Django Jane

If Django Jane is any indication of how Dirty Computer will sound, well then, consider my wig  completely snatched.

Released on the same day as Make Me Feel, Django Jane is a quieter video, shot among shadows and plants.

Underground, Jane sits gorgeously, here wearing forest green, there in ruby red. She's flanked by stylish revolutionaries, who move with the staccato unity of Beyonce's Formation dancers.

Only in this video, a smudge stick sits extinguished in a bowl.

Guards watch the front door. 

This revolution feels different.

Here, it's shielded like a candle, protected from the inside out -- spiritually, physically. 

Lyrically. 

Django Jane is both shield and bullet, deflecting against and attacking all manner of prejudice: white supremacy, male patriarchy, restrictive notions of womanhood.

One could say that Django Jane is a continuation of Formation and all of the other pro-black, feminist anthems that came before it.

 But really, Django Jane is her own person. Incomparable.