Dear Listener:

The enclosed songs, text and images are the work, vision and dreams of Janelle Monáe, Palace of the Dogs Patient #57821. I have decided to release this work in accordance with the Inspiration Information Act.

(I would like to stop here to openly state that I have been coerced into this decision by the Zoids, that I am convinced now that 1954 is not just a year–it is an army... that the Palace of the Dogs is haunted and has been for many years...and that many things in the "real world" around us are not what they seem...but I digress...)

As the director of the Palace of the Dogs Arts Asylum, a state-of-the-art federal facility for mutants, lost geniuses and savants, I must tell you that Janelle Monáe is rather unique. Her Metropolis story–Suites 2 and 3 of which are compiled here–is compelling, and on some emotional level, dare I say it, believable. Her story has four major components:

1. That she, Janelle Monáe, is actually from the year 2719;

2. That she was snatched, genoraped and de-existed in that year–or in 21st Century parlance, she was kidnapped by some bodysnatchers one day after work, then had her genetic codes sold illegally to the highest bidder at a body farm, and then lastly, she was forced into a time tunnel and sent back to our era;

3. Back in the year of 2719, there is now a famous android named Cindi Mayweather whose organic compounds were cloned from Ms. Monáe's stolen DNA;

I've spent the better part of the last two years, doing my best to gather all the various elements of this story, as well as to investigate all the various parties involved. Most of the story does not bear logical sense. For example, her claim that she worked at the Palace of the Dogs Musiquarium with the production duo and "punk prophets" Deep Cotton is impossible, for according to federal records and Palace of the Dogs files, Deep Cotton has been officially dead for 56 years, since 1954...

Dubious claims and inconsistencies aside, is Janelle Monáe crazy? Is she truly from the year 2719? Is her direct cloned descendand The ArchAndroid? Is the American government tied to the Great Divide? Is there a world called Metropolis waiting for us in the future? A world full of elves and dwarves? Humans and androids? Clones and aliens?

And most importantly, if the ArchAndroid does exist...can she truly save us?

Max Stellings
Vice Chancellor
The Palace of the Dogs Asylum
April 6, 2010