Random J Pop monthly: September 2022

💿 Reviews

• Beni covers a city pop classic, “Fly-Day Chinatown”
• Blackpink’s second EP album, Born Pink
• Kumi Koda’s dating sim ballad, “Wings”
• Mariah Carey’s self-proclaimed and widely-considered magnum opus, Butterfly

📺 Music videos

• Hikaru Utada busses it in front of a shark tank to “Somewhere Near Marseille”
• Inflation and oil prices are through the roof, but Key still got that “Gasoline”
• Joyce Wrice goes Kill Bill on some hoes for “Iced Tea”
• Kaze Fujii dances his way into shit for “Damn”
• Kelela returns from the Phantom Zone, with “Washed Away”
• Paramore returns with the stay-inside-because-the-world-is-trash anthem, “This Is Why”
• Rina Sawayama drops a visual for her rapidly rotating storm system characterised-by a low-pressure centre anthem, “Hurricanes”
• These-muthafuckas-ain’t-stopping-Bree, because she is “That Girl”

🗄️ Other

• Crystal Kay’s cover of BTS’ hit song “Dynamite”
• JoJo covers the Teena Marie classic, “Square Biz” and, umm...
• Ryoko Shinohara and Tetsuya Komuro revive a classic for Street Fighter 6