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Joji<\/a> has returned with his first new music in three years, the gritty new single \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019.<\/p>\n The Australian-Japanese singer has returned since the release of his last music, 2022 album \u2018SMITHEREENS<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n Now, he shares \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019, a song that appears to be about the frustrations of a long-distance relationship. \u201cPixelated kisses got me goin\u2019 insane \/ Replicate this moment from a million miles away\u201d<\/em>, Joji sings mournfully.<\/p>\n The song also marks Joji\u2019s first release under his own imprint Palace Creek, which is distributed by Virgin Music. He was previously signed under 88rising<\/a> since his debut EP, 2018\u2019s \u2018Tongues Rising\u2019.<\/p>\n Take a listen to \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019 below:<\/p>\n We spoke to 88rising founder Sean Miyashiro about the boundary-breaking record label in 2021<\/a>, where he told us about Marvel choosing him to soundtrack their movie Shang-Chi<\/em> starring Simu Liu.<\/p>\n \u201cThey told us, \u2018You guys are perfect; you have the perfect vision at heart\u2019,\u201d he shared with NME<\/em>. \u201cThey wanted to represent a global Asian youth experience and that\u2019s something I really take pride in. From day one, I wanted to represent a more broad, global mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n Signee NIKI went on to add: \u201cI do think that Asian people have wanted this for a really long time. To see themselves in a Marvel movie, it\u2019s just historic. It\u2019s just empowering to see these people tell the story. To be a part of this historic moment in Western cinema is super gratifying, validating and exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Joji returns with gritty new song \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019<\/a> appeared first on NME<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 channelx94.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joji has returned with his first new music in three years, the gritty new single \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019. The Australian-Japanese singer has returned since the release of his last music, 2022 album \u2018SMITHEREENS\u2018. Now, he shares \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019, a song that appears to be about the frustrations of a long-distance relationship. \u201cPixelated kisses got me goin\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2095846,"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-2095845","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-returns-with-gritty-new-song-\u2018PIXELATED-KISSES.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095845","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=2095845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095847,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095845\/revisions\/2095847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}