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Today's video is Origin Beast by Korean/Russian singer Yuri Park . It's a unique English language song with a mix of singing and rapping. The Origin Beast video premiered on 30th June.     Visit this post to see another video of Yuri's, for the Russian language song На Муве (MOVE): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/01/weekly-music-video.html

Sorry the 2nd post is later again this week; I wasn't feeling well yesterday. I hope to get back to the normal posting schedule next week! :)   It's been ages since I've done a new music post, so today I'm sharing a few new releases from various genres. :) BM- STRANGERS This is STRANGERS, the latest solo single by Korean American rapper BM (real name Matthew Kim) who is a member of the K-pop co-ed group KARD . It's his 2nd digital single, taken from the single album of the same name. It's the follow up to his first digital triple single album THE FIRST STATEMENT, which was released in July last year and the stand-alone single Lost in Euphoria (LIE), which came out in January. As well as the title track, the new single album contains the single Bad Intentions. It was released on 9th August. STRANGERS starts with a mellow rap style and then moves into a faster song with a dance beat. This is the visualiser. Listen to Bad Intentions here: https://www.youtube.com/w...

Today's video is Love Goes On and on by American violinist Lindsey Stirling and featuring vocals from Amy Lee , the lead singer of American rock/alternative band Evanescence . It's from Lindsey's 5th album Artemis, which was released in September 2019. Lindsey's music is a variety of styles including electronic, classical, dubstep, hip hop and pop. It's an interesting combination with her music and Amy's vocals. Lindsey has previously worked with Evanescence on the single Hi-Lo in 2018 (from their 2017 album Synthesis). I'm not sure if Love Goes On and On is an official single, but the music video premiered on 12th July.   Want more Lindsey? Check out these posts: Music video for Elements: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2014/05/weekly-music-video_21.html   Crystallize: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2014/10/weekly-music-video_93.html Mirage:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/11/weekly-music-video_8.html   Evanescence fan? Visit these posts:  Sw...

Sorry the 2nd post is later this week; I didn't manage to get it finished yesterday. :)   In June I wrote a post about Asian boy bands, featuring groups from different Asian countries. It ended up being quite long, so I split it into two parts and the second part was posted in July. You can see those posts below: Asian Boy Bands- Part 1: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/06/asian-boy-bands-part-1.html Asian Boy Bands- Part 2: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/07/asian-boy-bands-part-2.html   I had originally intended to feature a Filipino boy band but realised there were more groups I hadn't written about. So today I'm doing a "stand alone" post about a Filipino boy band and a Filipina girl group. :)  SB19 SB19 is a boy band from the Philippines, formed by ShowBT Philippines Corp. in 2018. The Filipino ShowBT is part of the Korean ShowBT group and SB19 are the first all-male Filipino idol group to have K-pop style training . The band consists of 5 memb...

Today's video is TKRKT, the latest single by Kosovar singer Era Istrefi . It's an Albanian and English language song and a mixture of  musical styles including EDM , pop and reggaeton . It's all about a young woman going out to party and have fun with her friends. TKRKT was released in May.  Also, here is BEBE which was released in March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC8hOBTIOqE   Want more Albanian/Kosovan music? Check out these posts: Albanian Music feature (includes music by Era and her older sister Nora who is also a popular singer): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/09/albanian-music.html   Era and Nora Istrefi- Nuk E Di video (2019): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekly-music-video.html Nora Istrefi feat. NRG Band- Ki me lyp me m'pa:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/06/weekly-music-video.html KIDA and Butrint Imeri- AM/PM:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/07/weekly-music-video_20.html

British/Swedish singer Mabel   (full name Mabel McVey) released her second studio album About Last Night... in July (the follow up to her debut High Expectations). The album was created during the pandemic and sees Mabel trying out new sounds (including dance, synth-pop and disco) in addition to the R'n'B she started out with. It's a concept album based around a party . The lead single from About Last Night... is Let Them Know and two others were subsequently released- Good Luck with British DJ Jax Jones and Swedish music duo Galantis , and Overthinking with American rapper and singer 24kGoldn . Here are a couple of live performances from the album.   Let Love Go (Live) First up is a live performance of Let Love Go, a promotional single. It was released in late June. The album and single versions feature American rapper and singer Lil Tecca , but this live Vevo performance is a solo one by Mabel. The video was uploaded on 29th June.      Watch the lyric video f...

This week's video is Begging, the new single by Nigerian singer Yemi Alade . It's about being treated badly in a relationship (at least that's how I interpret it) and is a in a mixture of English, Pidgin and a Nigerian language (may be both Yoruba and Igbo but I'm not sure; she speaks both because her parents are from both ethnic groups). Let me know if you're from Nigeria/know exactly what she's singing in. :) Begging was released in July but a music video just came out today. I think it's a stand-alone single (not part of her latest EP, 2021's Queendoncom). Watch the visualiser (clean version) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Dq_vBT33I For more music by Yemi visit this post: Boyz video (post contains links to other videos): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/08/weekly-music-video.html   African music fan? Check out these posts: Afropop Round-up 2019-2021: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/afropop-round-up-2019-2021.html Ayra Starr- ...

It's been a while since my last C-pop Saturday post, so today I'm sharing a selection of Chinese music! :)    WARps Up Last month I featured Japanese/Chinese boy band WARPs Up's song POWER in my Asian Boy Bands- Part 2 post ( click here for Part 1 ). It's a mostly English song with some Chinese lines). Visit the post here (see under C-pop/J-pop: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/07/asian-boy-bands-part-2.html Or here's a direct link, since the video is blocked from playing on 3rd party applications:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3XsfUQD6ic   Roy Wang & JelloRio- By Now This is By Now by Chinese singer Roy Wang and rapper JelloRio . Roy (also known as Wang Yuan) started out as a member of then teenage boy band TFBoys but he and the other members are just releasing solo music now, as far as I'm aware. Roy made his solo debut with the single Cause of You, which he performed at his 15th birthday concert back in November 2015 and released second singl...

Today's video is BOOM by Korean rapper HUTA . His real name is Lee Minhyuk (or Minhyuk Lee in Western terms) and he is a member of the K-pop boy band BTOB . His first solo single was 2017's Purple Rain featuring singer Cheeze , which was part of BTOB's solo project series Pieces of BTOB. Huta went on to make his solo debut in Japan in July 2018, with the release of the Japanese EP Summer Diary. And the following January he made his solo Korean debut, bringing out the studio album Hutazone. His other singles include YA and Good Night. BOOM is the title track from HUTA's second album. Both song and album were released on 27th June. For more on HUTA visit these links: Kprofile: https://kprofiles.com/huta-btob-profile-facts/ HUTA's official Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/hutazone/ BTOB's official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgB7A457ULlgm5c3948vr-w