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Aqua’s 1997 hit Barbie Girl is football star Raheem Sterling’s guilty pleasure

Updated on: 02 July,2021 09:08 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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The 1997 hit song seemed to have helped him in his recent performance at Euro as he opened the scoring in England’s 2-0 win over Germany, his third goal in four games.

Aqua’s 1997 hit Barbie Girl is football star Raheem Sterling’s guilty pleasure

Raheem Sterling

England football star Raheem Sterling has revealed that Danish-Norwegian dance-pop group, Aqua’s Barbie Girl is his guilty music pleasure.


The 1997 hit song seemed to have helped him in his recent performance at Euro as he opened the scoring in England’s 2-0 win over Germany, his third goal in four games.



According to British tabloid, The Daily Mail, Sterling spoke about it in a Q&A for Lucozade Sport. 


When presenters Josh Denzel and Michael Timbs asked what his guilty pleasure song or genre is, Sterling replied: “You never really hear it [Barbie Girl] now,” before singing a couple of lines from the song. 

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