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Random J Pop monthly: December 2022 | A year in reviews

My favourite album covers of 2022

The album cover and full tracklist for Ayumi Hamasaki’s 18th studio album, Remember You

Crystal Kay sings a bunch of Disney songs. Bob Iger needs to pick up the phone.

BoA performs four songs and only dances for one of them

Perfume perform with one o’ dem Exile groups, and show ‘em how bad bitches do it

New K-pop girl group NewJeans drop a chill lil’ club jam, “Ditto”

Daichi Miura splashes around in some water with a bunch of guys, in the music video for his Bokura no Yoake theme song “Itsushika”

Perfume perform “Spinning World” on NTV Best Artist. And yes. The outfits are nasty.

Flashback Friday: Crystal Kay featuring Ryuji Imaichi - Very Special | Seasonal sabotage

Super Junior release a music video for their Christmas song “Celebrate”, without a single shot of the whole group

Random J(unk) Mail: 18.12.22 | Re: And we back outside

Kelela resurrects a “LMK” wig for “On the Run”

Rina Sawayama performs “Hold the Girl” on The Graham Norton Show, and gives us a lil’ set prop moment

Flashback Friday: Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) | Remembering a queer classic

Flo releases “Losing You”. And I don't care what y’all say, it’s a Christmas song.

Capsule drop their lil’ 80s vroom vroom jam “Give Me a Ride”

Crystal Kay releases her SLB (Sad Lonely Bitch) anthem “Love Me”

SM Entertainment have Red Velvet and Aespa fill in for Girls’ Generation for “Beautiful Christmas”

Avex release a boring ass video for the 2023 version of Ryoko Shinohara and Tetsuya Komuro’s “Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokoro Zuyosa”, featuring Street Fighter 6

Perfume Closet is back for its 7th collection, with throwbacks to “Spending All My Time” and “Cling Cling”

SZA performs “Blind” and “Shirt” on SNL

Random J(unk) Mail: 4.12.22 | Re: Hush, Hush

Okinawa to once again host the We Heart Namie fireworks festival for their queen

Perfume’s Plasma tour performance of “Flow” (+ Prfm news on other shit)

Random J Pop monthly: November 2022

BoA rocks out with “Forgive Me”

Random J(unk) Mail: 27.11.21 | Re: My wig’s gonna live forever

Ayumi Hamasaki releases her music video for “Mask”. *This video is sponsored by Squarespace and TeamLab.

Album Review: Taylor Swift - Midnights

Random J(unk) Mail: 20.11.22 | Re: All I want for Christmas is for Tetsuya Komuro to hang up that wig

Album Cut: Beyoncé - Smash Into You | The Beyoncé ballad which is paid dust, because of fucking “Halo”

Kelela to send us into Valentine’s Day bald and with our shell suits sweated out, with the release of her second studio album, Raven

Single Review: Crystal Kay & VivaOla - No Pressure

Kumi Koda to release an EP ‘Wings’ in January 2023, and treat one of her concerts like some side bitch

Perfume release the lyric video for their titty song, “Hate na Bito”

Black Japanese singer Aisha gives us Summer vibes in November, with “I Believe”