Alongside listening to a lot of Natti Natasha, I've also been listening to Thalía a lot too. I first came across Thalía last October when I attended Inna La Londra (Inna's concert in London), where her opening DJ played one of Thalía's songs and everyone was practically singing along and so I used Shazam to find out what song it was. Now, almost a year later, I'm exploring her back catalogue of songs, which is lengthy, to say the least, and she is such a brilliant singer. It's amazing to see one of the top female Latin artists collaborating with Natti Natasha who has soared withing the Latin music world recently. The music video on YouTube has amassed over 1 billion views, which isn't surprising since both stars have massive fanbases, and I can see this continue to gain more and more views. The song itself charted well throughout Latin America as well as peaking at number five in Spain. The track's title, "No Me Acuerdo" translates into English as "I Don't Remember", and it's about having a night out and waking the next day to her lover who tells her that he's been told she cheated on him but she doesn't remember the rest of the night.
The music video takes the story of the song and recreates it. We start off with Thalía waking up in bed at 4pm, with her lover showing something on a phone, an image of her in the arms of another guy. We then get a flashback to her night before as she tries to remember what happens. We see her partying the night away with Natti Natasha and eyeing up another guy who ends up carrying her on his shoulder - which is where the image from the phone comes from. The ending scene sees her love-interest storming out of the room as she looks at the image on the phone. It's such a good music video and it looks like Thalía and Natti Natasha had such a good time filming this music video.
So, today, I've been having a Natti Natasha kind of day and listened to all the songs she has released to date, and there have been some absolute fire tracks that she's released, she's definitely someone we all should be watching as she's quickly become a top female artist in Latin America and I truly believe she'll have a worldwide hit sometime soon, I'm just sad it wasn't this one as I adore this song. This is not a surprise as I am a fan of Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and I need to attend one of their gigs, one day. Their music has been so on-point the last few years, collaborating with some of the biggest names, and this song release is no different as the one and only David Guetta and Latin superstar Daddy Yankee and rising stars Afro Bros all came together on this track along with Natti Natasha whose vocals were completely off the chart. If you haven't heard "Instagram" yet and haven't added it to your party playlists, then you're completely missing out. The song should've been a chart-raging success instead, it did moderately well apart from in the Netherlands where it reached the top 10.
The awesome music video starts off with a guy finding a phone on a beach and the screen is showing Natti Natasha's Instagram profile. Then the music starts and Natti Natasha stuns in every single look, she's on-point, sexy, and beautiful. There's a scene where she's on a yacht, one where she's in a club and the narrative scene which sees her walking down a road where guys in cars offer her a lift, which she turns down until a group of women come along and she hops in. We then hop over to Daddy Yankee, which the women are watching on a live video (perhaps Instagram Live?) where he's on a cliff and bringing it reggaeton style, and we watch others watching his live stream, including David Guetta, who then invites Natti Natasha to a pool party at his place, and all the artists are there too (apart from Afro Bros who appear as a video on a phone screen). This is when the party really gets started and Natti Natasha continues to shine in every way! At the party, someone takes her phone - but she's not bothered - and the phone is passed around and ends up on that beach, creating the full-circle moment of the music video.
Creative concept, brilliantly incorporated with the song itself, and an absolutely addicting track. What more could we all ask for? How did this song not go viral and become a fully-fledged international hit? I will never know.
Chart Mondays are back and we have a brand new number one! I knew Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion was going to reach the top spot here in the UK at some point. Since "WAP" was released, the song and video have gone viral and so it's no surprise that it's reigning at the top of the official UK singles chart. Rap and hip-hop aren't really my thing, but I can appreciate its lyrics at times and there are a few artists in the genre that I actually like and support. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion come in hard for this track and I have to applaud them for how they've made their mark in what is considered to be a male-dominated genre. "WAP" samples Frank Ski's 1993 song "Whores In The House" and contains many sexual innuendos about how they wish to be pleased by men - which makes a change since for decades we've heard male rappers and hip-hop stars sing about women pleasing them, and it's great that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion has flipped the script with this release. To see such a song go viral and chart highly all around the world is a massive feat and has to be applauded.
