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New Music Releases

Back in January I wrote a couple of posts sharing new music for the new year. You can see them below: 

New Music for 2023- Bollywood/Asian: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-music-for-2023-bollywoodasian.html

New Music for 2023- Various: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-music-for-2023-various.html

Now we're already getting to the end of the first quarter of 2023! So today I'm sharing some more new music. :)


The Weeknd & Ariana Grande- Die For You (Remix)

Canadian singer The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) has released a new remix of his song Die For You, which features American singer Ariana Grande. He and Ariana have worked together several times before, on the songs Love Me Harder (from Ariana's 2014 album My Everything), off the table (from Ariana's 2020 album Positions) and Save Your Tears (from The Weeknd's  album After Hours, which was released in 2021).

Die For You was originally released back in September 2017 and is from The Weeknd's 3rd studio album Starboy (released in 2016). There has also been an unofficial remix with American singer SZA. The Die For You Remix was released on 24th February, with a lyric video uploaded on The Weeknd's channel. A day later Ariana uploaded the official audio on her channel.

It would be cool if Ariana brought out some more new music this year. At the moment she's busy with the two-part film adaptation of the stage show Wicked though. :)

This is the audio on Ariana's channel, where I first came across the song:



And here is the official lyric video from The Weeknd: 

 

 

Watch the official music video for Die For You here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPD0QOGTmMI

And there's also an acapella remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVGRi-NvHZM

 

Adanna Duru- Write On Me 

Next up is Write on Me by Adanna Duru. She is a Nigerian American singer from Orange County in California who rose to fame after appearing on American reality singing shows The Voice and American Idol. She also has over a million followers on TikTok.

Adanna's songs include ur a b*tch (written in lowercase), POP!, Write on Me and Stay featuring Leven Kali. She describes herself as an R'n'B Afrobeat pop artist and just released her debut EP NAPPY HOUR. According to her YouTube bio, this is Part 1, so Part 2 will follow in future.

Write on Me is from NAPPY HOUR and the video was uploaded yesterday (10th March), the same day that the EP was released. As people have mentioned in comments on YouTube, the song has a nice calming/relaxing vibe.



Listen to NAPPY HOUR at the links below: 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3d3YIlB6djFxlcLq8hlYlG

YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHz5KW6QzU5PtG9CLvgWQHUyTwEU4tC_o

 

And for more on Adanna visit these links:

Official FB page: https://www.facebook.com/AdannaDuru/

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AdannaDuru/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adannaduru

 

 

TWICE- SET ME FREE

Finally, K-pop girl group TWICE have just released a brand new single. It's called SET ME FREE and is from their 12th mini album READY TO BE, which came out yesterday (10th March). READY TO BE is the group's 12th Korean language EP.

SET ME FREE was also released yesterday. It is the lead single from the mini album, although it comes after the release of Moonlight Sunrise (TWICE's 2nd English single) in January, which is on READY TO BE as well.

 


There's also a performance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSnlTld85yc

 

Visit my New Music for 2023- Various post to watch the video for Moonlight Sunrise (scroll down): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-music-for-2023-various.html

And listen to READY TO BE here: https://twice.lnk.to/READYTOBE

 

Hope you like the post! :) What are you listening to at the moment? 

 



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