Random J Pop | Pop commentary foolishness

Crystal Kay drops her music video for “Only One”. Her first video in a decade with some coin and production value behind it.

Fujii Kaze and his journey-through-Tekken-stages music video for his Pre: Prema song “It’s Alright”

Dis Cover: Madonna - Confessions II

Hikaru Utada is a joyous tax driver in the music video for “Pappa Paradise”. And then I cried.

Perfume’s Nebula Romance tours finally get a physical home release date

U.S. boy band Full Circle Boys release their (fire) single “Bleachers” and I want to know where the other minute and a half of it is

Flashback Friday: Madonna on BET’s 106 & Park | Selling Hard Candy to the negroes

Crystal Kay to release her first new single in over a year — “Only One” featuring Yoonmirae

Madonna circles the block in her leotard, fishnets and Gina pumps for a follow-up to Confessions on a Dance Floor II. And girl... I get it.

Hikaru Utada sings the new theme song for the anime series, Chibi Maruko-chan

Album Review: Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor

Tatsuro Yamashita celebrates the 50th anniversary of his debut album Circus Town, with a music video for the album title track

Kelela puts on a Sephiroth bussdown and releases “idea 1”, as the run-up to album number 3 begins

Perfume to release a documentary in cinemas and have fans crying into their Nebula Romance towels

Koda Kumi announces her second pregnancy. And the North remembers the Rotten Pussy Fluid Gate of 2008.

Charlie Puth and Hikaru Utada join forces for the 2026 realtors anthem, “Home”

Koda Kumi performs covers of Southern All Stars and Bubble Gum Brothers on the Korean variety show, Change Street

Hikaru Utada features in Burberry’s The Trench, Portraits of an Icon campaign. And fashion sites don’t care.

Crystal Kay covers Misora Hibari’s Enka classic “Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni”

Ichiro Yamaguchi shimmies on down with Aoi Yamada in a house of neon for Sakanaction’s “Iranai”

Dis Cover: Jessie Ware - Superbloom

Perfume release their AI looking-ass-but-actually-not-AI video for “Fumetsu no Anata”

Flashback Friday: Crystal Kay - Eternal Memories | Young and grown

The Lambs continue to seek justice for Mariah Carey’s Glitter, as the album is removed from streaming

Toma Ikuta reprises a bunch of his acting roles in the music video for his debut single “Super Romance”

Dis Cover: Angela Aki - Shadow Work

Crystal Kay performs on the Korean variety show Change Street. (I swear, she’s performing everywhere but in Japan).

Hikaru Utada to feature on Charlie Puth’s fourth studio album, Whatever’s Clever!

Perfume Closet pimps the Perfume classic “Chocolate Disco” for its Valentine’s Day collection

Dis Cover: Janet Jackson - Control