Watch Charli XCX cover Backstreet Boys inside a music shop
22 May 2013, 15:04
| Written by
Luke Morgan Britton
(Tracks)
Charli XCX isn’t ashamed of her pop sensibilities. Heck, she even proclaimed the Spice Girls and Britney to be her biggest influences recently.
It’s no surprise, then, that the goth-pop songstress chose to cover Backstreet Boys’ classic (of sorts) ‘I Want It That Way’ at an in-store event in Chicago.
Watch that below, via Stereogum.
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