Sorry the 2nd post is later this week; I didn't manage to get it finished yet. :) The 90s and 00s was the era of girl groups in the West, in the US and the UK in particular, with groups like En Vogue , the Spice Girls , Destiny's Child , Atomic Kitten , Sugababes , Mis-Teeq and Pussycat Dolls dominating the charts. In the years since, girl groups (along with boybands) have largely faded away and there are predominately solo singers. In other parts of the world, especially Asia, girl groups have remained popular. You'll see this in the K-pop industry particularly. I have often featured Korean girl groups on the blog and also from other Asian in my Asian Groups series in recent years. (The series covers both female and male groups.) I've also written a couple of posts about international girl groups (African and South East Asian). Some of these are older groups though. There are a few exceptions in the West, such as Fifth Harmony , who went...
Today's video is MOVE ON, the new single by Kosovar (Kosovo Albanian) singer Era Istrefi . It came out on 8th March ( International Women's Day ) and is her first release of 2026. MOVE ON was written by Era herself and is a mostly Albanian language song, with the occasional English line. It's in the style of her signature brand of pop and dance with reggae influences. Want more Era? Check out this post: Music video for AMA DO LOVE X HADJE (released last October), plus links to more music: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/10/weekly-music-video_22.html