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Hope everyone had a good Christmas! Or that you enjoyed another festival if you celebrated one. :) This week's video is Where You Been Hiding by British singer Sinead Harnett . It's the first single from the deluxe version of her latest album Ready is Always Too Late, which came out in May. The deluxe version is due for release early next year.  The video premiered on 3rd December.   Visit this post for the music video for Distraction, my favourite song from Ready is Always Too Late: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/09/weekly-music-video.html   This may be the final post of the year. I'm going to do a Best of 2021 but I'm also working on an end of year post on my spiritual/self-help blog Falling Petals ,  so I might not be able to finish the Best Of before the end of the year.  Thank you for visiting the blog this year. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and good start to 2022! :)

It's only 3 days tills Christmas (!!), so this week's video is Christmas themed again. :)  This is Christmas Eve by Canadian singer Justin Bieber . It's the title track from the new visual album Christmas Eve, which was created in honour of the 10th anniversary of Justin's debut Christmas album Under The Mistletoe.  Christmas Eve is a romantic song about spending the day with the person you love. This is the official lyric video, uploaded on 14th December. Check out the full playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1LVouBkBMY&list=PLsifFPg4DahKxuAQ7JiWSucnx9Q4pl5Ox   And here are a couple of videos of songs from Under The Mistletoe that I've previously posted:  All I Want for Christmas Is You (SuperFestive!), a new version of my favourite singer Mariah Carey's classic song: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2012/12/weekly-music-video_19.html Fa La La with Boyz II Men (posted on Christmas Eve 2014!): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2014/12/weekly-mus

It's a week till Christmas today (seems to have come round quick again!), so this week's post is festive themed. :) Back in 2018 I wrote a post called Christmas Music, featuring previous posts with Christmas videos and sharing some songs not previously posted. You can see that here (heavy on Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande!): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-music.html For 2021 I'm sharing Christmas songs posted in the last 3 years, plus some new ones. :)   Hello! WM- Timing (2018 winter/Christmas collaboration by K-pop groups B1A4, OH MY GIRL and ONF): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/12/weekly-musi-video.html Christmas Songs 2019:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/12/christmas-songs-2019.html Christmas Songs for 2020: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/12/christmas-songs-for-2020.html Mariah Carey feat. Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson- Oh Santa! (2020 remix version):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/12/christmas-is-now-2-days-awa

Today's video is Christmas/winter themed since Christmas is coming and winter "officially" starts next week ! This is snowing in LA by Vietnamese American singer-songwriter thuy. Her full name is Thuy Tran (Thuy is pronounced "Twee" and stylised as thuy). Originally from the Bay Area in California, thuy moved to Los Angeles two years ago. She started her career by releasing the song Hands On Me which won radio station KMEL 106.1's Home Turf contest, back in 2015.  She moved to LA to pursue music full time and released chances (written in lower case) featuring DCMBR this March. Her other singles include universe, in my bag (described as a "bad b*tch anthem!) and  in my head. Her debut EP i hope u see this came out in October, along with the title single. snowing in la is a love song with a relaxed vibe about wanting to be with your partner during the Christmas/holiday season. It was released on 8th December. thuy says that she wanted the video to be

American singer JoJo has uploaded a video of her performing her single Worst (I Assume) live. The song is from her latest album trying not to think about it (written all in lower case).  Worst (I Assume) was released in August. The acoustic live performance video premiered on 8th December. Please note that the song contains some swearing. :)     Watch the Worst (I Assume) music video here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/08/weekly-music-video_26.html And listen to more songs from trying not think about it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/10/new-music-releases-pia-mia-and-jojo.html   Want more live music? Check out these posts: Justine Skye's live performance of We: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/weekly-music-video_30.html   Ariana Grande performing songs from her latest album Positions:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/09/ariana-grande-live-performances.html Jennifer Lopez performing classics such as If You Had My Love, All I Have and I'm

This week's video is Lights Down by Australian singer Celina Sharma , Ghanaian dancehall singer Stonebwoy and British rapper Ivorian Doll . It's the lead single from Celina's debut EP CECE, which came out in October. Read more about CECE here: https://outnowmagazine.com/celina-sharma-cece/ Lights Down is a dancehall and reggae/poppy song. It was released on 15th October. Also check out the video for 24/7, Celina's collab with British singer Harris J , here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIFf9KLqzHw     Visit this post for more on Celina and her 2020 music video CHALO:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/02/weekly-music-video.html Follow Stonebwoy here:  https://www.facebook.com/stonebwoyburniton And keep up with Ivorian Doll here: https://www.ivoriandoll.com/        

We're almost at the end of the year, so I thought I'd share a round-up of dance video posts featured on the blog in 2021! I'm also featuring a couple of new ones today. :)  Dance Videos (features African, Western and K-pop dance): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/02/dance-videos.html Chinese Dance in Public: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/03/chinese-dance-in-public.html Dance Videos (featuring Western, K-pop and Bollywood): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/03/dance-videos.html K-pop in Public- Boys' Edition!: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/05/k-pop-in-public-boys-edition.html V-pop (Vietnamese pop) in Public: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/v-pop-in-public.html Dance Videos (Mostly) Couples' Edition! (K-pop group dance and African, Korean/Western, Bollywood couple dances):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/07/dance-videos.html More K-pop in Public Dances:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/08/more-k-pop-in-public-danc

Today's video is Bansuri from the new Bollywood film Hum Do Hamare Do . It's a comedy about entrepreneur Dhruv (played by Rajkummar Rao ) and social media star Anya ( Kriti Sanon ), who fall in love. Kriti tells Dhruv she only wants to marry a man who has a sweet family and a cute dog. There's one catch- Dhruv is an orphan. He sets out to find some "parents" to make a fake family, enabling him to marry the girl of his dreams! The movie premiered on Disney Hotstar on 29th October, just before Diwali . I've not seen it, but it looks funny. Bansuri was composed by duo Sachin-Jigar and the playback singers are Asees Kaur , IP Singh , Dev Negi and Madhubanti Bagchi . Asees and Dev also sang the new version of Deedar De , from last year's Chhalaang. The video was released on 15th October.      Find the lyrics with an English translation here:  https://lyricsraag.com/translation/bansuri-hum-do-hamare-do-kriti-sanon/ And watch the trailer here (English subtitl