Superfly to release her 7th studio album, Heat Wave in May. Along with a book. Oh, and she’s going on tour. She busy.

She’s coming y’all. But we knew she was. The roll of singles and promotion ever since “Voice” has been constant and consistent. But I did wonder for a second if we would get a best album, given how there was so much talk of Superfly’s anniversary the entire time singles were dropping, and given that Superfly had switched record labels from Warner to Universal since her last album. But, nope. It’s a brand new studio album.

Superfly’s seventh studio album is titled Heat Wave, and will release on May 24, 2023.

Superfly - Heat Wave | Universal Music

Heatwave will feature 10 tracks, which includes all of the singles released in 2022 (“Farewell”, “Presence”, “Dynamite” and “Voice”) and a newly recorded version of the 2020 single “Together”. And there will be one more single released before the album drops on May 24th, 2023.

Superfly - Documentary | Shinchosha

On April 13th, Shiho will also be releasing Documentary; a book of essays written by the singer herself. Each essay documents aspects of her daily life, as an artist, as a woman and everything in-between. Given the lead times on books and Shiho having had her first child within the last year, I doubt there will be much on her personal experiences of motherhood, but there’s still a chance an essay or two will touch on motherhood in some form.

It’s a really interesting approach to a book which will help fans relate to her. One of the essays is about aging as a woman in the public eye, and another is about how she navigated life in the thick of the pandemic in 2020.

Documentary hearkens back to the days when every artist had an Ameba blog or some section on their official website where they would post pretty regularly. The book will be available to purchase on Amazon, so hopefully there will also be an audiobook version of it available on there too.

Superfly Arena Tour 2023 | 44 Carat

And as if Shiho wasn’t busy enough already, she will also be embarking on a Superfly arena tour, which kicks off in June.

June 17, 2023
Yokohama Arena

June 18, 2023
Yokohama Arena

July 1, 2023
Toki Messe

July 8, 2023
Nagoya International Exhibition Hall

August 11, 2023
Sekisui Heim Super Arena

August 19, 2023
Hiroshima Green Arena

August 26, 2023
Fukuoka Convention Center

August 27, 2023
Fukuoka Convention Center

September 2, 2023
Ehime Prefecture Budokan

September 3, 2023
Ehime Prefecture Budokan

September 23, 2023
Makomanai Sekisui Heim Ice Arena

September 30, 2023
Maruzen Intec Arena Osaka (Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium)

October 1, 2023
Maruzen Intec Arena Osaka (Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium)

🎫 Treat yo’self: Tour and ticket info

There are a couple of huge gaps between dates, and I’m not sure why. Either that’s just how the bookings had to pan out, or there’s other Superfly shit that’s planned during these gaps. Or maybe Shiho said ‘I need these breaks to be with my family’. Regardless, Shiho is booked and has stayed pretty booked for the past couple of years. It’s honestly felt like she’s not stopped. I don’t even know when she had her baby, because she was working the whole entire time and stayed wearing them ponchos.

I’m tired from just writing all of this. Yet this bitch is out here releasing an album, a book and going on tour, not long after having a baby. Some people are just built different. My lazy truly could never.

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