I don’t understand why Janelle Monáe isn’t already an enormous star. Check out the above video — it’s a clever, high-concept pop song that’s catchy as hell, and while I grant that I’m an automatic sucker for any musical act who pretends to be a robot, Monáe is such a cool and original performer that I don’t see the world ignoring her for long.

(The track is off the ridiculous space opera of an EP she put out last year, a sci-fi concept album about a fugitive android girl who falls in love with a human; she also appears this Cee-Lo music video-slash-Coke ad.)