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Time for a New Music Releases post! My last one was in May. You can see it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/05/new-music-releases.html Now we're coming to the end of summer (or winter in the Southern Hemisphere) and starting a new month and season. So here's some new music, including K-pop and R'n'B. :)    KARD- Tell My Momma First up, some K-pop! This is Tell My Momma, the latest single by Korean group KARD . It's from their 7th mini album Where To Now? Part 1 : Yellow Light), which was released on 13th August. Tell My Momma is about reaching the stage in a new relationship where you want to tell your mother about your partner. It's mostly English language with some Korean lyrics (in J.Seph's rap). The music video premiered on the same day as the mini album came out and there's also a lyric video (see below).     Watch the lyric video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DpZD27r_U0   Listen to Where To Now? at these links:  Spotify:...

Today's video is Don't Tell Nobody, the new single by Japanese boy band ONE OR EIGHT . After releasing the pre-debut song KAWASAKI in June, they just made their official debut  with this song. Don't Tell Nobody is a high energy pop/R'B song with hip hop vibes, and mostly English language but with a couple of Japanese lines. It was released on 16th August. Note : Avex videos are blocked from being played on 3rd party sites , but you can view it fine on YouTube. :)     Update 29/8/24: There's also a choreography version. Watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtlQARlops   For more on ONE OR EIGHT and to see the music video for KAWASAKI, visit my recent New(ish) J-pop Music and Dance post: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/08/newish-j-pop-music-and-dance.html

Last month I wrote a K-pop in Public post featuring dance covers of songs by Korean girl group LE SSERAFIM . You can see it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/07/k-pop-in-public-dances-le-sserafim.html There are quite a lot of LE SSERAFIM covers and I wasn't able to fit all the ones I liked into one post. So today I'm sharing some more! :) [KPOP IN PUBLIC LONDON] LE SSERAFIM 'Blue Flame' ONE TAKE Cover- BL00M First up is a dance cover of Blue Flame. It's a song from LE SSERAFIM's debut EP FEARLESS, which was released in May 2022. It also appeared on their debut studio album UNFORGIVEN (as a new 2023 version), which came out in May 2023. The cover is performed by Australian dance cover group BL00M   and was uploaded to YouTube in August 2022. This is a one-take cover (meaning it was filmed all in one go).     Check out my Dance in Public- XG Dances post to see BL00M's cover of SHOOTING STAR by Japanese girl group XG: https://starsparklex.blogspot....

This week's video is One Call by SPINALL , Omah Lay and Tyla . SPINALL 's real name is Oluseye Desmond Sodamola and he is a Nigerian DJ and record producer, formerly known as DJ Spinall. He started his career by working for a local radio station and studying music at the Tenstrings Music Institute, and went on to found record label/management company TheCAPMusic in 2014. He is also signed to Atlantic Records UK and Warner Chappell Music UK. In October 2015 he released his debut studio album My Story: The Album and to date he has brought out 5 more albums- Ten (2016), Dreams (2017), Iyanu (2018), Grace (2020) and TOP BOY (2023). His most successful singles include Gba Gbe E featuring Burna Boy , Oluwa, Nowo featuring Wizkid , Baba featuring Kizz Daniel , Diss Love with Wizkid and Tiwa Savage , and Palazzo featuring Asake . SPINALL was the first Nigerian DJ to perform at several music festivals abroad. His most recent album TOP BOY was released in February. Prior to One Cal...

It's already mid-August and summer is going by fast! Last month I wrote a post called Vibes for Your Summer, which you can see here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/07/vibes-for-your-summer.html And today I'm sharing more summer themed videos to celebrate the season, this time featuring island and beach vibes! :)    First up, you can see a few beach/island themed videos in my Top 10 Summer Songs post (written back in 2016), including Paradise by one of my fave rappers, LL Cool J and featuring Amerie ,  (No. 1 on the list), Rock The Boat by the late Aaliyah (No. 3), Do It Again by Pia Mia and featuring Chris Brown and Tyga (No. 9), and Fifth Harmony's All In My Head (Flex) featuring Fetty Wap (No. 10). See the post here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/08/top-10-summer-songs.html   My 2019 post Songs for Summer featured several songs, including two with videos filmed on islands- Korean girl group TWICE's   2016 Dance The Night Away (where the g...

Today's video is  under the rug by British singer Tyler Lewis . It's from her debut EP wait 'til she gets her heart broken , which was released on 31st July. (The EP title and all song titles are written in lower case.) wait 'til she gets her heart broken contains 6 tracks, including previous singles downtime and fly on the wall (released in February and March respectively). I think that under the rug is the 3rd single. It's a laid back R'n'B song, kind of reminiscent of 00s music! This is the lyric video and was uploaded on 31st July.  There's also an acoustic video (see below).   Watch the acoustic video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKc3B0hWk4 And check out this post to watch the music video for fly on the wall: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/05/weekly-music-video_29.html   Visit this link to listen to wait 'til she gets her heart broken: https://orcd.co/waittilshegetsherheartbroken    And visit Tyler's YouTube channel to se...

Last month I started a post "mini series" called Dance Shows Updates, featuring updates on reality dance shows. The first was about Dance Moms and the recent new TV special Dance Moms: The Reunion. You can read about it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/07/dance-shows-updates-dance-moms-reunion.html In that post I also mentioned that there are a couple of spin-offs  from the TV programme Bring It! , The Dolls and its prequel Dianna , and that's what I'm focusing on today. Bring It! is an American reality show following the dance team Dancing Dolls, who are based in Jackson, Mississippi and their coach Dianna Williams , known as Coach D. The dance style that the students perform is hip hop majorette .  The show premiered in March 2014 and ran for 5 seasons (or series as we also call them in the UK). The last season was shown in March 2018. We saw the first one in the UK (they showed it on Lifetime UK which no longer exists) and I think the second one later....

Today's video is Headrush by Indian girl group W.i.S.H . It's their latest single and was released on 24th July. Headrush is an upbeat pop song with a mix of Hindi and English, all about the "headrush" of being in love. I like the summer vibes of the video!  Click "Subtitles/closed captions" on YouTube for English subtitles! :)    For more music by W.i.S.H visit this post:  Asian Groups- Indian Girl Group: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/04/asian-groups-indian-girl-group.html   And more summer themed music and videos, check out this post:  Vibes for Your Summer!:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/07/vibes-for-your-summer.html

In March I wrote a post sharing some J-pop music and dance videos. You can see it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/03/newish-j-pop-music-and-dance.html Since it's been a while, I thought I'd do another post today. So here's a selection of Japanese music and dance. As with the other post, I've called it ""New(ish)" because some videos are a bit older. :)  [JPOP IN PUBLIC] YOASOBI- IDOL- Dance Cover by Archery Star First up, some J-pop in Public ! This is a dance cover of Idol by Japanese pop duo YOASOBI . The duo is made up of musician and record producer Ayase and singer-songwriter Lilas Ikuta. Idol was released in April 2023. The cover is performed by Australian based dance group Archery Star and was uploaded in March. The dancers are Joy, Irene, TianQi, Rose and Evey.      Watch the music video for Idol here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtdQ81jPUQ   And for another dance by Archery Star, check out this post: Dance in Public Videos- One...