{"id":2095897,"date":"2025-10-16T18:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2095897"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:16:30","slug":"joji-returns-with-gritty-new-song-pixelated-kisses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joji-returns-with-gritty-new-song-pixelated-kisses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joji returns with gritty new song &#8216;PIXELATED KISSES&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/joji?after=YXJyYXljb25uZWN0aW9uOjMzMjEyMDI=\">Joji<\/a> has returned with his first new music in three years, the gritty new single \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian-Japanese singer has returned since the release of his last music, 2022 album \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/joji-announces-november-release-of-new-album-smithereens-3298266\">SMITHEREENS<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he shares \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019, a song that appears to be about the frustrations of a long-distance relationship. <em>\u201cPixelated kisses got me goin\u2019 insane \/ Replicate this moment from a million miles away\u201d<\/em>, Joji sings mournfully.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/brands\/88rising\">88rising<\/a> since his debut EP, 2018\u2019s \u2018Tongues Rising\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to \u2018PIXELATED KISSES\u2019 below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joji - PIXELATED KISSES\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AeO81mfRook?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We spoke to 88rising founder Sean Miyashiro <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/88rising-head-in-the-clouds-shang-chi-legend-of-the-ten-rings-sean-miyashiro-3067463\">about the boundary-breaking record label in 2021<\/a>, where he told us about Marvel choosing him to soundtrack their movie <em>Shang-Chi<\/em> starring Simu Liu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told us, \u2018You guys are perfect; you have the perfect vision at heart\u2019,\u201d he shared with <em>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<p>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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2095898,"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-2095897","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-PIXELATED-KISSES.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095897","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=2095897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095899,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095897\/revisions\/2095899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}