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Today's video is Habibi Ya Nour El Ain  by Egyptian singer Amr Diab . Amr (full name Amr Abdul-Basset- Abdul-Azeez Diab) is one of the most popular Egyptian and Arabic singers and has won the World Music Awards twice. His music is geel pop, with elements of rai, flamenco and Western pop. He's been credited with creating his own musical style , which is called "Mediterranean music". Amr's career spans 30 years, he released his first album Ya Tareea in 1983 and to date has released 28 albums (including a singles collection)! Two of the most successful are Nour El Ain (Light Of The Eye) which was released in 1996 and Aktar Wahed (2001). Nour El Ain is from the album of the same name. It's one of Amr's most successful songs worldwide and an English version called Habibi was also released. I've often danced to it at haflas ! Watch the video on YouTube to see a translation for the lyrics. Update 8/6/16: There doesn't appear to be an English translati

Here are the lyrics for Hide and Run from Elevation. Again mostly done by me but I also used AZ Lyrics for help. The French version of this is Tentation (Temptation). Hide and Run Verse 1 Are you hiding something..I don't know? A guilty look's enough to tell me Do you want me to push you more and more? Suspicion in my mind allows me Why can't you just tell what I should know? Whenever you deny it hurts me Don't you try to blame it on my ego Suspicion in my mind allows me Chorus What's the point of lying? Don't you know it's getting worse? Visions in my mind are going to make me burst Why you holding back information you should say to my face? What you gonna do when you can no more hide and run? I will chase you down unless you say it all This can go painless for us..you sh- should know I- I- I will chase you down unless you say it all Say it say it all Say say say it all Verse 2 Always be this difference between us God, you'

Today it's Angels by Within Temptation . They are a Dutch metal/rock band, their earlier music has been described as gothic metal but they consider themselves a "melodic, symphonic rock" band with different influences. Within Temptation was formed in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and her boyfriend guitarist Robert Westerholt. They were joined by other members of Robert's previous band The Circle (now Voyage), bass guitarists Jeroen van Veen, guitar player Michiel Papenhove, keyboardist Martijn Westerholt (Robert's brother) and drummer Dennis Leeflang. The current members are Sharon, lead guitarist Ruud Jolie, Jeroen, drummer Mike Coolen, keyboard player Martijn Spierenburg, who replaced drummer Stephen van Haestregt in 2010 and guitar player Stefan Hellenblad, who joined the band in 2011, after Robert decided he wanted to focus more on producing and writing rather than performing live. Other past members are Ivan de Graaf, Richard Willemse, Marius van Pyreen, C

Here's another post as part of the Anggun Lyrics Project for her album Elevation. Here are the lyrics for Give it to love. They're mostly done by me but I used AZ Lyrics for help. The French version of this song is Cette nuit (Tonight). Give it to love Chorus Fly your mind to this fantasy Take your body and move with me..tonight Give it to love..to love Oooh oooh ooooh Verse 1 Feel all around Hear the sound Close your eyes Taste the night Don't care about anything or anyone outside (yeah) No boundaries Mysteries Trust in me Can't you see? I only wanna have your body next to me... And set you free  Chorus Take me to the higher ground You can take me higher (ah ah) Repeat x4 Verse 2 Get (?) from my lips Fingertips All you need..you can keep (?) Take anything at any time, why don't you please? No telling lies justifies Want you till night is through Show me every single thing a man can do All you can do Chorus Do

This week it's Oasis by Tarja Turunen , ex Nightwish member and solo singer. Tarja was basically kicked out of the band in 2005 and went on to launch a solo career. She is a classically trained soprano singer and also plays the piano. Oasis is from her second solo album My Winter Storm (2007) and is in Finnish (Tarja's native language). It's a really nice song. Visit Tarja's site at: www.tarjaturunen.com

I thought I'd do something different for the "vs" category! Today I'm posting two songs that use similar music and beats from J-pop and Bollywood. Update 14/9/18: Videos are now blocked from being shown on third party applications. If you click on the videos you can watch them fine on YouTube. :)  The first one is the song Want Me, Want Me by Japanese singer Namie Amuro . It was released as a single in 2005 and was on her third compilation album BEST FICTION (2008). According to Wikipedia it features a sitar sample. Update 26/7/24: A lot of Namie's videos have now been removed from YouTube, but here's a TV ad for the single:                                                                                                               The second one is the song Aa Khushi Se Khudkhusi Kar Le from the 2007 Bollywood film Darling .  Fardeen Khan stars in the film as Aditya ("Adit"), who is married to Ashwini ( Isha/Eesha Koppikar ) but havin

Today's video is for You & Me, the latest single by Disclosure . It's one of my current favourite songs and it features Eliza Doolittle . Disclosure's debut album Settle is out now. For more on Eliza and a video of the Piano version of You & Me, visit her site: www.elizadoolittle.com

Here's another song from Anggun's album Elevation. This one is called Stronger and features Big Ali, an American rapper based in France. The French version is Plus forte (Stronger). Update 22/11/14: The original video I posted is gone, so here's a link to a new one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnA4EOfDFVA There are also lyrics on this video, they're slightly different to mine. :) Stronger  feat. Big Ali Big Ali: You see a lot of these people Can't understand when you trying to do better for yourself A lot of times they wanna bring you down A lot of times they wanna hate on you But they can't understand That  makes us stronger Anggun, let's go! Verse 1 Big Ali: Wanna break me down? Wanna break me down Wanna tear me up? Wanna tear me up Wanna scream and shout? Wanna scream and shout ( Anggun, come on) Well you can try Wanna let me down Wanna leave me out? Wanna leave me out Wanna push me round? Wanna push me round G