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Watch Janelle Monae’s Enthralling ‘Make Me Feel’ Performance on ‘Colbert’

Singer returns to ‘Late Show’ to deliver inventive rendition of Prince-inspired ‘Dirty Computer’ single

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Janelle Monáe returned to the Late Show Friday to deliver a transfixing performance of her Dirty Computer single “Make Me Feel.”

The rendition opened in black-and-white video with Monáe delivering a Janet Jackson-like dance routine before the performance of the Prince-inspired song wiped to full color with backup dancers, backing band and, at times, a Hall of Mirrors-esque camera effect.

The “Make Me Feel” performance follows similarly inventive “Americans” that she brought to The Late Show ”“ with help from Colbert ”“ when Dirty Computer was released in July.

Monáe recently talked with Rolling Stone at New York’s 92nd Street Y about her acclaimed new LP. “I came back to Dirty Computer after I felt like I had enough time to live,” she said of why it didn’t immediately follow 2010’s ArchAndroid. “I needed to experience more things in my life before I dug into this album. I knew it was going to require a significant of understanding.”

The singer will close out her tour in support of Dirty Computer this weekend at New Orleans’ Voodoo Festival. In December, Monáe will co-star in the Robert Zemeckis film Welcome to Marwen alongside Steve Carell.

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