Random J Pop Monthly: March 2023

💿 Music review

• Jessie Ware shakes it ‘til the “Pearls” fall off

📺 Music video

• Victoria Monét releases her weed anthem “Smoke”, with an assist from Lucky Daye

🎤 Performance

• Twice hit up The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “Set Me Free”, and are clean like doussy

📼 Flashback Friday

• Mariah Carey’s memoirs of an imperfect VFX budget
• Mariya Takeuchi and the song that became a viral sensation by the YouTube algorithm doing the thing
• Super Junior and the song that redefined them

🎛️ Remixes

• The Random J mashup of Beyoncé’s “America Has a Problem”
• The V. Valentine Edit of Perfume’s “Polygon Wave”

🗄️ Other

• Jessie Ware to release her fifth studio album, That! Feels Good!
• Rina Sawayama’s musical contribution to John Wick: Chapter 4, “Eye For an Eye”
• Superfly to release her 7th studio album, Heat Wave in May. Along with a book. Oh, and she’s going on tour. She busy.