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Sorry the 2nd post is later this week, I didn't manage to get it finished yesterday. :)  Summer is in full swing and it's been feeling like it lately, with heatwaves in the UK! I've written quite a few summer themed posts on the blog over the years and I'm planning to do another one featuring summer songs soon. This week though, I thought I'd do something a bit different- share some Dance in Public (dance covers of songs performed in public places) videos with summer vibes! :)   [P-POP IN PUBLIC] BINI- Pantropiko Dance Cover- ABK CREW        In summer 2024 I featured a dance cover of the 2023 single Pantropiko by Filipina girl group BINI  in my Dance in Public- V-pop and P-pop Videos post. BINI are known as the "Summer Queens" of P-pop (Pinoy/Filipino pop), due to releasing  summer themed music  and Pantropiko (which translates as "Tropical" in English) is one of the songs that earned them that nickname. It was the 2nd pre-release ...

This week's video is Boom by Dani Enli . She is a Chinese-Australian artist from Perth, Western Australia and her music is a mix of pop, R'n'B, hip hop and Jersey Club . She launched her career in 2024, releasing the single used to it  in February that year. Subsequent songs I LIKE YOU and till the end of time went viral on Instagram. Her other singles include OVER NOW, LIFESTYLE, Light Work and Boom. In addition to being a singer, Dani is also a dancer. She originally planned to be a doctor but her plans changed after she  found out she had a rare medical condition in her final year of medical school and decided to concentrate on making music instead. Authenticity and creative freedom are important to her, as well as Asian representation in global pop . She has performed in several cities in Australia and has also opened for   Kenyon Brown , J.Tajor and Teo Glacier  who are all from New Zealand and/or Australia. Boom is Dani's latest single and was released on...

I'd had this post in my drafts for ages (a year or more!) but just didn't feel inspired to write it. So last year (April 2025) I wrote a post called Teen Thrillers instead. You can see it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/04/teen-thrillers.html Now it's over a year since I did that post and I'm feeling more inspired. So here are my Top 10 thriller films! :)  Please note that the post contains spoilers.  Trigger warning: Some of the films mention sensitive themes.   Note: Sorry for the different text! It got messed up and I'm trying to sort it out. :)     1. Disclosure (1994) Disclosure is based on the book by Michael Crichton (probably best known for Jurassic Park ) ,. Computer  specialist Tom Sanders ( Michael Douglas ) works for the company Digicom. He's married to Susan Hendler (played by British actress Caroline Goodall ) and they have two kids. They're planning to merge with a larger company but there are problems with the CD-...

Today's video is Birds Eye View, the latest single by American singer Alina Baraz . It follows her recent single Take Care Of You which came out in May. Birds Eye View is a gentle pop/R'n'B song with dreamy vibes and the video matches the song. It was released on 26th June.     Also check out the video for Take Care Of You:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2026/05/weekly-music-video_0597442938.html  

In the past few years, I've written occasional posts about my current favourite songs. More recently, I've also done posts featuring my fave songs from the year as a whole (like my Favourite Songs of 2025 post ). So here they are for the first half of 2026! You can see my previous posts at the links below: June 2019: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/06/current-favourite-songs.html May 2020: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/05/current-favourite-songs.html April 2021:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/04/current-favourite-songs.html Feb 2022: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/02/current-favourite-songs.html April 2024:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/04/current-favourite-songs.html   March 2025: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/03/current-favourite-songs.html   Here are the songs I like at the moment. :)     The Kid LAROI- COME DOWN Back in January, I featured some new music by Australian singer and rapper The Kid LA...

This week's video is Sideways by Charlie Puth and featuring Coco Jones . Charlie is an American singer who stared out on YouTube, uploading comedy videos and song covers in 2009. He went on to release his own music, brining out a music video for the song These Are My Sexy Shades in 2010 and releasing his debut EP The Otto Tapes independently in December 2010. The following year, Charlie won the online video competition Can You Sing?  alongside Emily Luther , with a cover of British singer Adele's  Someone Like You. The two singers then signed to eleveneleven , the record label of American comedian and TV host Ellen DeGeneres and released the single Break Again in December 2011. However, after Charlie recovered his first EP with them, eleveneleven disappeared and had dissolved by 2012. He self-released his second EP Ego in October 2013, for streaming and mostly concentrated on production and song writing for other artists over the next year or so. In 2015, Charlie signe...