British/Swedish singer Mabel (full name Mabel McVey) released her second studio album About Last Night... in July (the follow up to her debut High Expectations). The album was created during the pandemic and sees Mabel trying out new sounds (including dance, synth-pop and disco) in addition to the R'n'B she started out with. It's a concept album based around a party . The lead single from About Last Night... is Let Them Know and two others were subsequently released- Good Luck with British DJ Jax Jones and Swedish music duo Galantis , and Overthinking with American rapper and singer 24kGoldn . Here are a couple of live performances from the album. Let Love Go (Live) First up is a live performance of Let Love Go, a promotional single. It was released in late June. The album and single versions feature American rapper and singer Lil Tecca , but this live Vevo performance is a solo one by Mabel. The video was uploaded on 29th June. Watch the lyric video for Let Love
This week's video is Begging, the new single by Nigerian singer Yemi Alade . It's about being treated badly in a relationship (at least that's how I interpret it) and is a in a mixture of English, Pidgin and a Nigerian language (may be both Yoruba and Igbo but I'm not sure; she speaks both because her parents are from both ethnic groups). Let me know if you're from Nigeria/know exactly what she's singing in. :) Begging was released in July but a music video just came out today. I think it's a stand-alone single (not part of her latest EP, 2021's Queendoncom). Watch the visualiser (clean version) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Dq_vBT33I For more music by Yemi visit this post: Boyz video (post contains links to other videos): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/08/weekly-music-video.html African music fan? Check out these posts: Afropop Round-up 2019-2021: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/afropop-round-up-2019-2021.html Ayra Starr-