Random J Pop Monthly: April 2023

💿 Music reviews

• Capsule keep their fingers on the Metro Pulse
• Crystal Kay’s jazzy EP, Start Again
• Mariya Takeuchi’s classic, the album with “Plastic Love”; Variety

📺 Music videos

• Don’t worry y’all. Caroline Polachek says it’s just “Smoke”.
• Flo release their hot girl anthem “Fly Girl”; with a little help from a fly girl herself, Missy Elliott
• Jessie Ware drops her single “Begin Again”. The pussier sibling of her 2020-shoulda-been-a-hit “Spotlight”.
• Jisoo blooms as she goes solo, with her debut song “Flower”

🎤 Performance

• Durand Bernarr chews up a Tiny Desk. (And that’s on Uncle Bobby).

📼 Flashback Friday

• Ariana Grande. The witch that can sing.
• Janet Jackson was that bitch. Will always be that bitch.
• Ryuichi Sakamoto. Farewell.

🎛️ Remixes

• Beyoncé + Jessie Ware = Virgo’s Grooving in the Spotlight
• Beyoncé’s “Alien Superstar”, with an extra dash of Honey Dijon

🗄️ Other

• Disney releases Halle’s rendition of “Part of Your World” from 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, and now bitches are bald unda di sea
• Perfume announce their first show in London in almost 10 years, Code of Perfume