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— by Tanu I. Raj: Kenshi Yonezu sometimes seems like an idea before anything else. So much rests in the weight of his name that it’s almost impossible to escape his orbit. The words “biggest artist in Japan” are often thrown around in his context; the video for his song “Lemon” is the most viewed Japanese music video in history. “Lemon” scored “Song of the Year” on Billboard Japan for two years straight, and if you passed through the virtual vestibules of Japanese music in 2019 (or really, any public place in Japan would have done) you heard his rendition of “Paprika,” part of the 2020 Olympics social campaign…

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