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Janelle Monáe: We Should Thank Our Exes (FBF)
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- Relationships & psychology
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. J...
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what is up daddy gang it is your founding father alex cooper with call her daddy janelle mona welcome to call her daddy thank you so much for having me i'm first of all i'm just so excited to meet you i'm a huge fan of all your work i was listening to your music on my way here and i'm like okay you are giving sexual sensual fun party vibe it gives all the vibes your album is
amazing I'm so happy to have you here oh thank you so much for having me of course I'm I'm a big fan of your show thank you of your experience rather so I was really happy when I found out we were gonna do this so thank you okay tell me how your summer is going you were on vacation where were you let us pretend we were there with you oh please I'm like can we all just
go on vacation for the whole summer come on everybody everybody let's do this let's all agree that summers are for vacations paid for by the government i love this energy paid for by the government let's we're gonna like manifest it here now because it's like when you were younger i feel like summers were always vacation because off of school but when you become an adult nothing
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