Watch aespa’s NingNing cover songs by Tori Kelly, Beyoncé and more

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aespa singer NingNing recently covered songs by Tori Kelly, Beyoncé and more during her guest appearance on Lee Mu-jin Service.

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.