Beabadoobee‘s viral lip-sync on TikTok of their track ‘The Leanover’.It only took a 10-second-long clip of the former NME cover star lip-syncing to the 2000s deep cut by the Glasgow indie band to turn it into a new alt-girl anthem on the platform, with over 69,000 videos on the app and 3 million Spotify streams, 21 years after its release.Talking about the recently-revived track, Life Without Buildings’s guitarist Chris Evans said it was down to the song’s ability to “take you somewhere or to a certain somebody – it can also be a wilful thought, say if you’re singing along in the backseat of your stepdad’s car.”NME‘s Lucy Harbron also put the song’s success down to the fact that its “opening humming lends itself to an exaggerated satisfied.
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