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American singer JoJo just released a new single. It's called Creature of Habit and came out on Thursday (27th May. It's a slow, sultry R'n'B/pop song about not feeling able to leave a settled relationship because it's become a habit despite wanting something different. The music video also premiered on the 27th. JoJo also revealed that she was Black Swan on the American version of The Masked Singer .   For more JoJo check out these posts:   Post about her latest album good to know (deluxe version):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-jojo-deluxe-album.html Features the American Mood music video: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-music-for-2021-part-2.html

Today's video is Where I Belong by American rapper Busta Rhymes and featuring my favourite singer Mariah Carey . It's from Busta's 9th studio album Extinction Level: Event 2: The Wrath of God (The Deluxe Edition) which was released back in October. Extinction Level: Event 2 is a sequel to the 1998 album E.L.E (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front. The music video is actually a follow on to the one from I Know What You Want, Busta's 2003 single with Mariah and Busta's group Flipmode Squad.  It gives me nostalgic vibes! lol. If you want to watch the I Know What You Want video first, you can find it in my Top 10 Mariah Carey Songs post (No. 9):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2013/01/top-10-mariah-carey-songs.html Or watch it directly on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDaNJW_jEBo&t=1s Where I Belong came out in April.      Follow Busta at these links: Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bustarhymes/ YouTube channel:  ...

The Eurovision Song Contest is tonight, so here is the 2nd of my annual posts! You can read the 1st one here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/05/countdown-to-eurovision-2021.html I usually watch the semi-final that the UK can vote in because it can be boring if you've seen all the acts before the night of the final. And then I'll watch the acts from the other semi-final that didn't get through online later. This year I watched the second Semi-Final, although I did see a little bit of the first one.  So here are my favourites! :)    Hurricane- Loco Loco (Serbia) Loco Loco by girl group Hurricane was my favourite entry and the one I voted for. It got through to the Grand Final so you will be seeing it tonight!   Hurricane (also known as Hurricane Girls) were formed in 2017 when members Sanja Vučić, Ivana Nikolić and Ksenija Knežević met on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. They have also had individual success with Sanja having represented Serbia in 20...

This week's video is Deedar De from the 2020 Bollywood film Chhalaang . The movie is a a comedy and stars Rajkummar Rao as Mahinder nicknamed Montu, a physical training instructor/PE teacher at a school who is uninspired by his job. When he meets new computer teacher Neelam aka Neelu ( Nushrat Bharucha ), he falls in love with her and things starts to get complicated. Chhalaang (Leap in English) was released last November during Diwali . Deedar De is a remake of the original song from the 2005 film Dus , sung by Sunidhi Chauhan and Krishna Beura . I like the original and thought it sounded familar when I heard it! The playback singers for the new version are Asees Kaur and Dev Negi .  Watch the video for the original Deedar De here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zF-yRUdEA0   Want more Bollywood? Check out these posts: More from Rajkummar Rao: Music video for Kamariya from  Stree:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/09/weekly-music-video_5.html The Naari Na...

It's Eurovision season again! It's now a year since the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest was cancelled due to the coronavirus . Seems hard to believe it was a year ago! A special event called Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light was held instead. So, this year's contest will be the 65th edition instead of last year's. It will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, since in 2019 Duncan Laurence won for Holland with the song Arcade . The Semi-Finals will be held on Tuesday and Thursday, and the Grand Final next Saturday. James Newman who entered for the UK last year with My Last Breath , will enter for us again, this time with the new song Embers . This sounds like an ok song, I generally prefer dancey ones to ballads (although I like some slow songs. :) In the first of my two annual Eurovision posts (I've done two for the past few years), I'm linking to previous posts and sharing a couple of new songs from past contestants. Next week I will feature some of the song fr...

Today's video is Action Figure by WayV . They are the Chinese sub-unit of the Korean boyband NCT and debuted in early 2019. The group consists of 7 members- leader Kun, Ten, WinWin, Lucas, Hendery, Xiaojun and YangYang. Kun, WinWin and Lucas were already members of NCT. They released their first digital single album The Vision in January 2019. In May 2019 WayV released their first EP Take Off, along with the title track of the same name. They also brought out another EP Take Over the Moon in October that year. A special physical version called Take Over the Moon- The Sequel was released the following March. WayV's singles include Take Off, Love Talk, Kick Back and Action Figure. They released their debut studio album Awaken the World in June last year.  Actin Figure is from WayV's 3rd mini album Kick Back which came out on 26th March. This is the performance video.   For more on WayV visit these links: Kprofile: https://kprofiles.com/wayv-members-profile/ Official YouTube ...

It's been a while since I've done an all J-pop post, so today I'm featuring some Japanese music! :)   Note: Avex videos are blocked from being shown on third party applications. If you click on the videos, you can watch them fine on YouTube. :) FlowBack- Dramatic Lover First up is Dramatic Lover by FlowBack . They are a Japanese boyband formed in 2013/2014. They first auditioned in 2013 and took part in the final audition in 2014. The group consists of 5 members- leader Tatsuki, Masaharu, rapper Judai, Reiji and Mark.  FlowBack debuted in September 2016 with the single Come a Long Way and their first studio album Versus in May 2017. They have released several more singles including Heartbreak, Booyah!, Always, Fireworks and without you; a demo CD and the EP Shake the World. Their latest album is Do Not Hesitate (2019). Dramatic Lover was released in May 2020. It's from Connect, their 2020 collaboration album with fellow boyband Da-ICE . (Or I think so according to Goog...

This week's video is Twisted Fantasy, the latest single by American singer Justine Skye . It features Nigerian singer and rapper Rema . Twisted Fantasy was released on 30th April and is likely to be on Justine's upcoming album Space & Time, due out on 25th June. This is a lyric video but I will update as and when there is a music video. :) I can't believe it's been almost 6 years since I first came across Justine's music! Doesn't seem that long, lol. Please note that the song is explicit. :)  Update 27/5/21: There is now an official music video: Justine fan? 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 Too Much audio:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/12/weekly-music-video.html

Sorry the second post is later this week; I was a bit behind and didn't manage to get it finished. Also, I accidentally deleted it but luckily, I had most of it saved elsewhere! :)   Last year I did my first post featuring K-pop in Public dances (covers of K-pop songs in public places) exclusively. You can see it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/08/k-pop-in-public-dances.html   And here is another post sharing covers of dances by the girl group EVERGLOW: K-pop in Public- EVERGLOW Dances: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/10/k-pop-in-public-everglow-dances.html Since a lot of the dancers and dance teams I've featured are female (I seem to come across all-girl ones more often), I thought today I would have an all boys' edition! I'm sharing several covers of Kai's MMMH, plus a couple of other videos. :)     (KPOP IN PUBLIC) (ONETAKE) MMMH Dance Cover- HIMI x 9BIT x SOULITE( Australia) First up is a collaboration between H I M I . C R E W, 9BIT DA...