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It's the end of another year and will soon be a new decade! The past few years I've done Best Of posts rounding up my favourite posts of the year. You can read them below: 2016's Best of:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/12/best-of-2016.html 2017's:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-of-2017.html 2018's: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/12/best-of-2018.html And now on to 2019's! :) Music  As with last year, I did posts with new music for 2019, this time with several genres: New Music for 2019- J-pop: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-music-for-2019-j-pop.html New Music for 2019- K-pop: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-music-for-2019-k-pop.html New Music for 2019- Western: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-music-for-2019-western.html African I featured more African music this year. There was one feature, an Afropop round-up:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/09/afropop-roun...

Happy Boxing Day /Day after Christmas! As I mentioned in the Christmas Songs 2019 post , this week's Weekly Music Video post is on Thursday instead of Wednesday, because yesterday was Christmas Day. :) This week's video is MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, the new song by Korean boyband MONSTA X (also written as Monsta X). It's in English and is from their first English language album ALL ABOUT LUV , set for release next February. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT was released on 6th December. MONSTA X have brought out several other English language singles this year. Check out two below: WHO DO U LOVE? feat. French Montana: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/07/weekly-music-video_31.html Includes SOMEONE'S SOMEONE: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/10/j-pop-and-k-pop-round-up-2019-new-videos.html Want more Korean boyband music? Visit this post: BTS and MONSTA X Videos:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/11/bts-and-monsta-x-videos.html Hope everyone had a good Chr...

It's less than a week till Christmas, so time for my annual Christmas post! Last year I did two which you can read at the links below: Christmas Music: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-music.html Christmas Round-up 2:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-round-up-2.html Today's post features some new songs for Christmas 2019. :) Mabel- Loneliest Time Of Year I featured this new Christmas song from Mabel as this week's Weekly Music Video: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/12/weekly-music-video_18.html BoA feat. Crush- Starry Night Next up is Starry Night, a winter themed love song by popular Korean singer BoA and featuring Crush . It's from BoA's new mini album of the same name which was released on 11th December. The song is in Korean and the video is set in New York at Christmas. Click "Subtitles/closed captions" while watching on YouTube to see English subtitles! :) THEO (Zhu Zhengting)- T...

It's only a week till Christmas! It seems to have come quickly again. So today's video is festive themed. Here is Loneliest Time Of Year by Swedish/British singer Mabel which is about the fact that Christmas can be hard for some people. I know it might seem depressing to some, but it can be hard when we put so much pressure on ourselves for everything to be perfect at Christmas. And there are people who don't have any friends or family at this time of year. So it's an important message. :) Loneliest Time of Year was released on 22nd November and the video came out on 6th December. It's been a big year for Mabel with the release of successful singles Don't Call Me and Mad Love, and her debut album High Expectations coming out in August. Hope she has a great 2020 too! :) For more Mabel visit this post: Upcoming Album Releases- BANKS  and Mabel: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/06/upcoming-album-releases.html P.S. I'm planning to do another ...

I've done several Dance Videos posts this year, so here's one more before the end of 2019! :) Today I'm sharing a variety of videos from different genres. Nicole Scherzinger Dances Her Way Through a Cardio Workout I've had this video saved in my YouTube "To Watch" playlist for ages, so thought I'd share it today! It's from 2017 and features Pussycat Dolls lead singer and solo singer Nicole Scherzinger doing a cardio workout and teaching Emily Oberg , (the host of YouTube series Get Sweaty ) some dance moves. P.S. Did you know The Pussycat Dolls have reformed? (Minus Melody Thornton). They're set to go on tour in 2020. Watch them perform their new song React on The X Factor: Celebrity (UK) here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pussycat-dolls-reunion-x-factor-919995/ Belly Dance Fitness Calorie Burn Shimmy Challenge If you're a belly dancer then you might like to have a go at this shimmy challenge by Leilah Isaac o...

Today's music video is 3AM by New Zealand singer Janine . It's actually an audio and was uploaded to YouTube on 5th December. 3AM is a heartbreak song about now being able to get over your ex, with a chilled vibe. Please note that it contains explicit lyrics. :) Janine fan? Check out these posts: Never The Right Time music video: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekly-music-video_8.html Features songs from her album 99: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/06/current-favourite-songs.html Includes Vacation audio: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/06/new-music-releases.html  

Time for the final C-pop Saturday of the year! I started this feature last year and planned to make it a regular feature. I've done more posts this year than during 2018 (5 including this one, compared to 3) so that's good, lol. I'd like to continue it next year as well. VaVa- Lie First up is Lie by Chinese rapper VaVa , which was released on 17th October. Jane Zhang- Exeed Jane Zhang  has a music video for the song Exeed which I think is also a Chinese TV advert for the EXEED car . Much like Nick Chou and Tia Ray's Lincoln MKC song ! It would be cool if they'd make car ads over here more interesting by making them into music videos, lol. The video came out on 25th October. Jane also released her first English language album Past Progressive in April, under her own label. It includes the singles Dust My Shoulders Off ,Work for It (Remix) and Pull Me Up. Watch the video for  the single Pull Me Up,  which was released in January here: https:/...

This week's video (or audio) is Too Much by American singer Justine Skye . It's from her 4th EP BARE WITH ME which came out in August. Please note that the song is explicit. :) You can also listen MAYBE another song from BARE WITH ME here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/08/weekly-music-video.html And for more music by Justine check out these posts: Collide music video: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/06/weekly-music-video_24.html A Train audio: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/08/weekly-music-video_19.html Don't Think About It video:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/01/weekly-music-video_10.html