Monáe and their trusty Wondaland partners, the album's dominant creative force, colorfully twist and flip new wave-leaning pop with booming bass drums and rattling percussion. Oddly enough, "Make Me Feel," the one Dirty Computer track on which Monáe employs a wholly pop songwriting team including Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter, and Mattman & Robin, is the funkiest and friskiest number here, clearly influenced by the late (and uncredited) Prince. Moreover, the song's humanized, sexually uninhibited, and anti-authoritarian qualities - they were earthbound, celebrating their body, asserting "You cannot police me" - also indicated the course they have taken with their third album. "Yoga" did show that Monáe was more open to messing with contemporary trends. That Monáe hadn't previously hit the chart as a headliner was further evidence of a flawed industry, given that they and primary collaborators Nate Wonder and Chuck Lightning had been making songs with pop appeal for nearly a decade. Three years old and outshined by another Wondaland release, Jidenna's "Classic Man," it nevertheless became Monáe's first single to hit the Billboard Hot 100. "Yoga" was an ostensibly minor part of the Janelle Monáe discography by the arrival of Dirty Computer.
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