Jin Akanishi works on his English language debut with The Stereotypes

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Having departed Johnny's boy booty camp for the more above board legal waters of Warner music group, Jin Akanishi is officially on the path to becoming a worldwide solo star.

Jin has been in the studio with US production team The Stereotypes (Danity Kane "Damaged", Justin Bieber "Somebody to love", Joe "New man", Ne-Yo "Why does she stay") to record his debut album and they've been chronicling the process in a video, in which you can hear a couple of the songs.


Despite his ridiculous level of popularity in Japan and a sell out North American tour under his belt, I don't think Jin will be 'the chosen Asian one' who breaks out with a commercially successful album in the States. If his single "Test drive" with that hot mess Jason Derulo is anything to go by, his team's plan seems to be of that to strip everything unique away about Jin and have him sound and look like everybody else in the top 10. Great plan. Because it did wonders for BoA 2 years ago.