes. Janelle speaks about her experience being in polyamorous relationships and her choice to openly talk about her sexuality despite coming from a religious family. Janelle and Alex discuss what it means if a partner refuses to post you on social media and debate whether this is actually a red flag. Janelle speaks about the inspiration for her new album, The Age of Pleasure, and what this phase of life means to her. For the game mentioned in the episode look for: Real Talk: 110 Relationship Questions You Should Only Ask Your Friends by Amil Barnes

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0:00.0	What is up daddy gang? It is your founding father Alex Cooper with call her daddy.
0:11.0	Janelle Monet welcome to call her daddy.
0:13.6	Thank you so much for having me.
0:15.1	I'm, first of all, I'm just so excited to meet you.
0:17.3	I'm a huge fan of all your work.
0:19.7	I was listening to your music on my way here and I'm like okay you are giving sexual
0:23.9	sensual fun party vibes it gives all the vibes your album is amazing I'm so
0:28.3	happy to have you here. Oh thank you so much for having me I'm I'm a big fan of your show of your experience rather so I was
0:37.3	really happy when I found out we were going to do this so thank you.
0:40.4	Thank you. on vacation. Where were you? Let us pretend we were there with you.
1:04.1	Oh please. I'm like can we all just go on vacation for the whole summer?
1:10.5	Come on everybody. Everybody let's do this. Let's all agree that summers are
1:16.1	for vacations paid for by the government. I love this energy paid for by the government.
1:25.0	Let's we're gonna like manifest it here now because it's like when you were younger I feel like
1:30.1	summers were always vacation because off of school but when you become an adult
1:33.9	nothing is fun anymore we're like how we need to go on vacation okay so where were you
1:38.1	okay so I was in a visa a Bitha Spain and then I stay there for Abba, Spain.
1:43.0	And then I stayed there for probably like five or six days, which was like an experience.
1:51.0	Like it is a party place, so we did not go to sleep I went with like 10 of my
1:55.5	other friends and we didn't go to sleep to like seven in the morning every
1:59.2	morning I can't even say night right but it was so fun it was that oo oo oo hm hm hooch music I kind of like oooch ouch
2:09.2	but I need like some hip-hop some something mixed in with it but but it was so fun the sunsets are beautiful and
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