Rising Japanese Pop Star MIREI Shares New Concept Album
Rising Japanese Pop Star MIREI Shares
New Concept Album – Listen HERE
Tokyo Stories Out Now Via Cool Japan Music / The Orchard
August 29, 2025 — Today, Japanese singer‑songwriter MIREI releases concept album, Tokyo Stories via Cool Japan Music / The Orchard.
Written in cafés, transpacific flights, and early morning Zoom sessions, the 14-song set (with a bonus track) plays like a chaptered novella—each song a different street, screen, or secret of the city. It arrives as the most immersive project yet from the genre-blurring rising star.
Viral album opener “UNSENT” ushers in consumate J-pop hooks and raw verses. The track pairs MIREI’s soaring Japanese vocals with blistering English and Chinese verses from rising Mainland rap phenom AK Liu Zhang (AK 刘彰), creating a border‑crossing anthem about the messages we don’t want to send. The single has already inspired millions of fan-made “unsent confession” clips on TikTok and Douyin.
Co-produced by LA based Zak Leever and Brooklyn based sound scaper, DJ Shiftee as well as giving final touch by Tokyo beat-smith Masaaki Saitō, Tokyo Stories stitches vibey electro, grunge hip hop, and sanshin plucks into a seamless, genre-bending ride. Each song feels like a handheld video clip: you can almost see Shibuya’s scramble crossing or taste a conbini espresso at 3 am.
“These songs are my diary pages,” MIREI says. “Tokyo is equal parts beauty,
burnout, danger, and laughter. I want listeners to feel that swirl in real time.”
Tokyo Stories Track List – Stream HERE
UNSENT feat. AK 刘彰 (English Rap Version)
Lolita Bonita
Split Personas
Stressed & Blessed
Tokyo Stories (Perfect Little Life)
Sell Me Your Love
iDol
1998
No Filter
Kawaii
In the Night Time
Touyama
Papa Won’t Preach
Cinderella
Bonus: L.O.L
About MIREI (當山みれい)
Hailed as “Gen Z Japan’s voice of fearless R&B,” Tokyo‑born MIREI broke out with Sony Music Japan hits “願い (Negai),” “Dear My Boo,” and “大嫌い feat. さなり,” racking up more than 100 million streams and two consecutive sold‑out China tours drawing 10,000+ fans across six cities. Currently with 730 million+ global streams and viral hits across Japan and China, MIREI merges fearless social commentary with boundary-blurring pop and is poised to further globalize Japanese pop with the release of Tokyo Stories.
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