The Best Songs of 2023

The following playlist does include a selection of the best songs produced in this year 2023 as I attempt every year.

On this occasion nonetheless, most of the songs are pop ones, and as its name indicated (pop=popular) is the most popular and the one that less controversy does create. 

The Best Songs of 2023

The playlist is truly mesmerizing and besides, you are to watch some special live performances. These artists do have more than one song included:

 Rosalía, Dua Lipa, Annalisa, Rina Sawayama, The Rolling Stones, Sonia Monroy y Shakira: 

THE BEST SONGS OF 2023

TRIKITRI- Sonia Monroy

Houdini - Dua Lipa

Agora Hills -Doja Cat

El Paraíso -Mikel Izal

Who the Hell is Edgar? -Teya/Salena

Either Or -Kid Rock/Dolly Parton

Tokyo Calling- ATARASHII GAKKO

LALA - Mike Towers

Madrid City - Ana Mena

Higher - Sonia Monroy

No Se Ve-Emilia

 Marta, Sebas, Guille y los Demás -Carolina Durante

Bite my Head Off-The Rolling Stones

Flowers -Miley Cyrus

Dance the Night-Dua Lipa

Sombrilla -Mala Rodríguez

Sweet Relief -Madison Beer

Come Through - REN

Comme Des Garcons -Rina Sawayama

Shakira: Bzr Music Sessions, Vol 53 -Shakira, Bizarrap

Nochentera - Vicco

This Hell -Rina Sawayama

El Jefe -Shakira

Angry -The Rolling Stones

Tuya -Rosalía

Los Ángeles -Aitana

Mon Amour -Annalisa

Bellisima -Annalisa

Beso -Rosalía

Escapism -Raye

Vampire -Olivia Rodrigo

Greedy -Tate McRae

THE BEST SONGS OF 2023

Do discover now some impressive live performances of some of the beforementioned songs:

ATARASHII GAKKO!!

ANA MENA

TATE MCRAE

SHAKIRA

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Grace Elizabeth for Michael Kors as she Is Selected the Best Model of 2023

 The spectacular American model Grace Elizabeth has been selected by Michael Kors to star in one of its latest campaigns this fall to introduce the Empire Signature Logo just after being chosen as the best model in the world in this year 2023.

GRACE ELIZABETH MICHAEL KORS

Grace Elizabeth has been awarded the best model of 2023 by Daily Front. The truth is all the fashion campaigns Grace Elizabeth stars are outstanding. In the following video, you can see Grace Elizabeth talking intimately with regards to her fashion career.

GRACE ELIZABETH BEST MODEL IN THE WORLD  2023

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"Greedy" By Tate McRae The Best Pop Song of 2023

 Greedy by Canadian artist Tate McRae is the best pop song of 2023. Watch the following live performances of it to find out why!!!

Greedy Tate McRae

SNL TATE MCRAE GREEDY LIVE

TATE MCRAE GREEDY LIVE

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Brooks Nader 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover

 Sports Illustrated got it again after many years of middling covers. American model Brooks Nader is one of the best Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Covers ever as the following picture proves:

BROOKS NADER 2023 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

Brooks Nader Sports Illustrated

We strongly hope Sports Illustrated keeps its historical way otherwise this American magazine will lose appeal in Europe where this kind of sports magazines abound.

Other international models such as Brooks Nader who could be a perfect cover model for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition could be for instance: Joy Van der Eecken (Belgium), Bianca Balti (Italy), Cindy Bruna (France), Elsa Hosk (Sweden) or Grace Elizabeth (United States of America).

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"Yes, Sir I Can Boogie" By Baccara Anthem of Scottish Football Team

Got used to being ignored if compared to Pross (English team) Scottish national football team has found a particular way to celebrate their wins. 

The song they use is a classic one: Yes, Sir I can boogie particularly well known by foreign audiences all across the world Spain aside even though their authors Baccara is a Spanish duo who in fact have appeared on Eurovision representing other countries as Spain has always been investing in middling artists something even more visible in the last 20 years when even ordinary people were converted in professional artists due to a peculiar reality tv programme  

The Scottish national team will be at the next 2024 Euro Cup and this is the way they sing this famous song at the dressing rooms.

