Random J Pop Monthly: April 2024

💿 Single review

• BoA’s comeback single “Emptiness”

⏪ Rewind

• Revisiting Ayumi Hamasaki’s ‘Next Level’
• Revisiting Perfume’s first studio album, ‘Game’

🎛️ Mashup

• BoA x BoA - Black Emptiness

📼 Flashback Friday

• Natsume Mito’s “8 Bit Boy”. The blip-bit-bop that flew under the radar.

🗄️ Other

• BoA might be retiring in 2025. Maybe. Possibly. Oh, it was typo? Okay. But, what if...?
• Crystal Kay is back on her Broadway shit, as she’s set to star in ‘Rent’ in Japan
• Hikaru Utada’s body is Ayataka green tea, in a commercial featuring a re-recorded version of their 2001 hit single “Traveling”
• Hikaru Utada, their Science Fiction song “Electricity” and their Madame Web telescope—all star in a TV commercial