Beyoncé continues to pay tribute to the late Prince on her Formation Tour.

At last night’s Dallas date of Beyoncé’s recently-kicked off world tour, she performed Prince’s ‘The Beautiful Ones’. This isn’t the first time she’s covered his music on her North American run, having done a rendition of ‘Purple Rain’ in Miami on the first night. It also isn’t her first go at ‘The Beautiful Ones’, as she performed it at Glastonbury in 2011.

Beyoncé’s sixth album Lemonade continues to delight and confound. Yesterday, veteran feminist theorist bell hooks, who has previously referred to Beyoncé as a “terrorist”, published an essay about the commodification of bodies that she perceived in Bey’s latest work. While hooks’ tomes like Feminism is For Everybody and other texts are essential building blocks for black feminism, trans writer, activist and host of MSNBC’s weekly culture show So POPular Janet Mock contested hooks’ critique in a Facebook post that explains why the inaccessibility of academia is no longer in line with current discourses. Both are important reads.

Watch Beyoncé cover ‘The Beautiful Ones’ below.

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