Whoa! Singer Janelle Monáe dances around in VAGINA pants and shows off fake pubic hair in provocative new music video that 'celebrates self love and sexuality'
- PYNK is the third single off her hotly anticipated third album, Dirty Computer, out on April 27
- Featuring Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson, the video sees the actress emerge from the center of Monáe's vagina pants
- In another scene, Monáe can be seen dancing in a bedroom wearing a pair of panties featuring the words 'Sex Cells' embroidered on the front
- Actress Elizabeth Banks immediately took to Twitter to put forward her theory that the song was clearly about female genitalia, tweeting 'Whoa, vagina pants'
Janelle Monáe causes quite the stir with her new music video - not with the song itself, but rather the clip's incredibly provocative content, that includes the singer dancing around in a pair of flamboyant vagina pants and flaunting fake pubic hair.
Indeed, the 32-year-old seems to have taken a great deal of inspiration from the female form when it came to creating the video for PYNK, placing vaginal imagery and innuendo front and center.
'PYNK is a brash celebration of creation, self love, sexuality, and pussy power!' Monáe explains on YouTube. 'PYNK is the color that unites us all, for pink is the color found in the deepest and darkest nooks and crannies of humans everywhere... PYNK is where the future is born....'
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Pink ladies: Singer Janelle Monáe dances around in a pair of vagina pants in the new video for her song PYNK
Rebirth: Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson also appears in the video and seems to emerge from the center of Monáe's vagina pants
Pussy power: The 32-year-old shared that the video is a 'brash celebration of creation, self love, sexuality, and pussy power!'
Apparently, this translates to the singer and her backup dancers donning vagina-inspired outfits for a portion of the video, and invoking images associated with female genitalia courtesy of a raw oyster, a pink ring donut and a pink grapefruit sliced in half.
And the provocative feminine imagery certainly doesn't end there.
In another scene, Monáe can be seen dancing in a bedroom wearing a pair of panties featuring the words 'Sex Cells' embroidered on the front.
The camera also pans in on another woman wearing similar panties that feature the words, 'I grab back'.
Fans of her music have likened the video the work of American modernist artist Georgia O'Keefe, who rose to critical acclaim for her flower paintings that were likened to vaginas.
And even actress Elizabeth Banks took to Twitter to put forward her theory that the song was clearly about female genitalia.
'Whoa, vagina pants,' she tweeted to her 2.35 million followers.
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Whoa: Elizabeth Banks took to Twitter to put forward her theory that the song was clearly about female genitalia
Spelling it out: Monáe can be seen dancing in a bedroom wearing a pair of panties featuring the words 'Sex Cells' embroidered on the front
Symbolism: Director Emma Westenberg invoked images associated with female genitalia courtesy of a raw oyster and a pink ring donut elsewhere in the video
Taking control: In another scene, a woman can be seen wearing a pair of panties that read, 'I grab back'
Directed by Emma Westenberg, the video also features Thor: Ragnarok actress Tessa Thompson, who appeared in Monáe's sexually charged Make Me Feel video in February. In PYNK, Thompson can be seen emerging from Monáe's thighs which are clad in the vagina pants.
And in Make Me Feel, Thompson plays Monáe's female love interest as the singer flits between flirting with a man and a woman.
For months, there's been growing speculation about whether Monáe and Hollywood star Tessa Thompson are in a romantic relationship.
However neither woman has issued an official statement to confirm or deny the gossip buzzing around the status of their relationship, and in 2013 when Monáe was asked is she was 'into girls' on the radio show Sway in the Morning, she refused to define her sexuality.
'There's nothing wrong with being bisexual. There's nothing wrong with being a lesbian or gay. I am an advocate. I have friends who are in same-sex relationships. I think that love has no sexual orientation,' she said.
Feline fine: A grey haired cat is also featured in the video to represent 'pussy power' and Monáe can be seen stroking it symbolically
Making a mountain: In another shot, several women's butts can be seen lined up in a row
Go figure: In the pink tinged video, the singer also wears a red and pink dress featuring an exaggerated hourglass silhouette
'You know what, I keep my personal life to myself. I think one of the things about that is that I want everyone to focus on my music.'
However, in more recent years she has declared herself an advocate of the LGBTQ community and in an interview with The Guardian in February 2018, she explained that she now feels 'sexually liberated'.
'I hope that comes across. That people feel more free, no matter where they are in their lives, that they feel celebrated,' she said.
'Because I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body. That was personal for me to even talk about: to let people know you don't own or control me and you will not use my image to defame or denounce other women.'
Canadian singer Grimes also worked on the track, however she does not appear in the video.
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