re: 2010 Music Kicks arse

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The Washington Post's Bill Friskics-Warren praised Monáe's "expansive, high-spirited music" and wrote "Not since the '70s heyday of George Clinton's Parliafunkadelicment Thang has anyone fused science fiction/fantasy and genre-defying funk with such vision and aplomb as Janelle Monáe does on this full-length debut".[13] URB's Dan Vidal gave the album 5 out of 5 stars and described it as "a spectrum of sound — packed and arranged perfectly into a masterfully composed (debut) full-length body of work".[17] Vidal called the album a "genre-defying masterpiece" and praised its "infectious innovation" and "musical importance".[17] Giving it an 8.5/10 rating, Pitchfork Media writer Matthew Perpetua praised The ArchAndroid's musical ambition and called it "about as bold as mainstream music gets, marrying the world-building possibilities of the concept album to the big tent genre-mutating pop of Michael Jackson and Prince in their prime".[9] He commended the album for "style hopping" without "compromising quality or cohesion" and cited André 3000's The Love Below (2003) as "its most recent antecedent", but viewed that "Monáe and her songwriting partners skillfully avoid that album's overreach and missteps, showing a similar level of fearless creativity but with greater focus and discipline"

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