Random J Pop Monthly: January 2023

💿 Music reviews

• Beyoncé’s gay as hell Renaissance
• BoA’s bad bitch EP, Forgive Me
• Sumin & Slom’s K-dance, K-pop, K-R&B album, Miniseries

📺 Music videos

• SM Entertainment release the music video for GOT The Beat’s “Stamp On It”, and I have a headache
• Kelela song “Contact” makes me wanna buss it in front of a Tekken arcade machine

📼 Flashback Friday

• Eternal and that song Monica had a hit with, which nobody knew was a cover
• Kumi Koda’s homegirls do blackface at a shrine
• Junko Ohashi can’t stop the disco
• Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Past<Future flowers

🎛️ Remixes

• Fans remix NewJeans’ “Ditto”

🗄️ Other

• Hikaru Utada celebrates their 40th birthday looking comfy as fuck, with a livestream, some Bad Bunny, new audio technology and a Citi Bike shout-out
• The king of city pop, Tatsuro Yamashita to re-release several of his album on cassette and vinyl in 2023