Random J Pop Monthly: July 2021

July 2021

📻 New music & music videos

• Agnes and her Steven Universe gem looking-ass drops a visual for her disco jam "24 Hours"
• Arlo Parks comes for Mr. Kipling and Aunt Bessie with "Too Good"
• Kumi Koda releases her feel good song "We'll Be OK", and we've all heard it before
• MAX release their bop "Do Shot". It's a #ShotGirlSummer y'all.
• Normani drops her "Motivation" follow up "Wild Side", after 84 years
• Omar Apollo drops his lonely-in-the-greenhouse-thanking-'bout-my-boo-thang anthem "Go Away"
• Riri serves up a J-R&B Summer jam with "Luv Dejavu"
• Shinjiro Atae drops "Say My Name", his last single before he peaces out
• Sofia Carson drops "He Loves Me, But...", a song which has no reason being this good
• Syd does lesbian thangs in her "Fast Car" and Prince (probably) approves
• Taeyeon serves a little Doja and Dua with "Weekend"
• Tinashe shows us pussyrobics in "Bouncin"

🗑️ Homophobic and racist fuckery

• DaBaby comes out on stage in a full clown beat and makes ignorant comments on HIV
• People jokingly mistake Naomi Osaka for Crystal Kay, and Crystal is TIRED

💿 Album / Single reviews

• Agnes' 70s / 80s Disco single "24 Hours"
• Crystal Kay's second studio album, 637 -Always & Forever-
• Crystal Kay's third studio album, Almost Seventeen
• Kaze Fuji's cover album, Help Ever Hurt Cover
• Kelis' second Neptunes produced album, Wanderland
• Kiley Dean's unreleased debut album, Simple Girl
• Perfume's Game throwback "Polygon Wave"
• Snoh Aalegra's Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies

🗄️ Other

• Hikaru Utada gets that Shiseido money and teases a new song, "Find Love" 
• Watch the 2021 edition of Hikaru Utada's Live Top Fan Picks before it gets 'archived'

Cover star: Perfume

🎛️ Megamixes

• MeGAMEmix | a GAME megamix
• M3GAMIX | A LEVEL3 megamix
• Cosmix Explorer | a Cosmic Explorer megamix

🤬 Explicit Perfume songs

• The explicit version of "Fake It"
• The explicit version of "1mm"
• The explicit version of "Future Pop"
• The explicit version of "Chorairin"
• The explicit version of "Nananananairo"

💿 Perfume album reviews

• Complete Best
• Game
• Triangle
• JPN
• LEVEL3
• Cosmic Explorer
• Future Pop
• The Best "P Cubed"

💽 Albums reframed

• Revised editions of Perfume's albums

🎧 Playlists

• Perfume Pussy Poppers
• The Rest "P Cubed"

🗄️ Other

• Polygon Vaporwave
• Perfume and the Tokyo 2020 2021 Olympics
• Perfume wishlist vol. 1: 9 things I want from their music
• Perfume wishlist vol. 2: Producers Perfume should work with instead of Nakata Yasutaka

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