The accompanying music video, directed by the one and only Colin Tilley, is flat-out incredible. There's so much power in every single scene and it's such a clever concept considering the lyrics. If this was a male song about women pleasing men, you can imagine the visuals - because we've seen it a hundred times before - and so creating a reversal music video would've been the most typical music video and yet it wouldn't have quite the effect (plus we've seen such music videos from other female artists in the past); instead, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion bring confidence, sass, and self-awareness of their bodies and their needs. They bat out the choreography with no problems and continue to be sexy, sultry, and sensual. There's a scene where Kylie Jenner walks down the corridor, and it's such a moment because there's so much self-empowerment in the way she walks that captures all our attention. Normani, Rosalía, Mulatto, Rubi Rose, and Sukihana, all make appearances, mainly as dance scenes, showing their fierceness and self-empowerment.
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion make an incredible and unforgettable statement with this music video and those who criticise the music video for its sexually explicit content need to look at themselves and complain about the hundreds of much-worse music videos by male artists that go back decades upon decades. This is on-point from start to finish and sexually-charged in a good way; it makes quite the statement, and we need more female empowerment in this world, for sure!
This came up on my YouTube recommendations and I thought I'd review it for my blog. The song is completely strong with Mitchell Tenpenny impressing to no-end with his awesome vocals. He has been making waves in the country music industry, with "Drunk Me" becoming his most popular song to date, although I reckon with his voice, he'll have a big hit sometime soon. Once again, YouTube just knows the sort of music and videos I want to watch as I recently went through a break-up (as I explained in my Instagram post and yesterday's review of ÊMIA's "Selfish"), and it still hurts, even though I know it was for the best. Mitchell Tenpenny's "Broken Up" is a fired-up track that is full of so much emotion, that this track just speaks to me on so many levels.
The accompanying music video is absolutely brilliant, they've captured the story of the song in the entirety of the scenes. The opening scene engages the audience from the start making us wonder what happened, and then the narrative unfolds with intercuts of a performance piece from Mitchell Tenpenny that shows off his passion and energy for the song itself. It captures the entire vibe whilst also satisfying people with the cracking of the mirror and the glass panels in the photo frames. I could so watch this again and again!
I came across ÊMIA, real name Anh Le, when I was given the opportunity to premiere her music video for "If You Can't Take The Rain" on CelebMix and I also managed to interview her. That experience turned me into a fan and I've been following her ever since. She dropped this music video a few days ago and also recently released a new single with Imfinenow, titled "Hurt By You", which you should so check out. Her vocals are amazing and she makes addicting music you can't quite get out of your head - we're sure you'll be a fan in no time and you'll be playing her music over and over again. She's got huge star potential and I truly believe she has an incredible future ahead of her.
"Selfish" speaks to me in volumes as I recently been through a break-up (check out my Instagram post about it), and I'm slowly learning to love myself and to be selfish now. The lyrics are so powerful in this, especially "I put you above me and everyone else, The things that I’d do or I didn’t, You were in my decisions" literally describes me in every relationship I've been in but, as plenty of other songs have stated (including JoJo's "Man"), I need someone who will put me first for a change, and right now that's me, not anyone else. Let's all follow in ÊMIA's footsteps and be a bit more selfish.
Once again, she blows me away with her awesome voice and she easily floods the song with much-needed emotion that touches every listener's heart. The music video has been filmed during quarantine and she nailed it! Looking fierce and selfish (in the best way) throughout whilst knocking out the great choreography by Christabelle Tan, ÊMIA is full of confidence and emotional strength. She even edited the video herself, whilst Caroline Lazar shot the visual. Look out for ÊMIA in the coming years and listen to her music because I can't get enough of her songs!
He's back! Bryson Tiller is gearing up to release a brand new album in the coming months, titled Serenity, and it will be his third studio album. Doing what he does best, Bryson Tiller has dropped a unique track that really allows him to shine in every way, "Inhale" is one special song and it has already made an impact with this music video trending on YouTube, which is how I came across it.
Directed by Ro.lexx, the video captures the essence of a relationship in just a few scenes, from the text to the bedroom scene to the looks they give each other when they're sitting outside. It's such a mood as a whole, totally grabbing the attention of the viewers and fully giving them a fly-on-the-wall-experience. As a whole, there's not a whole lot going on, but their ability to convey all in just those few scenes gives us all we need to know. A clever and interesting concept that totally works with the song.
Well, this was a nice surprise to come across for this week's new release music video review. "Midnight Love" by Jindi featuring Smylie is an infectious reggae track that I really haven't been able to get out of my head since the minute I heard it. Jindi truly managed to blow me away with his awesome vocal on this track, whereas Smylie brings the dancehall flavour that adds the extra spice that is needed. This collaboration is something different, fresh, and exciting, giving us a tune we will definitely listen to many times over.
