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Watch Janelle Monae channel Madonna in Super Bowl Pepsi ad

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Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

By Melissa Ruggieri
Feb 4, 2016

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI

If you don’t love Janelle Monae already – and really, how can you not? – you will find new reasons to admire Atlanta’s Queen of Wondaland in a new Pepsi ad for Super Bowl Sunday.

The 39-second spot finds Monae in her usual uniform of black tux boogieing through The Contours’ “Do You Love Me” before slipping through a door and re-appearing in prime ‘80s Madonna gear for some giddy dance moves to “Express Yourself.”

Monae's commercial joins previously released music-themed Super Bowl ads, including the adorable sheep singing Queen and some wicked David Lee Roth yelps.

Check out Monae’s moves:

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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