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Amanda Harrison on Jan 27th, 2012
The band achieved greater success with 1999's multi-platinum selling Enema of the State, which reached #9 on the Billboard 200 on the strength of the singles "What's My Age Again" and "All the Small Things", the latter of which became the highest-charting song of their career by reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Amanda Harrison on Apr 18th, 2011
Both also include a performing female android, though to very different effect. Where Metropolis android Maria is the evil, havoc-sowing double of the messianic figure to the city's strictly segregated working class, Monae's messianic android muse Cindi Mayweather represents an interpretation of androids as that segregated minority, which Monae describes as "... the Other.