Scottish National Team Perform "Yes, Sir I CAN BOOGIE"

But not only Scottish national team has adapted this hit by Baccara, international artists such as Sophie Ellis-Bextor or The Fratellis has done it likewise

YES, SIR I CAN BOOGIE SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR 

and without going any further, Baccara themselves were invited to perform it at the last annual Etam fashion show in Paris to render it live as you can see now (it is featured at the third position more or less

"YES, SIR I CAN BOOGIE" 2023 ETAM SHOW

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Sydney Sweeney Stars "Angry" ("Hackney Diamonds")

 "This is the best I have ever done" Sydney Sweeney

After having hired horrible personalities such as Kristen Stewart, the Swedish actress of Millennium saga, and above all the Spanish model G de Guindilla to star in recent music videos, The Rolling Stones finally got it right signing American actress Sydney Sweeney to star Angry the first music video of the last album by the Rolling Stones:  Hackney Diamonds

Sydney Sweeney stars Angry 

American actress Sydney Sweeney, worldwide known above all by television series: Euphoria, The handmaid´s tale, Pretty little liars, The White Lotus and likewise for her appearance on the last movie by Quentin Tarantino Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, stars Angry the first official music video of Hackney Diamonds

HACKNEY DIAMONDS, SYDNEY SWEENEY, THE ROLLING STONES

Hackney Diamonds makes reference to those broken glasses from cars and stores when going out throughout Hackney, a London area less recommendable and rich than other London areas this is why these diamonds from Hackney are broken glasses in real terms. 

Sydney Sweeney is formidable in Angry music video albeit the recording does not take place in Hackney but in Los Angeles. 

Angry The Rolling Stones Sydney Sweeney

Behind the Scenes Angry Sydney Sweeney The Rolling Stones

BEHIND THE SCENES ANGRY HACKNEY DIAMONDS

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"Come Thru" R.E.N. Lauren Forge

Lauren Forge is a professional model who has worked for instance for Dolce and Gabanna or Giorgio Armani and now is ready to take the music scene by storm. After impressive music videos such as Fuck me goodbye or HO3 PHASE her last work is Come thru that is truly spectacular and impressive as you can find out now:

 Lauren Forge Come Thru

R. E. N. COME THRU LAUREN FORGE

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The Dark Face Of Karl Lagerfeld Plus His Cat Choupette Introduced By Chanel Muse Luna Bjil

                    "No one wants to see plus size models" Karl Lagerfeld

In a recent The Guardian article one of its writers Tayo Bero (it is supposed that this paper has the best columnists and indeed, The Guardian gives voice to relevant international figures who choose this newspaper to convey his/her opinion and in different spheres not only in politics) attacked the personal opinions that Karl Lagerfeld hid behind his famous fashion shows

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La Oscura Cara De Karl Lagerfeld Su Gata Choupette De La Mano De Luna Bjil

However, we should not judge what a genius tells his dog Evarista privately or on this particular occasion, what a genius like Lagerfeld told his cat Choupette. 

 Indeed, rarely one has ever seen so much support from the same models with whom he was working who still remember him to date passionately and besides do revere.

Just 40 years ago Karl Lagerfeld inherited the control of Chanel from Coco Chanel, from one legend to another one. Even though on this The Guardian article it was denounced Karl Lagerfeld despised the Me Too movement, immigration, fat models and even homosexual marriages we should accept the opinion of Karl Lagerfeld and these private conversations he had with his cat Choupette because what is more Lagerfeld was an artist

CHOUPETTE LUNA BJIL

Whilst his cat Choupette does live she is the heiress of the Lagerfeld empire and she is treated like a queen. Choupette receives daily pampering and she even has an Instagram account with plenty of followers.

There were few models to whom Lagerfeld called Choupettes because he felt a special predilection. One of them is Dutch model Luna Bjil who explains all of this in the next video which is fabulous insofar as this model explains plenty of details like how Lagerfeld laboured. You can discover it right now

Luna Bjil, Choupette, Karl Lagerfeld

Personality begins where comparison ends Karl Lagerfeld to Luna Bjil

LUNA BIJL AND CHOUPETTE

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Blanca Paloma Ready To Apichonar

  "Chicas... enhorabuena... La que ha liado la yaya Carmen y los pichones. La que habéis formado pollitos" Blanca Paloma 

Through this message, Blanca Paloma acknowledged and celebrated her triumph at Benidorm Fest hence becoming the artist who will represent Spain at the next 2023 Eurovision contest in a couple of weeks that takes place in Liverpool, Great Britain. In fact, Blanca La Apichonadora Paloma is more than ready to sweep at this event. 

