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This week's video is Eyes by American singer Bazzi . It's his latest single and was released in April, but I only came across it recently. Eyes was previously an unreleased track . I think it was originally intended to be on his debut album COSMIC, which came out back in 2018. Eyes is a love song about experiencing about a deep connection with someone. This is the official audio.   Bazzi fan? Check out this post:  Audio for Middle Man from his 2nd album Infinite Dream (2022), plus links to more music: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/11/weekly-music-video_23.html

I haven't done many general dance video posts this year (this is only my 2nd!) so today I'm featuring some dances from different genres. :) O ANTAVA MAWA |PUSHPA- RANG DE CHOREOGRAPHY  First up is a Telugu (South Indian) dance. This is a choreo to Oo Antava Mawa..Oo Antava from the 2021 Tollywood (Telugu language film industry) movie Pushpa: The Rise- Part 1 . It's performed by Riya Sood and Rishi Sharma from the YouTube channel Rang De. The video was uploaded in January 2022.   Watch the official music video for Oo Antava Mawa..Oo Oo Antava here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_wB6byrl5k   And for more videos by Rang De subscribe to their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rangde8721   Plus, for more Indian and couples dance vids check out these posts: Bollywood Dance Videos- Street Dancer 3D:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/02/bollywood-dance-videos-street-dancer-3d.html Bollywood Dance Videos- Baaghi 3: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/05/bollywo

Today's video is Keep Me In Love by American singer Alina Baraz . It's her latest single and came out on 4th August. Keep Me In Love is about desiring a relationship with a person who matches what you really want (at least that's my interpretation!). It's a song in Alina's signature dreamy, chilled R'n'B style.      Update 29/9/23: There is now a music video. Lovely, dreamy vibes!   Alina fan? Check out this post: New Alina Baraz EP (songs from her 2021 EP Sunbeam): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/10/new-alina-baraz-ep.html Plus, for more chilled R'n'B songs visit this post: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/08/chilled-rnb-songs.html

Back in 2020 when we were all going through stressful times, I wrote a post called Chillout Music, featuring music that helps me relax. And in 2021 I did a follow-up post called More Chillout Songs. You can see them at the links below: Chillout Music: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/06/chillout-music.html More Chillout Songs:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/more-chillout-songs.html Since the world continues to be quite stressful in various aspects, I thought that today I'd share some more songs with chilled vibes, mainly  in the R'n'B genre specifically. They're also a good fit for this time of year, as we get towards the end of summer. (If it's late winter where you are, I hope you also enjoy them!) :) Pia Mia- Songs from My Side Guam born, LA based singer Pia Mia released her EP My Side in 2021. I shared some songs from it in this post, along with some songs from American singer JoJo's EP trying not to think about it:  https://starsparkl

It's been ages since I did a post featuring hula dance, so I thought today I would share one! :)  2 MINUTE HULA - iHula Hawaii   This is a brand-new video (uploaded today) by Lynn from iHula Hawaii, where she teaches a 2 minute routine with basic hula moves that anyone can do.  It was filmed on an empty beach (my favourite kind, lol). Beautiful scenery! :) I've wanted to learn hula dance for years but there are hardly any classes in my area. I actually mentioned it in a post sharing Hawaiian and Tahitian dance  back in 2011! There were some classes several years ago in Sussex but a bit far away for me to easily get there.  I started belly dancing in 2006 and I am still dancing these days, but not as often. I no longer go to regular classes but do workshops and classes when I can. I do have to be careful of my knees though (have had to for quite a while now), so a hula class may not be suitable.  But at least I can have a go by watching online videos!  Watch more hula videos

This week's video is Love Like This, the new single by British singer ZAYN  (full name Zayn Malik), the former One Direction  member turned solo star. It's his first music release in a while. His last single was a cover of the late singer Jimi Hendrix's  1970 song Angel. It was released in November 2022, for what would have been Jimi's 80th birthday. Zayn's last album was 2021's Nobody Is Listening. He was dropped by his record label RCA Records  in late 2021, but signed to the relaunched  Mercury Records  this June. He also signed to United Talent Agency  in January. Love Like This is Zayn's first release on Mercury. It's the lead single from his upcoming 4th studio album and came out on 21st July.  It's a pop and dance song with a laidback vibe. Zayn fan? Check out these posts:   Post about his 2nd album Icarus Falls (2018):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-zayn-album.html Features the 2019 video for Sour Diesel from Icarus Falls

It's been ages since I've done an-all J-pop post (apart from my J-pop in Public ones ). Although I've written a couple of posts sharing some K-pop and J-pop videos  and a couple of  Weekly Music Videos ( Koda Kumi and RIRI ). I think the last New Videos post with just J-pop was in 2021 ! So here is some new Japanese music. :) I've called it "New(ish)" as with previous posts  because a couple of the videos are from June! NOA- BURN First up is BURN, the latest single by solo singer NOA (full name Kazama Noa, or Noa Kazama in Western terms). He released his debut album NO. A in February but I think this is a stand-alone single. BURN is a Japanese and English language song and came out on 20th June.  MISAMO - Do not touch   MISAMO  (also written as MiSaMo) is the first sub-unit of popular K-pop girl group TWICE . It consists of the band's 3 Japanese members, Momo (full name Hirai MoMo), Sana (Minatozaki Sana) and Mina (Myoui Mina). The group is named afte

Today's music video is DASHNI by Dafina Zeqiri and featuring MUMA. Dafina is a Swedish born Kosovar (Kosovo Albanian) singer. She grew up in Sweden and moved to Kosovo aged 19.  Dafina comes from a musical background, since her mum Melihate was an Albanian folk/pop singer. Dafina herself started out in music by entering competitions and released her first album Knock Down in 2008.  Her music is mainly R'n'B and soul, with a mixture of other genres including trap and urban Albanian pop. She sings in both English and Albanian.  To date Dafina has brought out two more albums- Just Me (2011) and Dafine moj (2017) and the EP King (2017). Her singles include Adios, Knockdown featuring Hekuran Krasniqi , Dua qe ta di, Amazing Girl, Nje here ne jete with producer Cricket , Mos Shloe featuring Yll Limani  and DASHNI. Her latest single is DASMA. MUMA (real name Endrit Mumajesi) is an Albanian singer.  DASHNI was released in March last year. It's an Albanian language song. Click &