Random J Pop monthly: May 2022

💿 Reviews

• Rina Sawayama’s damned single, “This Hell”

📻 New music & music videos

• UK girl group Flo drop an acoustic version of their debut single “Cardboard Box”
• Hyoyeon’s in too “Deep”, in her solo outing ‘Spider-Woman: No Way Hyo’
• Kenshi Yonezu gets an Ultraman cheque, for his song “M87”
• Ne-Yo gives us a throwback, with “Don’t Love Me”

🎤 Performances

• Kaze Fujii pulls shapes to “Kirari” on his Help Ever Arena Tour
• Rina Sawayama serves kuntry to her new single “This Hell”, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

🗄️ Other

• DJs spin some Hikaru Utada sets at their Tower Records pop-up shop
• Halle releases a snippet of a song, and now the people want it immediately
• Perfume pull out of the 2022 Primavera Sound Festival
• Perfume reveal the title of their 7th studio album, Plasma
• Rina Sawayama is releasing her second studio album Hold the Girl in September, and my wig is dishevelled