Crystal Kay covers Capital cities. Shits on bitches.

Crystal uploaded a new video to her YouTube channel and declared that she'll begin posting covers. Every time this girl uploads a video to YouTube she says she'll be updating her account frequently and then makes everybody wait 6 months for a new video. But if Crystal really wants those YouTube hits and some free promo to help her future albums stay in the ORICON chart for more than a week, then she will need to keep to her word. We all know how covering songs on YouTube is 'a thing now' which can lead to super-stardom and record deals.

Check out the first of Crystal's 'official' YouTube covers by some band you've probably not heard of.

You don't need to be familiar with the source material to know that Crystal SANG this shit. She entered the studio with nothing but her trilby and a Starbucks frap and left with a bunch of new fans and a crate of wigs.

Beni best watch her shit. Her BFF went in for a hug and pulled away with every strand of her hair. Angela may want to check on her Songbook wig whilst she's at it.

Crystal Kay drops a little MJ tribute acapella on the floor of a studio looking a hot mess and shits on your fave.

It's been 4 years since the undisputed King of pop passed. And thankfully for CK fans, Crystal marked the occasion by uploading a video of herself singing a medley of MJ songs.

If you remember how Crystal squatted over a n***a's fresh pressed weave with her cover of "Human nature" 4 years ago, then you know you need to be checking this. She runs through "P.Y.T", "Off the wall", "Black and white" and doesn't miss a fucking beat with dem vocals.

Crystal may not be able to sell a tenth of what your J-fave is selling, but she can sing them under a Suntory vending machine. It's why I stay loving this woman through thick, thin and all the flops.

Now if home girl could get up off the floor with her Galaxy S3 and finish up that album, I would be very grateful. Fuck a Beyoncé album. It's that CK album I need in my life for 2013.

Crystal Kay puts in work in the US. New English studio album on the way?

For the past month there has been lots of speculation as to what our flop home girl Crystal Kay is up to. Constant Instagrams chronicling her time in the US, trips to the studio with well established songwriters and producers is leading everybody to believe that she is working on an English studio album. And rightly so. Everything seems to be pointing in that direction and it is something Crystal had mentioned a desire to do numerous times in recent interviews.

Sony may have been tight with those album advances, but Universal are cutting those cheques for CK to cash abroad. Thus far, Crystal has cut tracks in the States with...

• Ex Bloodshy & Avant protégé Fredro (Wonder girls' "G.N.O", MiChi's "Find your way", Mýa's "Fabulous life")
• Stargate affiliated songwriter Autumn Rowe (Alexis Jordan's "Happiness")
• Claude Kelly (Brandy's "Camouflage", Britney's "Circus", Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" and half of Christina Aguilera's record breaking flop Bionic)
• Vidal Davis (Ciara's "Oh", Usher's "Caught up", Mary J. Blige "Hurt again", Michael Jackson's "Butterflies")

All very high profile songwriters and producers who have hits in the bag. CK is NOT playing. She wants to see her name on that Billboard chart and remember what it feels like to be in the top 20 of the ORICON chart.

Crystal also recently did a shoot with the hotly in-demand fashion photographer duo Gomillion and Leupold who have shot album covers for Brandy, Jennifer Lopez, Jill Scott, Iggy Azalea, that flop bitch Cassie, that flop bitch Ciara, hot mess ho Ke$ha and wife beating n***a Chris Brown to name a few.

A new album from Crystal Kay is inevitable. Whether the follow up to Vivid truly is an English studio album for global release or just domestic - nobody knows. Crystal has often worked with US and European based song writers and producers for her domestic releases, so perhaps it's just business as usual. But the prospect of Crystal releasing an English language album for worldwide release is exciting, even though it won't sell a damn thing. Crystal still stands a better chance of selling anywhere else other than Japan though. Hikaru Utada and BoA went for the US because they were big in Japan and had a following in the US they felt they could tap into. CK is a flop in Japan and has a following in the US, so she has nothing to lose.

If Universal handle this next studio album correctly, it has the potential to take CK's career to the next level. That level CK should have been on about 5 years ago.

It's great to see that Crystal is staying active and that (as was the case with Vivid) she's broadening her net of musical and visual collaborators. Vivid was so on point, that she could have put that shit on iTunes globally and caught some extra fans and a few hundred downloads. I stay mad that the English version of "Yo yo" was not commissioned as a fully fledged single. If there was ever a song to act as taste for CK's English language material, it was that song right there. And don't even get me started on "I can't wait" and "It's a crime". And then there's the Summer funk / disco crack that is "My heart beat". That right there should have had a video and a version recorded in English. My n***a Nile Rodgers would have loved dat shit.

CK album / single reviews: All yours | Color change! | Flash | Spin the music | Forever | Vivid

Crystal Kay becomes the new face of Crysta Nagahori. Nobody cares.

Crystal Kay has struck some sort of deal with Crysta. It probably is as simple as the company's name being the same as CK's minus the L, as it seems to be such a random partnership for an artist who nobody in Japan could care less about. The fruits of the deal thus far is that Crysta took Crystal around their shopping centre Crysta Nagahori; where she managed to walk in and out of stores undisturbed and free of mobs of fans, because nobody knew who the hell she was - even with her face lining every wall in the vicinity.

I had wandered through Crysta Nagahori when I was in Japan, but had no idea it had its own name and was a dedicated shopping centre (what we Londoners call 'malls'). I thought it was just Shinsaibashi subway station. Ya know; because the sign above the stairs I went down to get there said so. The entire area is plastered with pictures of Crystal Kay. The bitch is EVERYWHERE! At the entrance to the station and all the way through the damn place. It took me a while to notice it was her though, as the photo of her Crysta are using looks as though it was shot and re-touched by the Color change! art directors. #Whitening.

Nagahoribashi (one of the connecting areas to Crysta Nagahori) is full of 'foreigners'. And it's also a popular tourist spot because lots of the bars and clubs in the area are run by and frequented by 'gaijin'. So this partnership between Crysta and Crystal Kay is probably for foreigners more than the locals. Because ain't nobody in Japan know who Crystal is, let alone care about seeing her picture backlit everywhere. Good on CK for the hook-up though. At least she's getting paid and is getting some exposure. Even if it is in an underground shopping centre which is always absolutely dead.

Album reviews: Color change! | All yours | Flash | Spin the music | Vivid