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A subreddit for City Pop, a Japanese style of popular music originating in the 1980s. Members Online As a guy with hardly any vinyl shops in my home country, finding Citypop in the wild is an INSTANT buy!
For example, Seiko Matsuda absolutely dominated the charts during the entire 80s but she is generally overlooked here. So to answer your question, yes city pop is well-known in Japan, but as individual artists instead of a general genre, and the artists that are well-known in Japan are not the same artists that are popular on this subreddit.
Finally, I present to you my most complete city pop music playlist on Spotify, with over 200 popular and hidden gems, after 2 years of compiling I've selected the best of the genre, I invite you to take a look and feel like you're in Japan in the 80's, I hope you have fun and enjoy it! 👏🥳🎉
In other words, City Pop was originally an offshoot or an update of New Music, a term that was already kind of getting old by the early 1980s. For the most part, it was danceable music and no longer included the very 70s-sounding folk/singer-songwriter style that some earlier artists included in the New Music genre subscribed to.
A subreddit for City Pop, a Japanese style of popular music originating in the 1980s. Best album within the city pop genre? Personally, I consider Fuyü-Kükan by Tomoko Aran to be the best city pop album ever. Its sound, its lyrics, those guitars, the timeless production, its atmosphere.
City pop was a fusion of Japanese local style with western genre, before then Japanese songs sounds like ballad. Yamashita Tatsurō is one of the founder of city pop, his early album was western style alike with Japanese lyrics, and was badly reviewed by the public when it first came out, the change and the fusion of style made people thought ...
rocket_brown. •. That's an excellent question, but keep in mind that while most city pop music shares multiple aspects in common (i.e. strong bass lines, soft trumpets, melodic vocal arrangements funky guitars) however City Pop has evolved greatly as a genre between the mid 70's & 80's to incorporate numerous different styles.
r/citypop: A subreddit for City Pop, a Japanese style of popular music originating in the 1980s.
Citypop is a subgenre of pop music from Japan that is largely influenced by American funk, disco and soul music and is now quite popular mainly outside of Japan. If you haven't heard (or think you haven't heard) citypop, your first step should be to listen to Mariya Takeuchi's hit song "Plastic Love". Then you could give a listen to the ...
Obligatory City Pop thread. So I feel like City Pop is a bit underdiscussed on this subreddit, for a genre that's undergoing a revival. For those who don't know, City Pop is a genre that began in the 1970s that's really defined by the target of Urban Japanese people. Despite being the Pop music of the 1980s in Japan, it actually didn't ...