you can’t play this on a piano 😳 the prechorus of Janelle Monáe’s “Make me Feel” contains a run of 5 pitches that take place *within* 4 “notes”….so its chromatic BUT with a quarter tone twist! F# F (E#) E Eb li tle bit of ten der” “sex u al ben der” / no one does it better / theres nothing better The words “bit of” are a quarter step; so, she’s basically singing a blue note; or it could be thought of as a microtone, a 22-24 note scale found in many non-diatonic systems globally (eg India). Tech

Janelle Monáe vs Prince 😳 Prince was a mentor to Monáe and is widely rumored to have participated on “Make me Feel”; though exactly what he did is unclear. Prince’s DJ Lenka Paris wrote (in a subsequently deleted Facebook post) that he had played her the synth line before his passing. Describing it as “so futuristic and so good,” Paris said: “Last night I heard Janelle Monae’s new song. As soon as the synth came in, I went, ‘Oh s—t! That’s it!’ He gave that to her.” However contrary to popular

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