Last week I wrote a post featuring Korean girl group BLACKPINK's performance at the recent 2022 MTV Video Music Awards. You can read it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/09/2022-vma-performances-blackpink.html
In this week's follow-up post I'm sharing performances from Jack Harlow, (who was a co-host of the show along with LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj) and Fergie, and Brazilian singer Anitta.
Update 10/9/23: As I said in the BLACKPINK post, they've made the previous year's performance
videos private, which is really annoying! I will update this with what videos I can find.
Jack Harlow feat Fergie- First Class
American rapper and VMA co-host Jack Harlow opened the show by performing his latest single First Class, joined by Fergie, the singer of Glamorous, which First Class samples.
Jack (full name Jackman Thomas Harlow) started out by making mixtapes while still in high school and self-released his first, Extra Credit in June 2011. He went on to release his first EP The Handsome Harlow in November 2015. It was followed by the mixtape 18, after he'd graduated in June 2016. He has released several singles from his mixtapes, but his breakthrough single was WHAT'S POPPIN, released in January 2020. It was very popular on TikTok and also spawned a remix with DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne. It reached No. 2 in the Billboard Charts.
WHAT'S POPPIN was the lead single from Jack's second EP Sweet Action, which came out in March 2020. In December that year he released his debut album That's What All They Say, which also included the original track and remix. To date he has released 3 more mixtapes- Gazebo (2017), Loose (2018) and Confetti (2019).
One of his most successful singles to date is Industry Baby, a collaboration with American singer Lil Nas X. It was released in July last year and appears on Lil Nas X's debut studio album Montero. The song won a VMA for Best Collaboration.
First Class is the second single from Jack's second album Come Home the Kids Miss You, which came out in May. The song, which was released in April, samples the 2007 single Glamorous by Fergie aka Stacy Ferguson (former member of American hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas turned solo singer) and featuring rapper Ludacris. Glamorous one of my favourite songs of hers, so it's cool to see it "revived". :)
I can't quite believe the single is now 15 years old!! It's from Fergie's 2006 debut album The Dutchess, which is a good album that I still listen to.
The performance starts with Jack exiting a plane rapping his song, before introducing Fergie, who then starts singing Glamorous.
Update: I've replaced this with a news video featuring a clip:
But you can view the full performance on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMAs/videos/469806021677792/
Watch the music video for First Class here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBImEeXNZ4
And watch Glamorous here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0SyUgw98tE
For more on Jack visit these links:
Official website: https://www.jackharlow.us/
Official FB: https://www.facebook.com/handsomeharlow
Fergie fan? Check out these posts:
Music video for her hit 2006 single Fergalicious: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/02/weekly-music-video_24.html
Video for M.I.L.F $ (2017): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/06/weekly-music-video_14.html
Anitta- Envolver
Also, Brazilian singer Anitta (real name Larissa de Macedo Machado) made her VMA debut. She performed on the show and became the first Brazilian artist to win a VMA award, coming first in the Best Latin category for her Spanish language single Envolver.
Envolver was the 4th single from Anitta's 5th studio album Versions of Me, which came out in April. The single was released in November last year.
Anitta sings Envolver (which translates as "To Involve" in English), before announcing that she's going to put on as ass-shaking performance!
Update: Here is an animated versioin of Envolver:
And yiou can still watch the actual performance on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=475270441144335
Visit this post for an English translation of Envolver: https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-anitta-envolver-english-translation-lyrics
And visit these posts for more on Anitta:
Video for her 2015 Portuguese single Bang: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/07/weekly-music-video.html
Make It Hot (with Major Lazer): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/01/weeklymusic-video.htmlFeatures her latest single Lobby with Missy Elliot: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/08/new-music-releases.html
Hope you liked the post! :) Are you a live music fan? I don't go to concerts but do enjoy watching live performances on TV.
P.S. It's a weird time here right now since the Queen just died two days ago. Although this is an entertainment blog, I occasionally address current events on here. She had ruled for 70 years and now her son Charles is King, so it's a big shift. RIP.
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