--- --- # Janelle Monáe Shows How to Take Down a Twitter Troll ## Video: Moms In Movies: The Best and The Worst [Watch (HLS stream): Moms In Movies: The Best and The Worst](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ouaixY4l.m3u8) (3:55)  _Published 2014-05-08. Moms In Movies: The Best and The Worst_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 14, 2015 2:25 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 14, 2015 2:25 PM UTC With her [new music video](http://time.com/3820241/janelle-monae-yoga/) for her single “Yoga” taking off, R&B singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe is having a banner week, and she is not going to let any troll on Twitter get in her way. A tweet from a user (who has since made his tweets private) said: “girl stop being so soulful and be sexy..tired of those dumbass suits..you fine but u too damn soulful man.” Her response: “sit down. I’m not for male consumption.” [@mellow\_saa](https://twitter.com/mellow%5Fsaa?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) sit down. I'm not for male consumption. — Janelle Monáe👽🚆🤖🚀🪐 (@JanelleMonae) [April 13, 2015](https://twitter.com/JanelleMonae/status/587499279217885184?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) The tweet has racked up more than 2,200 retweets in 24 hours. ### Go Inside Starbucks' Wild New 'Willy Wonka Factory of Coffee'  On Dec. 5, founder Howard Schultz debuted part of his new strategy for Starbucks: his first flagship “Roastery,” a 15,000 square foot space that is both a coffee roasting facility, and a consumer retail outlet. The place is to coffee what FAO Schwartz is to toys or Dover Street Market is to fashion—retail theatre. Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME  Ian Allen for TIME Janelle Monae Responds on Twitter to Criticism of Clothes ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3820978/janelle-monae-twitter-response/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3820978/janelle-monae-twitter-response/"},"headline":"Janelle Monáe Shows How to Take Down a Twitter Troll","datePublished":"2015-04-14T14:25:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:45.254Z","description":"Can she live?","url":"https://time.com/3820978/janelle-monae-twitter-response/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3820978/janelle-monae-twitter-response/","name":"Janelle Monáe Shows How to Take Down a Twitter Troll"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Moms In Movies: The Best and The Worst","description":"Moms In Movies: The Best and The Worst","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ouaixY4l/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-05-08T20:53:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ouaixY4l.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3820978/janelle-monae-twitter-response/","duration":"PT3M55S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3820978/janelle-monae-twitter-response/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```