Blanca Paloma Ready To Apichonar at Eurovisión

Remember how exciting was the moment she discovers her triumph some months ago, Blanca Paloma is unique:

BLANCA PALOMA WINS BENIDORM FEST

This is the official music video Eaea, the song with which Blanca Paloma represents Spain

BLANCA PALOMA "EAEA" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

Will Blanca Paloma win 2023 Eurovision?

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Vicco: New Piano Version of Her Hit "Nochentera"

Things could not be better for Catalan artist Vicco. Even though her song Nochentera will not represent Spain at the 2023 Eurovision contest albeit it is the best-ever song presented to do so, Vicco is making history nevertheless.

                          

Vicco New Version of Nochentera 

In fact, Vicco is to record this Nochentera in English, French, Italian, Catalan and maybe in Russian, German and Japanese insofar as it is overlaid with sheer brilliance. But prior to this, Vicco has recorded a piano version of Nochentera evoking Stevie Wonder as you can discern right now.

 VICCO NOCHENTERA PIANO VERSION

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Anastacia: Historic World Tour in 2023

As British television explained last Sunday (ITV) American artist Anastacia (one of the best voices the music industry has ever seen) will kick off a new world tour  this year 2023 called Resurrection with the following countries confirmed: Russia, Finland, Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

Similarly, Anastacia has the following countries in her mind to play at the end of this year with a final date in the city of Barcelona around Christmas. 

Anastacia plans to visit America after the summer to visit these countries: Canada, the United States of America, Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico. After these countries and if everything goes according to plan Anastacia wants to end this historic tour in the city of Barcelona in December.

                                                  The new and Historic tour of Anastacia

ANASTACIA 2023 RESURRECTION WORLD TOUR

Anastacia is a great artist with an outstanding voice that shines even more live. Take a look at this performance (and perceive her impressive abs as well) where she renders one of her finest songs.

ANASTACIA DIRECTO LEFT OUTSIDE ALONE

In this other live performance, Anastacia sings one of her most famous songs one more time, she does not wear her iconic glasses but she keeps singing in a high tone similarly.

PAID MY DUES LIVE ANASTACIA 

ANASTACIA AND CÉLINE DION PAY HOMAGE TO AC/DC

I do not know if Anastacia will include it in this Resurrection world tour insofar as she sang it with Celine Dion and it belongs to the Australian band with Scottish roots AC/DC but albeit this song has received plenty of covers and homages (another woman, Shakira, rendered a homage to AC/DC as well as she used to play Back in Black live and she should do it again) yet nobody has ever paid homage to AC/DC like these two artists: Anastacia and Celine Dion and the iconic You Shook me all night long 

AC/DC ANASTACIA-CÉLINE DION

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Incredible Performance of Shakira at the Show of Jimmy Fallon

I strongly doubt there has been a performance like this one ever at the Tonight Show (now with Jimmy Fallon) even though this show saw its inception in the year 1954 thereby there has been hitherto other 300 thousand artists presenting new songs but no only Shakira stays near the audience the people are extremely thrilled and went crazy over the performance of Shakira as you can see now:

SHAKIRA LIVE JIMMY FALLON

The audience went so mad it seems the whole act is somehow a setup because what is more, given Shakira has many other hits this single has made history nevertheless beating some world records as Shakira and Argentinian artist Bizarrap explain in this same TV show as you can discover right now 

 Outstanding performance by Shakira at the show of Jimmy Fallon

SHAKIRA INTERVIEW JIMMY FALLON

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Vittoria Ceretti for Ermano Scervino

 Vittoria Ceretti is considered one of the most important supermodels in the whole world (alongside Bianca Balti is the best Italian one probably) and amongst other many campaigns she stars for the best fashion brands (she works regularly for Chanel o Bulgari for instance) Vittoria also has time to labour for other less famous and more modest Italian brands as this campaign she has starred for Ermano Scervino

VITTORIA CERETTI ERMANO SCERVINO

Vittoria Ceretti Ermano Scervino

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Blanca Paloma will Represent Spain with "EAEA" at 2023 Eurovision Contest

Even though my favourite song to represent Spain was Nochentera by Vicco Halcombe does accept the result thereby I will defend and what is more, support Blanca Paloma and her hit EAEA to represent Spain at Eurovision contest 2023 which takes place in Liverpool (North of England, Great Britain) this year.

