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Today's video is Alone With You, the latest single by American singer Alina Baraz . It's a relaxing R'n'B song with her usual dreamy vibes, great for chilling out to! I especially like the slowed outro part, around 3 minutes in. :)  Alone With You was released on 23rd July. This is the official lyric video, but I'll update as and when there's a music video. :)     Fan of Alina? Check out these posts: Feels Right music video:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/06/weekly-music-video_19.html Includes Trust audio:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/02/new-music-for-2020-part-2.html Post about her debut album It Was Divine: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/04/alina-baraz-debut-album.html    Features I Don't Even Know Why Though: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/more-chillout-songs.html  

We're well into summer now and it's been feeling like it with a mini heatwave in the UK ! Back in June last year I wrote Summer Songs Round-up which shared the previous summer song posts on the blog. You can see that here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/06/summer-songs-round-up.html Since then, I've shared a few more summer themed songs/videos, so here is a round-up of posts from 2020 to 2021. :)    First up here is Asian Songs for Summer which features a variety of J-pop and K-pop songs): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/07/asian-songs-for-summer.html   Jhené Aiko- Summer 2020 Next is Jhené Aiko's Summer 2020. This was released in July last year and was one of my favourite songs of 2020. I loved the chilled, relaxing vibes and featured it as a Weekly Music Video: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/07/weekly-music-video_22.html   Krizbeatz feat. Mr Eazi and Vanessa Mdee- Pamela Pamela by Nigerian record producer DJ Krizbeatz and featuring Mr Eazi a...

Today's video is Got It by Kevin Woo . He is a Korean American singer, formerly a member of Korean boyband U-KISS and is also known as just Kevin. (Not to be confused with Kevin Moon of The Boyz /part of presenting duo Kevin and Jacob !) :) Kevin is from California, but moved to South Korea aged 15 and made his music debut in the boy group XING in late 2006. He later left the group and went onto become a member of U-KISS from 2008 to 2016. After leaving the band, Kevin started a solo career in Japan, debuting in October 2018 with the single Ride Along. It was released in both Japanese and English. He brought out his debut EP Treasure in Japan in October 2019.  He is also releasing music in Korea and America, and his other singles include Freedom, Dreamer, Beautiful Day and Got It.  In addition to singing Kevin has done TV work,  including being a co-host on Arirang's After School Club . Got It is his debut single and was released on 29th June. For more on Kevin visit th...

It's been a while since I've done a new music post, so today I'm sharing new videos by UK singer Mabel and American singer Normani . :)   Mabel-Take It Home First up is Take It Home, the latest single by Mabel. She has teamed up with the video game franchise Pokémon for their 25th anniversary collaboration , and the music video features Pokémon characters Jigglypuff and Pikachu. So cute! :)  Take It Home was released yesterday (16th July). Also check out Mabel's single Let Them Know (released last month): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcRu2xPXHU Normani feat. Cardi B- Wild Side And here is Wild Side, the new single by Normani ( Fifth Harmony member turned solo singer). She has teamed up with rapper Cardi B (their 2nd collab after last year's Diamonds with Megan Thee Stallion ) for the R'n'B song, which samples the late Aaliyah's One In A Million . Wild Side also came out yesterday. It's quite a sexy video! Please note that it contains explici...

This week's video is Stay by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber . The Kid LAROI (real name Charlton Howard) is an Australian rapper and singer. He has Kamilaroi (Indigenous Australian, also know as Gamilaraay) heritage, which inspired his stage name. The Kid LAROI started his career in Australia and released the debut EP 14 With a Dream in August in 2018 (aged 14). His first international hit was the 2019 single Let Her Go. He became friends with the American rapper Juice WRLD (who sadly died in late 2019) and worked with him on the songGo . It became the first single from The KID LAROI's first mixtape F*ck Love, which was released in July 2020. Several singles from F*ck Love have been released. WITHOUT YOU, taken from the deluxe version, F*ck Love (Savage)- released last November- came out in December, and was The Kid LAROI's first No. 1 single in Australia. There is also a remix with American singer Miley Cyrus . The original version was the first song of his that I heard (s...

It's been a while since I did a general dance videos post (the last one was in March ). So today I'm sharing some dances from a variety of genres! I've called it "(Mostly) Couples' Edition! because I just noticed it was predominately two partner dances, lol. :) (KPOP IN PUBLIC) TWICE- 'I CAN'T STOP ME' Dance Cover- The Bluebloods First up some K-pop! This is a dance cover of girl group TWICE's   2020 single I CAN'T STOP ME by The Bluebloods Dance. They are an all-girls dance group based in Sydney, Australia and their specialities include K-pop, Jazzing and Waacking . This is the OT9 version dance cover (I think OT9 means with all 9 members, since Jeongyeon took a break at one point) and the video was posted last November.     Watch the music for I CAN'T STOP ME here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM4CkVFmTds   Follow The Bluebloods at these links: YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBluebloodsDance Instagram:  https://www.instag...

This week's video is a new song by British singer Jessie Ware . It's called 0208 and features Kindness . (Although it is written the other way round in the title, I think that 0208 is the name of the song. Also see the video screenshot.) It's from the re-release of Jessie's 4th album What's Your Pleasure? which came out last year. The new version of the album is called What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) and was released on 11th June. It contains 8 extra tracks (including a remix of Adore You). 0208 is a nice, chilled song. The video is a visualiser.   Visit this post to see the music video for Spotlight, the 3rd single from the original release of What's Your Pleasure?: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/07/weekly-music-video_15.html And view the full playlist from The Platinum Pleasure Edition here:  What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition) YouTube

Time for the next instalment of my semi-regular series C-pop Saturday! The last one was back in April, so here's another selection of Chinese music for your summer. :)   WayV- Action Figure In May I featured the single Action Figure by by WayV (the Chinese sub-unit of Korean boyband NCT ) as a Weekly Music Video. You can see it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/05/weekly-music-video_12.html ØZI feat. 9mm88- B.O Here is B.O by Taiwanese American singer-songwriter, rapper and producer ØZI . His real name/s is Chen Yi Fan (Chinese, written with surname/family name first) and Stefan Chen (English).  His mum is Taiwanese pop star Irene Yeh and his dad Chen Wen-pin was a well-known photographer from the 80s to the mid-200os ØZI was born in Los Angeles and later moved to Taipei, and is fluent in both English and Mandarin. He started taking music classes aged 4 and formed his own rock band at 7! His influences include the rapper Eminem and alternative rock/metal band Lin...