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It's been a while since I've done a dance post, so today I'm sharing a couple of videos featuring African dances. :)   Eugy- Forever- Afro Dancehall Choreography by Meka Oku and Neika OG First up in an Afro dancehall choreo by Meka Oku and Neika OG. Meka is a Nigerian born dancer who teaches and performs Afro Dance. His dance style is inspired by AfroHouse, hip-hop and dancehall. Neika OG is a dancer from America. Meka and Neika are dancing to the song Forever by Ghanian British singer and rapper Eugy . The video was uploaded in January last year.   Watch the Forever music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJICgJC7syo   Keep up with Meka at his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MekaOku/ And follow Neika OG here:  https://www.youtube.com/c/NiekaOG   A- Z African Dance Moves 2020 I also thought I'd share this video from FireUp Dance which showcases an A-Z of African dance moves. It's from 2020 (uploaded in May) but I think there are still dance...

Today's music video is On Me by Canadian rapper, singer and Kofi. He is from Toronto and started out making music when he was young, supported by his father (who is originally from Ghana). He then released his music online through Jungle Music Group, becoming noticed for the songs Wake up and Came up. In 2018 Kofi brought out his first EP Tripolar, followed by Stoy of My Life in 2020 (now signed to Red Bull Records). His singles include Hold Me Down, the hit song Babygirl, Third degree, Haunt Me featuring 2KBABY and On Me. He released his debut album Why Not? on 20th May. He is also a producer (having taught himself to produce), songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and a former college volleyball player. On Me is an R'n'B/African style song and is a continuation of the story in his previous song Haunt Me . It's about Kofi realising he can really only blame himself for what went wrong in past relationships. It came out in April and is from his new album Why Not?. There is a...

It's been quite a while since I've done a K-pop post, so today I'm sharing some Korean videos (plus one Japanese one!). As with past posts I've called it "New(ish) because some videos are a bit older. :)  D-CRUNCH- Addiction First up is Addiction by boyband D-CRUNCH . They were formed in 2018 and the name is short for "Diamond Crunch, meaning their talent is strong enough to break diamonds.  The group originally consisted of 9 members (6 rappers and 3 vocalists)- leader and main rapper O.V. (real name Kim Sang Chan), main vocalist Hyunwook (full name Ji Hyun Wook), Hyunho (Lee Hyun Ho), Chanyoung (Kim Chan Young), Jungseung (Park Jeong Seung, Dylan (full name Dylan Park/ Park Yeon Jae) and Minhyuk (Kim Min Hyuk), all rappers (although Dylan is also listed as a vocalist on the group's Kprofile, see below for link); and Hyunoh (Park Hyun Oh) and Hyunwoo (Baek Hyun Woo), the other vocalists.* Hyunwoo left in 2020 and last November Minhyuk left and Dylan went ...

This week's video is inhibitions by American singer thuy and featuring rapper P-Lo . (The song title is stylised in lower case, like thuy's name.) It's a laidback R'n'B song which gives me 90s vibes, along with the video! inhibitions was released on 13th April. It seems like a good song to play into the summer. :)    You can also watch the official visualiser/lyric video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqIS31OY0Ls   thuy fan? Check out these posts (I've put the song titles in quotation marks because they're written in lower case): "snowing in la " music video (Christmas seems far away now! lol).: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/12/weekly-music-video_15.html Video for "in my head": https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/02/weekly-music-video.html Features "trippin" audio: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/02/current-favourite-songs.html     And follow P-Lo through his official site: https://p-lo.com/   P.S. Ukr...

The Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest is tonight so here is the 2nd of my annual posts! I also did two "mini countdown" posts this year. You can read them below: Eurovision Countdown- Past Contestant Hadise: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/04/eurovision-countdown-past-contestant.html Eurovision Countdown- ASC Contestant AleXa:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/04/eurovision-countdown-asc-contestant.html Countdown to Eurovision 2022!: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/05/countdown-to-eurovision-2022.html    For the past few years, I've just watched the semi-final that the UK can vote in because it can get boring if you've seen all the acts before the night of the final. And then I watch the acts from the other semi-final that didn't get through online later. This time I watched the 2nd Semi-Final although I did see some of the first one too, similar to last year . So, here are my favourites of 2022! :) Andromache- Ela (Cyprus) Cyprus...

This week's video is Honest by Canadian singer Justin Bieber and featuring American rapper and singer Don Toliver . They previously worked together last year on the song Don't Go, along with record producer Skrillex . Honest is Justin's latest single and came out on 29th April. You also watch the official lyric video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jur26nGiqOY   Want more Justin? Check out these posts for some of his recent collabs: Stay, his 2021 single with Australian singer The Kid LAROI: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/07/weekly-music-video_14.html   Features Don't Go with Skrillex and Don Toliver (2021):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/08/new-music-releases.html Attention with Nigerian singer Omah Lay (released in March):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/03/weekly-music-video_9.html Kehlani's song up at night featuring Justin (April):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/04/weekly-music-video_13.html     And follow ...

It's Eurovision season once again! It seems hard to believe that it's two years since we were in worldwide lockdowns due to the pandemic and 2020's contest was replaced by the virtual event Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light . The 65th Eurovision Song Contest was held in Denmark last year and it was back to normal. The 66th contest will be held in Turin, Italy this year (this upcoming week and next weekend), due to last year's winners being Måneskin with Zitti E Buoni ("Shut up and Behave" in English). The UK's entry is Sam Ryder with SPACE MAN . Read more about Sam and the song here: https://eurovision.tv/participant/sam-ryder-22 We came bottom last year (with zero points!), which was a shame. Poor James Newman! :( To be honest I haven't thought our entries in recent years have been that good. I don't think anyone deserves zero points though, apart from a really bad performance.  I remember that the UK's 2003 entry Cry Baby by Jemini really...

Today's video is LOVE, the new one from Korean boyband MONSTA X . It's a love song (as you can tell by the title!) and is the lead single from their latest EP SHAPE OF LOVE, which came out on 26th April. The EP was originally scheduled for release on 11th April, but was postponed due to the members testing positive for the coronavirus . LOVE was also released on 27th April. Click "Subtitles/closed captions" on YouTube for English subtitles! :) MONSTA X fan? Check out these posts: BTS and MONSTA X Videos:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/11/bts-and-monsta-x-videos.html Post about their 2020 debut English album ALL ABOUT LUV: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/02/monsta-x-debut-english-album.html   Love Killa video (2020): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/11/weekly-music-video.html Features GAMBLER, released in June last year:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/new-k-pop-releases.html Includes KISS OR DEATH, which came out last July: https://sta...