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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post sharing some new music releases for 2022. That one focused on Bollywood and you can see it here:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/01/new-music-for-2022-bollywood.html Today I'm featuring some more new songs from a mixture of genres- K-pop, Latin and Western! :) MOMOLAND X NATTI NATASHA- Yummy Yummy Love First up is Yummy Yummy Love, a collaboration between Korean girl group Momoland and Dominican singer Natti Natasha ! I first heard this when Momoland performed it live on Simply K-pop CON TOUR the other week (without Natti though).  Yummy Yummy Love is an English language song and was released on 14th January. Watch the Simply K-pop performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8DfnKMiYyo   For more Momoland check out these posts (both featuring new music for a new year!): Features Bboom Bboom:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-music-for-2018-part-2.html Includes Thumbs Up: https://starsparklex.blogspot...

Today's video is Ça Ira by Cameroonian singer Nabila . Although I'm part Cameroonian, I don't listen to much music from Cameroon. I tend to come across more Nigerian and Ghanaian music , occasionally some East African or South African . So, I thought it would be cool to share a Cameroonian song today. :) Nabila's real name is Fatima Rodriguz and she has a Hispano/Spanish-Moroccan dad and a Cameroonian mum. She is from Bamenda in Northwest Cameroon (where my dad's family is also from!) and i think she's now based in Douala. She made her debut with the single Turn up and was later signed by French record label R.E.G.N .  Her other singles include Sawa Romance with Locko (cover), Tromper featuring Tzy Panchak , Pardon Pars featuring Tenor and Dis Moi. Ça Ira is sung mostly in French (one of the official languages of Cameroon)  and translates as "It Will Be Fine" in English. It was Nabila's debut single with R.E.G.N Records and was released ba...

Time for the first C-pop Saturday of the year! This is a semi-regular feature that I started back in 2018 . The last post was in November, so here is some Chinese music for 2022 (not brand new but a mixture). :) PANTHEPACK- Shanghai Dream First up is Shanghai Dream by PANTHEPACK . They are a Chinese hip hop group founded by Hong Kong rapper and singer Jackson Wang (who is also a member of K-pop group GOT7 ). In addition to Jackson, the other members are Chinese American singer-songwriter Karencici , Taiwanese American rapper/producer J. Sheon and Chinese rapper ICE . PANTHEPACK is managed by TEAM WANG, Jackson's company. They started out by releasing the songs DNA and Transmit last April. Their other singles include Pull Up, Gut Feeling and BUZZ. Shanghai Dream is their latest single and was released on 10th December.  The song is a mixture of English and Chinese lyrics (English subtitles available). This is the official visualiser. For more on PANTHEPACK check out these links: S...

This week's video is Spiral SZN by American singer JoJo . This is a live performance of the song, which is from her latest EP trying not to think about it  (written all in lower case), released back in October. The video was uploaded on 12th January.     Visit my post about trying not to think about it to hear the official audio of Spiral SZN, plus read about the background on the song (also features Pia Mia songs): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/10/new-music-releases-pia-mia-and-jojo.html And check out this post for a live performance of Worst (I Assume), also from trying not to think about it : https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/12/jojo-live-performance.html   P.S. Today is the 1000 post on the blog! It will be 11 years in April since I started Star Sparkle Blog. Thanks for reading everyone. Look forward to doing more posts this year. :) 

It's a brand-new year, so here is some new music to start off 2022! In the past I've done several posts in varying genres. You can read 2021's posts at the links below: New Music for 2021- Part 1: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-music-for-2021-part-1.html New Music for 2021- Part 2: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-music-for-2021-part-2.html     This year I'm starting off with Bollywood. :)   Baliye Re from Jersey First up is Baliye Re from the upcoming Bollywood film Jersey .  It's a remake of the 2019 Tollywood (Telugu language) film of the same name and stars Shahid Kapoor as Arjun Talwar, a former cricketer who restarts his career aged 36, inspired by his son's wish for a cricket jersey . Jersey was set to be released on New Year's Day (31st December) 2021 but has been postponed due to the rise of Omicron cases in India. I don't think a new release date has been announced yet.   The playback singers for Baliye Re are Sac...

Today's video is Livin Easy? by British rapper and singer B Young . It's from his debut album Differences which was released last summer, and is one of my favourite songs of his. Livin Easy? is about how B Young's life has changed since he became famous and how he's worked for his success.  This is the official lyric video which was uploaded back in August.  There's also a live performance which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3-SkLy8xYE   Find more songs from Differences at the links below: Video for Come Alive: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/weekly-music-video_23.html Justin Bieber video:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/08/weekly-music-video_11.html   And check out the music video for R&Drill (B Young's latest release) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP1AYXtTk0k  

Time for the first dance post of the year! Today's one is about Chinese pop. :)  Back in March last year I wrote a post featuring a Chinese dance video. You can see that here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/03/chinese-dance-in-public.html Now here are more C-pop dances! (DANCE IN PUBLIC CHALLENGE) JIMINGYUE  First up is a dance cover by Australian group Play Dance Studio. They are a K-pop cover performance crew from Perth, Western Australia. Play Dance also occasionally cover other genres such as this C-pop dance that I'm sharing today. This is a dance cover of  Jimingyue (also seen it written as Ji Mingyue) by Chinese girl group SING .  It was released in 2017. The cover video is from February last year.    Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49d95ni5J9Y I also shared a newer version of Ji Mingyue in a C-pop Saturday post last year: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/07/c-pop-saturday.html Follow Play Dance Studio at the...

This week's video is На Муве (MOVE) by Korean/Russian model turned singer Yuri Park (or Park Yuri in Korean terms) and featuring DMITRYSFACE. Yuri was born in Uzbekistan and later moved to Russia. According to a Harpers Bazaar article he has Korean, English and Russian heritage. As well as Russian, he speaks English and Korean. He moved to South Korea in 2015 to become a model, joining the model company ESteem Entertainment. Yuri got his start in the music business by appearing in the music video for Free Somebody by f(x) member Luna and after training for 3 years with a Korean music company, he was a contestant on the reality survival show Produce X 101. Yuri debuted in the K-pop duo JXR with Baekjin in December 2019 (now disbanded). He started uploading his solo music videos to YouTube in 2018 and his latest release is FINE. I can't find much info on DMITRYSFACE but I think his real name is Dmitry Leeguy. MOVE is a Russian language song and was released in Novembe...

Happy New Year! I didn't manage to finish this before the end of the year, so it's now the first post of 2022. :)   We've finished 2021 and moved into 2022, so here is my annual round-up of the previous year's posts! :) You can see my posts for previous years at the links 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 2019's:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/12/best-of-2019.html 2020's: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/12/best-of-2020.html   And now here is 2021's! Star Sparkle also celebrated its 10th birthday in April, so thank you for visiting, whether you've followed the blog longer or more recently. :) Music  As I've done for the past few years, I wrote some posts sharing new music for the new year (only 2 posts this year): New Music for 2021- P...