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📅 05.03.20
🎈 Happy 6th anniversary to Zara Larsson’s 3rd studio album, Poster Girl 🎈
“All the Time” not being included. COVID forcing “Love Me Land” to close. “Need Someone” not being a single.
Zara said ‘Ruin my life’ and Sony said ‘We’ll try’.
💿 Album Review: Zara Larsson - Poster Girl
📅 08.03.17
🎈 Today is the 9th anniversary of Koda Kumi’s 13th studio album, W Face 🎈
This was Koda Kumi’s Watashi wa… Sachika Knowles — a double album split between uptempos and midtempos / ballads. And a looks from Beyoncé’s “Formation” video as a bonus.
W Face was the start of Kumi adopting this gangsta girl, hood girl wannabe persona — deciding she wanted to be CL of 2NE1 and the quality of her music nosediving into absolute doo-doo. And she is not showing any sign of even wanting to course correct, which is unfortunate.
💿 Album Review: Koda Kumi - And
📅 02.03.11
🎈 Happy 15th anniversary to Koda Kumi’s 9th studio album, Dejavu 🎈
The album with “Pop Diva” and “Lollipop” aka “I Touch a Booty (Booty)”. Nuff said.
You can feel the lack of direction on this album — both musically and visually, which is probably due to Dejavu following Universe (which doubled as a studio album and a Best album) and Eternity ~Love & Songs~ (Kumi’s first cover album). So Dejavu wound up being both everything and nothing at the same time. And this would unfortunately be something we would see really affect Kumi’s next few albums. But even so, Dejavu has some good songs. “Okay”, “Passing By” and “At the Weekend” are all highlights. And “Pop Diva” is a bit of a mess, but there’s something about it that I just cannot deny.
💿 Album review: Koda Kumi - Deja vu
📅 02.03.05
🎈 Happy 21st anniversary to Crystal Kay’s 5th album, Crystal Style 🎈
Crystal Style is an album in Crystal Kay’s discography that I feel gets overlooked. And it’s understandable as to why. We only got 2 singles from it. And as an album, it is kinda whatever and a bit of a mixed bag. But Crystal would fix the shit out of that with her next 2 albums.
Don’t pass on this album though. “Magic” and “My Everything” are J-R&B gold.
Fun fact. This album features the song “Flowers”, which is a flip of Victoria Beckham’s debut album closer “Every Part of Me”. “Flowers” shares the same melody and arrangements, but different lyrics.
💿 Album Review: Crystal Kay - Crystal Style
📅 28.02.18
🎈 The 8th anniversary of Koda Kumi’s 14th studio album, And 🎈
An album with every popular sound which was rife on American pop radio from 2009–2015.
Okay girl.
It was clear at this point that Kumi’s taste had shifted for the worst, and artistic growth was not a priority.
💿 Album Review: Koda Kumi - And
📅 27.02.13
🎈 Happy 13th anniversary to Koda Kumi’s 2nd cover album, Color the Cover 🎈
I don’t think the single choices and music videos did this album justice. But Color the Cover is a damn good album. One of Kumi’s best.
💿 Album review: Koda Kumi - Color the Cover
Happy birthday to the J-R&B icon that is Crystal Kay.
Be sure to run up her streams and buy some of her CDs from Tower Records — because I know some of y’all are in Tokyo. Every-damn-body is in Tokyo.
📅 22.02.06
🎈 Happy 20th anniversary to Crystal Kay’s 6th studio album, Call Me Miss… 🎈
The album where it all changed for Crystal Kay. “Koi ni Ochitara” being a chart hit. “Kirakuni” being a cult hit, a hood classic and introducing Crystal to an international audience.
Call Me Miss… was my first official intro to Crystal Kay, and was the first CK album I had bought straight off of what was a great first impression.
As a Janet Jackson fan, I was so hyped that the album not only had a Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis production which sounded like Janet, but the entire album had this pristinely produced pop / R&B sound, with a focus on melody, musicality and instrumentation — which felt so reminiscent of Janet, Jam & Lewis. And this felt timely, at a point in music where musicality and the art of classic production was making a comeback — after the millennial digital blips and bloops sound of 2000–2001 and an abundance of songs featuring nothing more than kicks and finger snaps. And on top of all of this, Crystal Kay was a Japanese R&B artist who could ACTUALLY sing!?
I was sold.
Call Me Miss… is largely known as the album that has “Kirakuni”, but it really is so much more. “Kirakuni” might be the song on this album I listen to the least. “Hero”, “Telepathy”, “KTK” and “Together” is where it’s at for me.
A monumental album in Crystal’s discography. Easily one of my favourite CK albums.
💿 Album review: Crystal Kay - Call Me Miss...
📅 18.02.04
🎈 Happy 22nd anniversary to Koda Kumi’s 3rd studio album, Feel My Mind 🎈
Feel My Mind saw a big image shift with Kumi. Kumi’s image became sexier and took clear influence from the girls of US pop at the time — an image of which was not common in Japanese pop music.
I always felt that Christina Aguilera’s Stripped was on Kumi’s moodboard during this period of her career.
💿 Album review: Koda Kumi - Feel My Mind
📅 09.02.05
🎈 Today is the 21st anniversary of Koda Kumi’s 4th studio album, Secret 🎈
Were it not for the classic that is “Hands”, I would forget all about this album.
💿 Album review: Koda Kumi - Secret
📅 08.02.13
🎈 The 13th anniversary of Ayumi Hamasaki’s 14th studio album, Love Again 🎈
When Ayu was in her ‘flop era’ as the Internet kids say.
Love Again wasn’t terrible. But Ayu was doing the same ol’, same ol’, and I think audiences were just tired of it by this point. And it didn’t help that this album released in the wake of Party Queen.
💿 Album review: Ayumi Hamasaki - Love Again
📅 06.02.02
🎈 Happy 24th anniversary to Tommy february6’s self-titled debut album 🎈
I’m spotlighting the music video for the 2nd single “♡Kiss♡ One More Time”, because it’s Black History month in the US, and it’s what Tommy february6 would’ve wanted. Also, “♡Kiss♡ One More Time” is a big choon.
💿 Album Review: Tommy february6 - Tommy february6
📅 04.02.1986
🎈 Happy 40th anniversary to Janet Jackson’s 3rd studio album Control 🎈
The impact this album made and continues to make on pop music around the world!?
Girl.
📅 03.02.2010
🎈 Happy 16th anniversary to Koda Kumi’s 3rd Best album and 8th studio album, Universe 🎈
Because of course Kapitalist Kumi would release a Best album AND studio album together. And it’s kind of a shame. Because the ‘Best’ of it all overshadowed what was a pretty decent album.
💿 Album Review: Koda Kumi - Universe
🎈 Happy 23rd anniversary to BoA’s 2nd Japanese studio album, Valenti 🎈
I’ve always wondered if SM Entertainment had planned for “Valenti” to be a soft launch of BoA in America — given that an English version of it was recorded.
🎈 Happy 17th anniversary to Koda Kumi’s 7th studio album, Trick 🎈
The album with that song with the video where Kumi let us know that she’s down with the LGBTAVEX+.
⏪ Rewind: Koda Kumi - Trick
🎈 Happy 26th anniversary to Namie Amuro’s 4th studio album, Genius 2000 🎈
The album where Namie’s sound began to shift toward R&B. The first of three of Namie’s albums to feature production from Dallas Austin. And the start of Tetsuya Komuro and his fried wig working his notice period.
💿 Album Review: Namie Amuro - Genius 2000