Random J Pop monthly: May 2025

🎤 Performances

• 17 Japanese acts come together for the Music Awards Japan, to honour Yellow Magic Orchestra with “Rydeen Reboot”
• Fujii Kaze performs “Michi Teyu Ku (Overflowing)” at the Music Awards Japan
• Hikaru Utada performs “Electricity” for Music Awards Japan, sporting a brand new wig
• Hikaru Utada performs “First Love” on The First Take
• Hikaru Utada performs “Mine or Yours” on The First Take in “Automatic” yellow
• Janet Jackson performs “Someone to Call My Lover” and “All for You” at the American Music Awards and reminds hoes
• Watch 20 minutes of Fujii Kaze’s Feelin’ Good Tour on YouTube
• Yoasobi perform a PlayStation commercial (and their song “Players”) at Music Awards Japan

🗄️ Other

• Angela Aki is back — with a new single out, a new tour and her first album in 13 years
• Mariah Carey’s elusive “When I Feel It” to FINALLY get an official release on the 20th anniversary edition of The Emancipation of Mimi
• NTT share a behind-the-scenes look of Perfume’s IOWN powered performance of “Nebula Romance” for Expo 2025
• The story of Whitney Houston’s “Heartbreak Hotel”, as told by one of the producers. Featuring Bobby, fallen wigs and bad vocals.
• Zane Lowe interviews Hikaru Utada, in the flesh