 However, as the war on Ukraine lingers on and there is not an easy solution it is more than clear Ukraine (the winner last year) will be the strongest country to beat however the quality of its song.  

BLANCA PALOMA "EAEA" REPRESENTS SPAIN AT EUROVISION CONTEST

Blanca Paloma EAEA

This is the performance of Blanca Paloma and her hit, the title is concise but deep, Eaea Check it out.

BLANCA PALOMA "EAEA" SPAIN EUROVISION CONTEST 2023

This is the moment Blanca Paloma finds out she will represent Spain at Eurovision contest. Her happiness is contagious. 

BLANCA PALOMA WINS BENIDORM FEST

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Lily-Rose Depp for Chanel

 Born after the famous Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Depp is likewise one of the muses of the prestigious French House Chanel to which she has starred in advertisements as spectacular as this one that was shot in Los Angeles.

Lily-Rose Depp 

LILY-ROSE DEPP CHANEL

Rosalia: New US Rolling Stone Cover and New Live Version

 Rosalía has started the new year in style insofar as she is on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in the United States as you can discern now:

Rosalia Rolling Stone Magazine

Rolling Stone magazine revolutionized the world of music and music journalism. Born in San Francisco (Northern California) was able to captivate the audience in such a way it became the "Bible of rock and roll music" and indeed, artists fought each other in order to appear on the cover because it was deemed an honour (it still is).

The Rolling Stones, which was one of the best rock and roll bands in the world at that time, sued the magazine because they thought the title was very similar to their name hence illegal. However, both parties reached an agreement which fulfillment still is ongoing.

Rolling Stone magazine opened to other musical genres and in the 1990s, it embraced the world of cinema and other kinds of articles, even political ones. With the Internet kicking off Rolling Stone lost relevance as many other magazines but the real problem it faces nowadays is that the new owner is a close friend of Donald Trump only interested in obtaining money when this magazine was very idealistic in its inception.

In fact, seeing this change in the ownership many of the outstanding writers of Rolling Stone left. For instance, critic Peter Travers who was the movie reviewer of the magazine for decades. 

Anyway, Rolling Stone still is relevant and Rosalía makes history.  As a matter of fact, if you are not from America or a country in the same orbit and you do not sing in English achieving what Rosalía has just done is truly remarkable and complicated.

However, even though the pictures are spectacular I was not impressed with the article published on Rosalía and I believe it is because I live in Spain thereby I got plenty of information about her and the magazine published something bearing the American audience in mind.

Similarly, one of the biggest hits of Rosalía in 2022, Despechá, has a new and brilliant live version that can be discovered right now:

ROSALÍA DESPECHÁ LIVE

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The Best Songs of 2022

I usually end up my writing year with a selection of the best songs as I have done in this 2022 too. Even though I have not selected a great quantity of songs perhaps this time the quality is better than past years.

By the way, there are two pop artists who have more than one song included: Chanel and Ana Mena but as always there is more than pop in the following playlist. What is more, you are to discover the best song of the year at the end of this article which is truly emotive

THE BEST SONGS OF 2022

                                                 Bad Gyal Sin Carné 

            

Llámame WRS

                                           Ana Mena Mezzanotte

Música Ligera-Ana Mena

Despechá-Rosalía

Tissues-Yungblud

Hasta los Dientes-Camila Cabello y María Becerra

 Losing my Religion-Ian Storm John Laurant and Carl Clarks 

 Persuasive-Doechiil

Te Felicito-Shakira

Eazy-Kanye West

Beyoncé-Summer Reinaissance

Quevedo-Quédate

Blackpink-Pink Venom

Stone-Money (hope ain´t gone)

                                            Kim Petras-Treat me like slut

Sam Smith-Unholy

Wet Leg-Wet Dream

Chanel-Toke

Slomo-Chanel

Envolver- Anitta

OY U LUZY CHERNOVA KALYNA