aespa singer NingNing recently covered songs by Tori Kelly, Beyoncé and more during her guest appearance on Lee Mu-jin Service.
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aespa’s NingNing made an appearance on the May 28 episode of the popular YouTube talk show, Lee Mu-jin Service. The Chinese K-pop idol came on the show to promote the girl group’s first studio album single ‘Armageddon’, which released earlier this week, and also performed a handful of covers.
The vocalist kicked off her appearance on the show with a short solo rendition of the 2023 aespa song, ‘Thirsty’, before following it up with abridged covers of K-pop girl group S.E.S.’s hit 2000 song ‘Be Natural’ and ‘Good Things’ by Kehlani and Zedd.
Following a cover of Tori Kelly’s 2015 song ‘Paper Hearts’, NingNing opened up about how she was “inspired by Beyoncé’s performances” when she was younger. “When I came across Beyoncé’s performance, I knew I wanted to be like her,” the aespa singer added, before launching into a brief rendition of the pop star’s 2003 hit ‘Me, Myself and I’.
To close out the episode, NingNing and Lee Mu-jin teamed up to cover the duet ‘Breath’ by Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon and late SHINee singer Jonghyun.
NingNing’s appearance on Lee Mu-jin Service came just a day after aespa – completed by Karina, Winter and Giselle – released ‘Armageddon’. The record dropped alongside a music video for its title track of the same name, which was the second song from the album to receive a video treatment, following ‘Supernova’.
aespa are next set to embark on an expansive world tour dubbed ‘SYNK: Parallel Line’, which kicks off with a two-night show in Seoul on June 29 and 30. They are then set to perform shows across cities in Japan, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Australia over the course of the next four months.
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