Random J Pop monthly: August 2022

💿 Reviews

• Hikaru Utada switches into Bad Mode
• Kaze Fujii’s second studio album, Love All Serve All
• Lizzo lets hoes know that she special...with Special
• Perfume re-do Cosmic Explorer, with Plasma

📺 Music videos

• Church Girl Sunye gives up Jesus for K-pop, with “Just a Dancer”
• Flo go off and do what the song say, for their video for “Summertime”
• Girls’ Generation make their long-awaited comeback with “Forever 1”, and it’s dusty
• Jessie Ware continues to serve the queer agenda in “Free Yourself”
• K-pop girl group Ive sample a well known disco classic for “After Like”
• Rina Sawayama escapes Creel House in “Hold the Girl”
• Teddy Park and YG phone it in for Blackpink’s “Pink Venom”
• Twice present Ada Wong in the Multwiverse of Madness, with “Talk That Talk”

🎤 Performances

• Hikaru Utada performs “Bad Mode” for the first time on Japanese television
• Perfume give a couple of televised performances of “Spinning World”

🗄️ Other

• Beyoncé introduces the Yoncé Cinematic Universe in the official teaser trailer for “I’m That Girl”
• Beyoncé respectfully reclaims Madonna’s “Vogue”, for The Queens Remix of “Break My Soul”
• Hikaru Utada talks music, doing their own make-up and The Artist’s Son’s doo-doo needs on Songs of Tokyo
• Perfume Live 2021 [Polygon Wave]. Creatively unmatched.
• SM Entertainment FINALLY release the dance practise video for BoA’s “Better”