The three teenagers who are Babymetal have 17 million YouTube hits and a new music genre to their name — and they’re just one of a host of Japanese acts about to be unleashed on London, says ...

THEY’RE EVERYWHERE. Japan currently has about 300 aidoru girl pop groups. The biggest is Tokyo-based AKB48 from Akihabara, formed in 2005 with 24 girls.

These are exactly the kind of messages girl groups in 2021 are expected to share, but with TWICE they’re delivered in a tropical club-ready banger rather than something more hard-hitting.