Janelle Monáe aims to please on Columbus tour stop on campus – The Columbus Dispatch

Janelle Monáe aims to please on stage.

Janelle Monáe made sure a mostly filled auditorium on Ohio State University’s campus on Friday had a pleasurable time.

“We’re gonna make this the best celebration this venue has ever had,” the singer-rapper-actor told the crowd during “The Age of Pleasure Tour” stop at the Mershon Auditorium in Columbus.

The tour is in support of June’s “The Age of Pleasure,” the singer’s fourth studio album and a departure from their seven-part Afro-futuristic “Metropolis” concept series. The album is Monáe’s first since 2018’s “Dirty Computer,” which…