Watch Janelle Monáe cover David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ on Letterman

Last night Janelle Monáe shunned the conventional route of playing songs from her new record on Letterman. Instead, she took to a big, hand-clapping cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’.

Like any Monáe performance, everything was coordinated to a T. She even rolls her eyes in time with the hand movements of her backing dancers. Dressed in snazzy all-white suits, the band of 11 run through a rendition - no doubt it reinterprets the original, but it still sounds bloody huge.

Janelle Monáe’s new album ‘The Electric Lady’ is out now on Atlantic.