jakeOct 27, 20204 min readTWICE- Eyes Wide Open reviewTWICE are in something of a metamorphosis. Having taken the torch the legendary Girls Generation lit, they ran with it, reaching new and...
jakeOct 10, 20207 min readIntroducing…hitomihitomi. One name, like Beyoncé. All in lowercase, like an edgy teen. For some reason, when I first discovered JPop, hitomi was the artist...
jakeOct 3, 20207 min readIntroducing...Kumi KodaAhh Kumiko. There really are no words to properly encapsulate this firecracker of a woman. Whilst she didn’t necessarily hit the ground...
jakeSep 26, 20207 min readIntroducing...Namie AmuroNamie Amuro embodies the slogan ‘been there done that and got the t shirt.’ In a career spanning 3 separate decades and 25 years exactly,...
jakeSep 22, 20204 min readEverglow- La Di Da reviewKpop six piece girl group Everglow return with their fourth comeback with the single and video for ‘La Di Da’. Following on from their...
jakeSep 19, 20206 min readIntroducing...Ayumi HamasakiYou know in the Britney episode of Glee, where Kurt gets his knickers in a twist and proclaims ‘Britney Spears IS pop culture!’? That’s...
jakeSep 17, 20203 min readIntroducing my introduction to JPop (and some thoughts I had on it I wanted to share)When people find out I like Japanese pop music I almost always hear the exact same two questions back to back- firstly ‘oh you speak...
jakeAug 25, 20205 min readOur Beloved BoA- A 20 year retrospectiveOften hailed as the undisputed queen of KPop, it feels like BoA has been around longer than the wheel. In an industry that treats its...
jakeJul 25, 20205 min readYUKIKA- Soul Lady reviewYukika arrives with her first full album- Soul Lady. After debuting with the critically acclaimed but commercially underrated single...
jakeJul 14, 20204 min readGFriend 'Apple' review- one of your five a day?There was a time when GFRIEND was one of the top kpop groups, even competing with Nations Girl Group TWICE. Their ‘school girl’ trilogy...
jakeJul 13, 20204 min readSummer Walker- Life On Earth reviewI first heard of Summer Walker on twitter sometime last year, in relation to her now infamous performances on her The First and Last...
jakeJul 11, 20202 min readYukika- Yesterday reviewYukika should be bigger than she is. Or, she should’ve been bigger 5 or so years ago. Either way, her career took many an odd twist and...