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New Justin Bieber Album

Canadian singer Justin Bieber released a surprise new album last month. It's called SWAG and is his 7th studio album. News of SWAG  only emerged just before its release on 11th July. I think I came across songs from it on YouTube and realised they were from a new album. It had been quite a while since Justin had brought out new music, so I was pleased to find out about it! :) SWAG follows Justin's 6th album Justice and 2nd EP Freedom (both released in 2021). To date it has reached No. 1 in several countries , including Canada, Australia, Norway and Portugal and charted within the Top 10 in more, including the UK, US, Australia, Spain and Japan. The release of SWAG comes after Justin has been through a difficult time in his personal life. There have been rumours of problems in his marriage with wife American model and businesswoman  Hailey Bieber (daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin, one of the Baldwin brothers ) and worries over Justin behaving erratically as well as...
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Weekly Music Video

Today's video is DIED A LITTLE by  LEWY . Her full name is Mariah Lewy and she is an Australian singer-songwriter. Born in Sydney,  LEWY was into music from a young age, after being introduced to American girl group  Destiny's Child by her parents. She started singing lessons aged 5 and also learnt to play the piano and guitar. She likes a wide range of genres from pop to R'n'B and her musical influences include  Lady Gaga , Billie Eilish , Christina Aguilera and Whitney Houston .  In the past few years, LEWY has done live performances, recorded at studios in several countries and posted song covers on YouTube. In addition to singing, she is an actress, having studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney and been selected for the callback stage of Moana (I presume the 2026 live action remake ). Now aged 19, LEWY has been recording an album (scheduled for release this year) and just released the single DIED A LITTLE. Her next ...
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K-pop in Public Dances Round-up

5 years ago I wrote my first K-pop in Public Dances post, featuring dance covers of K-pop songs performed in public places. Since then, the trend has taken off and expanded to other Asian music genres such as J-pop , C-pop , V-pop (Vietnamese pop) and T-pop (Thai pop) . Plus, Western and  African music dance covers . I've written quite a few K-pop in Public Dance posts in the past few years, so I thought I'd do a round-up of them all, plus share a couple of new videos. :)   Note: I haven't included all the K-pop in Public videos featured in my general dance video posts because it would take me longer to write this. But I will share links to past Dance Videos round-ups as well, which should link to most of them.    K-pop in Public Dances:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/08/k-pop-in-public-dances.html   K-pop in Public- EVERGLOW Dances:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/10/k-pop-in-public-everglow-dances.html K-pop in Public- Boys' Ed...
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Weekly Music Video

 Today's video is 12 to 12 by American singer sombr . His real name is Shane Michael Boose and his stage name (which is written in lowercase) is based on his initials. He also  chose it because of how he was feeling at the time. ("Somber"- or "sombre  as we spell it in the UK- means to feel down/sad and serious.) sombr released his debut single nothing left to say (also written in lowercase) in October 2021 and 4 other singles followed, including through it all and caroline. Then in 2023, aged 17, he signed to Warner Records and released the single weak. He also has his own independent record label SMB.  In September that year, he brought out his debut EP in another life. Two more singles from the EP were released, silhouette and my house is warm, plus several more non-album singles.  However, it was this year that sombr's career really took off, when his singles back to friends and undressed (released in December 2024 and March 2025 respectively) went vi...
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20th Anniversary of Mariah's The Emancipation of Mimi- Part 2

In June I wrote a post about the 20th anniversary of my fave singer Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi album. It ended up being a long post, so I split it into two parts! You can see Part 1: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/06/20th-anniversary-of-mariahs.html I also did another post featuring a special live performance that Mariah did to celebrate the anniversary:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/06/mariah-carey-20th-teom-anniversary-live.html Now here is Part 2! Today I'm featuring some songs from The Emancipation of Mimi: Ultra Platinum Edition and the new 20th anniversary edition. :)   Don't Forget About Us Don't Forget About Us was the lead (and only) single from the re-released version of the album (the Ultra Platinum Edition) and came out in October 2005, ahead of the re-release in November 2005. It's one of my favourite songs from TEOM. :) Don't Forget About Us is about a past relationship, although Mariah has stated that the  true mean...
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Weekly Music Video

This week's music video is CHUCO by Peruvian American singer A.CHAL and featuring Peruvian band Los Mirlos and Peruvian producer KAYFEX .  Los Mirlos (whose name translates to "The Blackbirds" in English) plays  Peruvian cumbia music . It's a sub-genre of cumbia, which is thought to have originated in Colombia (specifically from Afro-Colombian funeral traditions. CHUCO is A.CHAL's latest single. It's a Spanish language song and was released on 25th July.      For more music by A.CHAL, check out this post: Music video for LMKK (released last October, plus links to more music:   https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/03/weekly-music-video_12.html   And for more on Los Mirlos and KAYFEX, visit the links below:   Los Mirlos: Boa Viagem Music profile:  https://www.boaviagemmusic.com/artist/los-mirlos/   Official site (Spanish language):  https://losmirlos.com/     KAYFEX: Official site (Spanish/English):  https://w...
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Late Summer Vibes!

We're moving into mid-August and late summer, so before the season is over, I'm sharing some summer themed songs/videos! :) I've written several summer themed posts over the years. Here are 2024's: Vibes for Your Summer!:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/07/vibes-for-your-summer.html Island Vibes!:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/08/island-vibes.html     Similarly to last year , I struggled a bit to think of a title for the post, lol. I've called this one Late Summer Vibes.    Afgan feat. Jessi- Escape In June 2024, Indonesian singer Afgan released the single Escape. It was the 1st single from Sonder, his 2nd English language mini album, which also came out in June. Escape was preceded by Shallow Water  (released in February 2024) and followed Criminal (Over You) featuring American singer  thủy  (released this January). For Escape, Afgan teamed up with South Korean based American rapper Jessi , whose 2017 single Down feature...
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