Star Sparkle Blog

Last year I did a Best Of 2016 post listing my favourite posts on the blog from that year. You can read it here:  http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/best-of-2016.html Now it's time for 2017's Best Of post! :) Music  Asian I did a post on different types of Asian music in Feb: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/asian-music-k-pop-j-pop-and-beyond.html African Also did an African music feature in October:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/african-music.html C-pop There wasn't much C-pop this year (I'd like to listen to more in 2018) but there were a couple of Weekly Music Videos: EXO- Ko Ko Bop (Korean and Chinese):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/weekly-music-video_16.html Jackson Wang from GOT7 (English and Chinese, I think): https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/weekly-music-video_29.html Eurovision I did Eurovision posts in 2017, a round-up and a new one: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co...

Hope everybody had a good Christmas! (Or if you celebrated something else I hope you had a good festival and/or weekend)! :) Today's video is One Song Away by Pia Mia . it's from her 2nd EP/mixtape The Gift 2 which was released on 15th December. The first single from it is Off My Feet which came out on 1st December. I have The Gift (Pia released it online for free  as well as on iTunes) and I bought this song and a couple of others just before Christmas. You can buy The Gift 2 on iTunes and Amazon. One Song Away is actually an audio but if there's a video in future I'll update this post. :) More Pia? Go here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/weekly-music-video_28.html https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/weekly-music-video_9.html P.S. Stay tuned for a Best of 2017 post, the follow up to last year's for 2016 . :)

Last year I did a Christmas round-up post which you can read here:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/12/christmas-round-up.html  Now Christmas is here again, so here's a new festive themed post! Music These are my most recent Christmas music video posts: Lindsey Stirling's Carol of the Bells:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/12/weekly-music-video_13.html   K-pop Christmas!: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/12/k-pop-christmas.html Ariana Grande's Wit It This Christmas: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/12/weekly-music-video_20.html Also check out more songs from Ariana's Christmas & Chill EP: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/12/ariana-grande-christmas-songs.html Here Mariah Carey's single Oh Santa! from 2010: And the video for The Star, from the new animated film of the same name: Also I found a K-pop themed Christmas playlist on YouTube. (I've added it to the K-pop Christmas post). Listen here: ht...

It's Christmas next week so today's video is another festive themed one! Here's Wit It This Christmas by Ariana Grande . It wasn't released as a single, so this is an audio, not an actual music video. You can find it on Ariana's 2015 EP Christmas & Chill. I got it for Christmas last year. Listen to more songs from Christmas & Chill here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/12/ariana-grande-christmas-songs.html And here's last week festive music vid (Lindsey Stirling's Carol of the Bells:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/12/weekly-music-video_13.html

Back in 2015 I had a Bollywood Boxing Day , now here is K-pop Christmas! These are the K-pop posts from this year. :) First of all these are 2017's K-pop Weekly Music Videos: K.A.R.D- Don't Recall: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/02/weekly-music-video_22.html K.A.R.D- RUMOR:  http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/weekly-music-video.html Ten (NCT/NCT-U)- Dream in a Dream: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/05/weekly-music-video_31.html EXO: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/08/weekly-music-video_16.html MONSTA X- SHINE FOREVER: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/09/weekly-music-video_27.html Kris Wu (former EXO)- Deserve: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/10/weekly-music-video_18.html (Video removed) Jackson Wang ( GOT7 member)- OKAY: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/11/weekly-music-video_29.html I featured two Korean EP releases this year: Chung Ha (former member of now disbanded girl group I.O.I )'s debut EP...

It's less than 2 weeks till Christmas! It always seem far away and then it comes round quickly. (At least for me, lol). Here's a Christmas themed video- Carol of the Bells by Lindsey Stirling . It's from her new Christmas album Winter Warmer which is out now. Some nice dancing in the video as well. :) Lindsey fan? Check out these links: Crystallize: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2014/10/weekly-music-video_93.html Mirage:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/11/weekly-music-video_8.html Also click on the link on her name (above) to see the video for Elements.  

British singer Delilah is back! (I was just wondering recently if she'd have anything out soon). She has a new song called Touch Me which is available for free download from her website.  Visit her Instagram page for download info: https://www.instagram.com/delilahofficial/ It's been ages since Delilah released new music, in fact her debut album From The Roots Up came out in 2012!  She featured on R I T U A L's Too Deep song in October 2015 but I'm not sure if there's been much since then. She's currently working on a new album, so I'm looking forward to hearing that when it's ready. :) For more Delilah check out these links: Breathe music video: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/weeky-music-video.html I Can Feel You RAK session (live performance):  http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/weekly-music-video_27.html Inside My Love video: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/weekly-music-video_19.html   Go vid:  http://stars...

Today's video is Asalaam-e-Ishqum from the Bollywood film Gunday (2014). I featured another video from Gunday at the beginning of the year, you can watch it and read more about the film here:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/01/weekly-music-video.html This is a scene where cabaret dancer Nandita (played by Priyanka Chopra ) is performing. The playback singers are Neha Bhasin and Bappi Lahiri .

Last year I did a post on my Top 10 Christina Aguilera songs . She's one of my favourite singers along with Britney Spears . Now here are my Top 10 Britney songs. :) I've also just realised it's her birthday today, so Happy Birthday Britney! :) 1. ...Baby One More Time Classic Britney! ...Baby One More Time was her debut single which was released in 1998 in the US and early 1999 in the UK (I got it for a birthday present in March). It's one of her most well known and successful singles and is from the debut album of the same name (released in 1999).