Crystal Kay, Sumire, Tigarah and UKICO cover Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's "Rain On Me" to raise awareness for mental health in Japan

Japanese music artists Crystal Kay, Sumire, Tigarah and UKICO (Yukiko) have come together to form All Four One, a music charity project which hopes to raise money and awareness for mental health in the age of COVID. 

Miss Corona needs no introduction. Her world tour has been going on for almost a year, and given the US, the UK and also the Japanese government being pieces of shit and people just not caring, Miss Corona will absolutely be adding 2021 dates to the tour. Life will not return to any sense of normality until 2022, even with vaccines now making the rounds. 

The All Four One project has released T-shirts through which proceeds will go towards a mental health charity for those in need in Japan, which at the moment is experiencing a new wave of spikes in cases. And to commemorate the launch of the charity, the women also came together to cover Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande's "Rain On Me". 

I'm not gonna dig too much into this song. Other than to say Tigarah must be in the Racoon City police station looking for a key, because she didn't seem to have one with her here. And there was a clear Beyoncé of the group and that was Crystal Kay, who sounded amazing. As she always does.

Crystal Kay had this to say about about the project and what she hopes to achieve.

We felt that throughout this crazy-ass 2020, COVID has really messed with us in every way possible. And in Japan, mental health hasn't really been put to light. It's a huge issue, even [pre] COVID. And we felt that we needed to raise awareness for this issue. And so, we wanted to do something, so we decided to make a video and then we wanted to do a little more, so we decided to make a T-shirt to donate to Inochi-no-denwa (A suicide prevention hotline).

Even before this pandemic [mental health] has been a very big issue in Japan. Culturally people don't really express their personal feelings and emotions. We really wanted to shed light on the fact that it is okay to want to get help. And it's not something to be ashamed of. 

Mental health is a taboo subject in general. But whilst some countries are making steps towards being more open about it and normalising the attendance of therapy, it continues to be taboo in Japan; a country where suicide rates are still some of the highest in the world. And because of the pandemic and workers at Inochi-no-denwa being volunteers, there is even less support available at this time - hence the All Four One project.

Shout-outs to the ladies coming together for this. It's an amazing thing that they're doing and I hope they keep doing it. Japanese publications owe it to the people of Japan to shed some light on the work that All Four One are doing to raise awareness for mental health and making a topic of discussion for the entire country, and something that the government need to start taking a lot more seriously.

📷 Instagram accounts: All Four One | Crystal Kay | Sumire | Tigarah | UKICO

🛒 Store: Buy an All Four One T-Shirt

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Suicide prevention & support hotlines
☎️ UK, Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland

• Samaritans: 116 123
• Lifeline: 0808 808 8000

☎️ US

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
• The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (for the deaf & hard of hearing): 1-800-799-4889
• The Trevor project (geared towards the LGBTQIA+): 1-866-488-7386

☎️ Japan

• Inochi-no-denwa: 03-3264-4343

📒 A full list of suicide prevention and support numbers by country can be found here.