The accompanying music video is really visionary, with a chilled-out opening scene which sees Jindi in Dubai calling Smylie in Harare, Zimbabwe, where the latter invites the former to come and visit. The viewers watch on as Jindi visits Zimbabwe and showcases the beautiful locations and the people that they meet. Some of the scenes are breath-taking, and both artists nail the performance side of things giving us perfect energy that just adds to the song, overall.
ROBBED! Oh yes she was, Manila Luzon was absolutely amazing on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 4 and totally deserved the crown but one slip up meant she ended up in the bottom two and was sent home and I've never been more disappointed - apart from when Shangela didn't make it into the top two during All Stars 3 (which totally explains the ending of this music video)! I adore this song when I first heard it back when Manila Luzon's album Rules! was released. Yet, this music video has just made me love the song, even more, drag queens as animated characters are literally the best thing ever - I loved Netflix's Super Drags and World Of Wonder's DragTots... We need a long-running animated drag queen TV series - someone commission it already!
What's not to like about this? Both Manila Luzon and Latrice Royale are drag queen extraordinaires and how they haven't won RuPaul's Drag Race, yet, I'll never know - I'd so throw in Shangela and Raven into this mix too as they also deserve to win (and Jujubee, although she's currently in the running to win All Stars 5). There is literally so much detail in every single scene that every time I watch this I see something new. Manila Luzon and Latrice Royale look total-fire, and I am living for their looks throughout, and Shangela looks like a star at the end of the video too. I love how Naomi Smalls is the hostage and she's even being gagged with the lipstick that sent home Manila Luzon. I love the small details too such as the car's pedals saying "Shantay" and "Sashay", the smoke bombs saying "All T" and "Shade", the news is called "News 96" instead of "Club 96". It's so amazing and I hope we get to see this drag queen art animation style again, maybe Manila Luzon will do a continued storyline in a new music video? - Oh, how we can only hope. Thank you, Chaos Emporium Inc, for creating this awesome music video!
This popped up on my YouTube recommendations, so I thought I might as well give it a shot, and I'm so glad I did as this is a very heart-warming song with such a massive story behind it. I've never come across Chris Bandi before, and a quick Google search lets me know that he is a rising American country singer who dropped his debut EP this year. He has everything going for him, his brilliant voice, great songs, and incredible music videos - well if this one is anything to go by. This song is a message to his father who has passed away and updating him on his life and his beautiful wife and daughter. It's such an adorable song that touches the hearts of everyone who hears it. His brilliant voice is accompanied by a piano throughout, which can sometimes overpower his vocal but doesn't stop the delivery of the strong message behind the track.
I wasn't sure what I was expecting when I clicked on this but it wasn't this incredibly powerful and moving music video. It's simple but so effective. The main scene sees Chris Bandi performing "Would Have Loved Her" on a piano, outside between two trees, and it's such a beautiful location. Scenes are intercut with a woman and a child who we presume are the wife and daughter he sings about in the song. The ending sees a wooden cross, suggesting he is singing the song to his late father, and it's just perfect. This video accompanies this song beautifully, and I cannot fault it at all.
On Friday, it was announced that Jason Derulo and Jawsh 685 had made it to the top of the UK singles chart with their single "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)", the song of which had become extremely popular on the video streaming app, TikTok. The app has really taken over when it comes to the chart, with many of the songs being used becoming successful. This track has quite a bit of controversial drama surrounding it as Jawsh 685 originally released the track, titled "Laxed (Siren Beat)", instrumentally, which is the track that became popular on TikTok; and, he later reached out to a variety of well-known stars, to remix the track, one of whom was Jason Derulo - who leaked his version in the hopes of being the one to release the official remix. I guess it worked in his favour and, regardless, the song became a hit.
I always forget how incredible Jason Derulo's voice is until he releases a new song, he's such a diverse artist and extremely versatile and it's great to hear him showcasing his vocal prowess on this track. Instrumentally, it's addicting, and it's no surprise that this blew up on TikTok, but Jason Derulo's vocals certainly make the song.
There's not a whole lot going on in the music video, we're in an era where quarantine videos are the norm, and I'm sure there's been plenty of music videos in the past that are absolutely brilliant and still could be done under the same restrictions as we have right now. I was hoping this would've been a lot better, especially since the song was planned to become a success. We just watch Jason Derulo in the studio, singing the song and grooving to the beat. I don't really have a lot to comment on, in some of the scenes he is shirtless, but throughout you can tell how much he likes this song, and that's what really matters... I just wish there was more to this, it really is quite forgettable.
