Random J Pop monthly: October 2025

💿 Album reviews

• Crystal Kay’s Best album, All Time Best 25th Anniversary
• Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl

📺 Music videos

• Fujii Kaze gives us drag, gays and Janet Jackson in his music video for “I Need U Back”
• Hwasa drops her 80s breakup bop, “Good Goodbye”
• Kenshi Yonezu releases “1991” — the theme song for the live-action adaptation of 5 Centimeters per Second
• Toshinobu Kubota drops a lickle bussdown jam, with “1, 2, Play”
• TVXQ’s U-Know goes it solo for “Body Language”. Zero connection to Kylie Minogue.

🎤 Performances

• Crystal Kay covers Janet Jackson’s “I Get Lonely” on her CK25 Tour
• Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami deliver their first live performance of the KPop Demon Hunters number 1 hit “Golden”
• Fujii Kaze’s performs “Prema” on Music Station. His first ever performance on Music Station. Crazy.

🗄️ Other

• Nintendo to release the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild soundtrack on vinyl — for collectors and the bitches with the record players