{"id":24604,"date":"2026-03-30T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loffmusic.com\/new-pop-that-sounds-like-2026-is-called-fuji-and-turns-autotune-into-psychedelia-in-like\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:15:41","slug":"new-pop-that-sounds-like-2026-is-called-fuji-and-turns-autotune-into-psychedelia-in-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loffmusic.com\/en\/new-pop-that-sounds-like-2026-is-called-fuji-and-turns-autotune-into-psychedelia-in-like\/","title":{"rendered":"New pop that sounds like 2026 is called Fuji? and turns autotune into psychedelia in “Like!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pop is changing – and Fuji? is pushing it forward. <\/p>\n\n

With “Like!”,<\/strong> the artist from Madrid launches one of the most interesting singles of the moment:a mix of italo-disco, extreme autotune and Japanese aesthetics<\/strong> that sounds exactly what it comes from.<\/p>\n\n

It’s not conventional pop.It’s not standard electronica.It’s something else.<\/p>\n\n

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“Like!” is a rare (but impossible to ignore) hit.<\/h2>\n\n

From the first second, “Like!” engages the body:<\/p>\n\n

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  • elastic and physical bass<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • direct groove<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • rhythm that demands movement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

    Here there are clear echoes of Pino D’Angi\u00f2, but the important thing happens above.<\/p>\n\n

    The voice does not seek to sound human.<\/p>\n\n

    It is processed, deformed, pushed to the limit.It becomes texture. In an instrument. In something almost liquid. <\/p>\n\n

    And therein lies the key:Fuji? turns autotune into a new form of psychedelia. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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    Pop bright on the outside, complex on the inside<\/h2>\n\n

    Everything in “Like!” sounds clean. Polished. Precise. <\/p>\n\n

    It is what the artist himself works as high-gloss pop<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n

    a shiny surface, without rough edges, where everything seems simple…but underneath there are layers, details and millimetric decisions.<\/p>\n\n

    It is pop designed.<\/p>\n\n

    But not cold.Quite the contrary.<\/p>\n\n

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    Dancing, laughing and breaking the rules<\/h2>\n\n

    In a scene where many proposals tend to be serious, Fuji? does something different: <\/p>\n\n

    introduces humor without losing sophistication.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

    Your goal is not to impress.It’s something more interesting:<\/p>\n\n

    \ud83d\udc49 make you dance\ud83d\udc49 make you smile\ud83d\udc49 and you don’t know exactly why it works.<\/p>\n\n

    This balance breaks with the dogma of traditional pop and the rigidity of certain electronic music.<\/p>\n\n

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    The sound of a changing scene<\/h2>\n\n

    What Fuji? is doing does not happen in a vacuum. <\/p>\n\n

    He is part of a new generation in Madrid where the emotional, the digital and the experimental coexist.<\/p>\n\n

    In that context, he connects with artists like Rusowsky, but his proposal goes in a very specific direction:<\/p>\n\n

    to take pop into a more liquid, more artificial and freer territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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    Super Sweet and the next step<\/h2>\n\n

    “Like!” is the fourth preview of Super Sweet<\/em>, their new album, which arrives April 17 via Coequipier Records.<\/p>\n\n

    And everything points to it being his most ambitious project:<\/p>\n\n

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    • funk<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • disk<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • R&B<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • hip-hop<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • references to J-pop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

      All mixed without hierarchies.<\/p>\n\n

      No clear limits.<\/p>\n\n

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      A pop that does not want to be eternal<\/h2>\n\n

      There is an idea that runs through everything Fuji does:nothing is permanent.<\/p>\n\n

      His music works as an instant:<\/p>\n\n

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      • see<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • impact<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • disappears<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

        This sensibility connects with the Japanese aesthetics of the ephemeral, but brought to the current digital language.<\/p>\n\n

        A pop that does not seek to last forever.Just capture the perfect moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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        Why you should listen to it now<\/h2>\n\n

        Because it is at that point where everything starts to happen:<\/p>\n\n

        \u2714 different sound\u2714 clear identity\u2714 current proposal\u2714 zero worn formulas<\/p>\n\n

        And because if you’re interested in where pop is going,this matters.<\/p>\n\n

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        Fuji? is not following trends.It is building one. <\/p>\n\n

        And “Like!” is probably one of the first clear clues as to what 2026 is going to sound like.<\/p>\n\n

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