Charli XCX and Bleacher's frontman Jack Antonoff have replaced those cute animated hamsters for Kia's latest commercial. The cool part: they cover each other's songs, and both new versions sound pretty awesome. The project is part of the car company's "In-Ride Sessions." Antonoff channels a distorted '80s sound for his cover of "Break the Rules," and Charli XCX goes all out punk princess on "Rollercoaster."
Kia previously featured TOKiMONSTA and Lupe Fiasco for their first installment of In-Ride Sessions back in November.
Charli XCX is will officially release her album Sucker next week, though it is currently streaming for free on iTunes. Earlier today some staff members reviewed the effort for our Junk Mail series, you can read their thoughts here. Prior to streaming the album, she released the songs "Breaking Up," "Gold Coins," "London Queen," "Break the Rules," and "Boom Clap" along with a number of music videos.
Sucker is due out Dec. 16 on Asylum/Atlantic/Neon Gold. It is the follow up to 2013's True Romance.
Charli XCX will join Katy Perry as an opener on her upcoming International Prismatic tour, which kicks off Feb. 20 in Lyon, France and takes the two pop stars through a number of European cities before ending in Stockholm, Sweden.
Meanwhile, Antonoff and his band Bleachers have announced a North American tour for 2015. The Bleachers Come Alive! tour kicks off on March 4 in Vancouver and finishes up on April 9 in Antonoff's hometown of New York City. Opening for Bleachers will be Rochester's Joywaves and Los Angeles's Night Terrors of 1927.
Bleachers' debut album Strange Desire was released back in July and has spawned the singles, "I Wanna Get Better," "Shadow," and "Rollercoaster."
Check out the Kia "In-Ride Sessions" commercial below, and let us know what you think in the comments section!
