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Today's video is Explore by Chinese Canadian singer Kris Wu (former member of Korean/Chinese boyband EXO who went solo in 2014). it's from his debut album Antares which was released in November.

Explore is one of my favourite songs from Antares. It's in English (Kris also sings in Mandarin but the majority of the songs on the album are English). It hasn't been released as single so this is an audio, but if there's a music video later I'll update this post. :)


For more songs from Antares check out these posts:

Deserve feat. Travis Scott: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/10/weekly-music-video_18.html

Like That: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/05/weekly-music-video_86.html

Tian Di: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/06/weekly-music-video_13.html

 Includes Tian Di and Hold Me Down: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/08/c-pop-saturday.html

Freedom feat. Jhené Aiko: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/10/weekly-music-video_10.html

November Rai…

With a new series of Teen Mom UK starting later this month, and a new season of Teen Mom 2 staring in the US on Monday, I thought now would be a good time to do a round-up of Teen Mom posts. :)


Teen Mom OG:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/05/return-of-teen-mom.html

Teen Mom 2:

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2011/05/teen-mom-2.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/08/teen-mom-2-is-back.html

Teen Mom UK:

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/11/teen-mom-uk.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/07/return-of-teen-mom-uk.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/03/new-teen-mom-uk-series.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/08/teen-mom-uk-is-back.html

Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/03/teen-mom-young-and-pregnant.html

TM OG + Young and Pregnant: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/11/new-teen-mom-og-teen-mom-young-and.html



Here's a video of 8 of the Teen Moms, including Catelynn Lowell Maci Bookout, Cheyenne Floyd (TM O…

This week's video is On The Low by Nigerian singer Burna Boy. His real name is Damini Ogulo and he is from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He's also lived in England. His grandad is broadcaster and music critic Benson Idonije, on of the founders of Radio Nigeria.

Burna Boy started out in music in late 2010, but his real breakthrough single was Like To Party, released in summer 2012. His other singles include Tonight, Yawa Dey, Run My Race , Soke, Gbona and On The Low.

Burna Boy's type of music is known as Afrofusion, and to date he has released 2 mixtapes and 3 albums. His latest LP is OUTSIDE which came out last year. The title track features Swedish/British singer Mabel. In 2015 he founded his own record label OnASpaceship.

On The Low came out in November. I first saw the video on an Afrobeats TV progamme last month.




For more on Burna Boy visit these links:

Notjustok profile: https://notjustok.com/artists/burna-boy/

Official site: http://www.onaspaceship.com/

Official FB: https:…

ZAYN aka Zayn Malik (former member of British boyband One Direction turned solo singer) recently released his 2nd album. It's called Icarus Falls and contains an impressive 27 songs! It came our on 14th December.

I like Zayn's debut album Mind of Mine and have several songs from that. I think Icarus Falls has a similar vibe, so if you like his previous stuff, you ll probably like this. He's teamed up with American rapper Nicki Minaj on the single No Candle No Light, and American rapper and producer Timbaland for Too Much.

Singles released  from Icarus Falls so far are Let Me, Entertainer, Sour Diesel, Too Much, Fingers and No Candle No Light. My favourites are Stand Still (bought that over Christmas), Imprint, If I Got You and I Don't Mind. I also  like Let Me, Flight of the Stars and Talk To Me. I plan to buy more songs in future.

Here are a few songs from the album. :)

This is Let Me which was released in april last year and I featured it as a Weekly Music Video: ht…

Happy 2019! Hope you had a great New Year. :)

Starting the year off with Wasted Love Freestyle, a new song from American singer Jhené Aiko. It's nice and chilled, usual " Jhené" vibe and a relaxing song to listen to all after all the excitement and activity of Christmas and New Year! :

Wasted Love was uploaded to YouTube on 19th December. Just an audio currently but I'll update if there's a video in future. :)



Jhené fan? Check out these links:

The Worst: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2014/05/weekly-music-video.html

The Pressure: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/weekly-music-video_8.html

Wading: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/weekly-music-video_65.html

Living Room Flow: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/weekly-music-video_22.html

Sativa feat. Rae Sremmurd: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/02/weekly-music-video_22.html

Freedom (with Kris Wu): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/10/weekly-music-video_10.html

It's almost the end of 2018, so here's a round-up of the best post of the year! :)

Read 2016's Best Of here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/12/best-of-2016.html

And 2017's here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-of-2017.html


Music

At the beginning of the year I did two posts with new music for 2018:

New Music for 2018- Part 1: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-music-for-2018-part-1.html

New Music for 2018- Part 2: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-music-for-2018-part-2.html



African

No African features this year (like last year's African Music), but an African artists featured in New Music (see below).

Includes Tiwa Savage's Sugarcane: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-music-for-2018-part-1.html

 And in several Weekly Music Videos:


Sugarboy feat. Chop- Ycee (Nigerian) : https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/04/weekly-music-video_11.html

Vanessa Mdee- Bounce (Tanzanian): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/201…