Music by Japan’s Girl Group Aims to Globalize X-Pop – Billboard

Earlier this year– on a cozy day in May, Asian -American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month– a septet of girls combated nerves backstage at Forest Hills Stadium inQueens Just over a year after its main launching, the group XG remained in community for Head in the Clouds, a music event commemorating Asian and Pacific Islander society, creative thinking and art arranged by document tag 88rising. But the job held more comprehensive value: It was the act’s very first global efficiency beyond Japan, and in New York, no much less.

Despite its early-afternoon payment, the arena was loaded– and shouting, “XG! XG! XG!”– when the group took the phase in glitter-emblazoned matches. The cozy welcome made it challenging to think that this was XG’s very first time in New York, and after starting the established with its launching track, “Tippy Toes,” the group’s …