As one of alternative R&B\u2019s most distinct voices, the long wait for newer material has stretched longer than most expected. But \u201cPIXELATED KISSES\u201d feels less like a comeback and more like a quiet reentry to the scene. Photo from Joji<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAs one of alternative R&B\u2019s most distinct voices, the long wait for newer material has stretched longer than most expected. But \u201cPIXELATED KISSES\u201d feels less like a comeback and more like a quiet reentry to the scene, a reminder of how Joji built a career on mood and emotion rather than spectacle.<\/p>\n
Before his emergence as a musician, Joji gained a different kind of fame online \u2014 particularly as a YouTuber through his irreverent alter ego Filthy Frank, which defined internet humor in the early 2010s. As Frank, he created absurdist content ranging from food challenges to lore building of his show\u2019s characters, the most popular among them is Pink Guy. played as himself. Joji\u2019s shift from the realm of the weird to a global R&B mainstay is often cited by fans as one of the internet\u2019s rarest reinventions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source rollingstonephilippines.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese-Australian alternative R&B singer Joji has finally returned with a new single titled \u201cPIXELATED KISSES\u201d on October 14, his first release since his third album SMITHEREENS back in 2022. Entirely written, produced, and recorded by Joji, the song clocks in under two minutes and marks a lean return to his signature vocal style, though the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2090067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Joji-Reclaims-His-Sound-with-New-Single-\u2018PIXEDLATED-KISSES.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090068,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090066\/revisions\/2090068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}