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Many Moons (song)
"Many Moons" is a 2008 song by American singer Janelle Monáe, included on the ''Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)'' album. It was number 47 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.〔"(The 100 Best Songs of 2008 )". ''Rolling Stone'' (December 25, 2008). Retrieved December 25, 2008〕 The song was also nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards. The song's opening section, which involves a refrain of "voodoo," borrows both musically and lyrically from the Pinball Number Count song from Sesame Street, which was performed by The Pointer Sisters.
==Music video==
The video, which Monáe promoted as a short film, takes place at the Annual Android Auction in the fictional city of Metropolis. During the auction, Monae's alter-ego Cindi Mayweather performs for the crowd, while the other androids walk down the catwalk, and are being bought off by the wealthiest of Metropolis, such as technology moguls, city officials, religious authorities, and crime lords, while each android costing billions of British Pounds, as were being used in the short film. She eventually performs so feverishly that she shorts out, and is taken away by Lady Maestra, Master of the ShowDroids (another alter-ego).〔
This video can be seen as an example of Afrofuturism. To quote Mark Bould's article, “The Ships Landed Long Ago: Afrofuturism and Black SF": Through her music video, Monae draws attention to current day power structures and systems of oppression that affect black women by calling on the past--a classic example of afrofuturism and science fiction. Rather than simply critiquing the present as its own entity, Monae examines the implications of the past on the present, and sets up a dystopia that is a far more explicit rendering of our current world.
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