Thoughts on City Pop?
It's for summer.Its high energy pop is fantastic for hot nights. I don't know why.
>>129655132That's a big album
>>129655132coworker music in 2026
>>129655132Sonic adventure 2 music
>>129655216wpop is 2026 coworker music
>>129655203If I were to pull that disc out, would it die?>>129655216>can't understand the lyricsNope, instant coworker barrier
>>129655216Zoomgroids think anything that isn’t carti/yeat style music is coworker tier
>>129655132Beach Boys meets funk/soul musichttps://youtu.be/TPRibSzXwjo?si=b15UQQsRGW0wqFEAhttps://youtu.be/nxtp7pl8ijs?si=NOu3Oc-fh2XYk1fIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQ-tn5OmPQ
>>129655132shitty pop
>>129655216all of my coworkers listen to Drake and Benson Boone and one girl at my work thinks she is niche for listening to Billie Eilish. you are unemployed.
>>129655132based
Tatsuro Yamashita is a BITCH for not having his discography on streaming services. Love his music. Have his Vinyls. Still a bitch.
>>129656237Unfortunate facts, but facts. By his flawless boomer logic, vinyl and CD distributors should also be paying him 100% because they played no part at all in spreading his work to anyone
>>129655216The only time City Pop was actual coworker music was in Bubble era Japan.
>>129655132Shitty Pop?
>>129656237That's a Japan in general problem, they are really bitches about copyright and his discography is a mess of different labels owning different releases.
>>12965513290 percent of it is generic but the good stuff is really good. In this case Tats Yamashita is a genuine genius and this album is brilliant
>>129656658despite the title of the album, he didn't make his music for you gaijin
>>129655132For me it's Tatsuro Yamashita Presents X'mas Songs
>>129656687He worked with a Gaijin on that album. The location of that poster for For You was taken in California. His English ballads were written by a Gaijin
>>129655132It's like 70s and early 80s adult contemporary/soft rock with a subtle hint of Jim Steinman. Pretty good.
>>129656237I get having issues with streaming services, copyright etc. Japan have been really fucking weird with export and copyright for many years, especially considering how they both want to be internationally known as this high end artistic place while hating Korea for overtaking them in global popularity and at the same time hate everyone else and will fight tooth and nail to not export stuff. The biggest thing for me though, as corny as it sounds, is that music is a universal language. Citypop is just another huge example of that. So many people around the world who don't know the words being sung, but people can feel the meaning and like the music.So when you write a song that you release, why is your instinct/mentality "no!!! only this little group of people can listen to my song! It doesn't matter if it 45-50 years later resonates with people all over the world, they can't have it! And I don't want any money for work I did 45-50 years ago again!! (basically free money)"It's such a fucking weird and self destructive mentality regarding the money issues, but I honestly find the "let me hide my music from people" to be genuinely resentful. Great music, but what a fucking cunt.>>129656658Yep. It was borderline impossible to find stuff when I was first getting into Japanese music 25 years ago. I love going to Japan and have friends there etc. but Japanese people and money is a fucking terrible combination. I'm generalising, but they are insanely petty.
>>129656237https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxo5Nl9DrE4
>>129658265Japanese culture is weird like that. They are really autistic about certain things. They are so old-fashioned there.Streaming sucks for artists though, they'll get a minuscule margin of the revenue. That is why artists still tour, even Taylor Swift.
City Pop is basically based on AOLI think Shibuya-kei is more unique and better
>>129658343Yeah streaming sucks and all that, I get it and agree. It just becomes a double whammy when you mix that with the weirder sides of Japanese mentality. Again I'm generalising, but they really do the "want cake and eat it too" a lot there. They want to be this major global force and taken seriously, but then Korea overtakes them and they hate it. But Japan, for better and worse, just cannot stop being "Japanese". The whole "we always did it this way" mentality is both good and bad. They sometimes use it as an excuse for being lazy too.I miss the times when musicians got income selling cd's. They tour more now which is great if you like going to concerts, but ticket prices are so fucking insane now too that I haven't been to a concert in four or five years (and I'm not broke, it's just insane now).I'm rambling now, I just really really REALLY don't like the mentality of withholding music to such an extent, when music is one of the few things that can bring people together regardless of where you are and what language you speak.I used to play, write and produce music a lot and jammed with some other Japanese musicians and songwriters when I was there. It was only two of them who spoke English and I hadn't studied Japanese seriously yet, so pretty much all communication happened through music. It sounds so corny to say, but it really was amazing to experience that every time.
herro shitty pop
>>129658265>Yep. It was borderline impossible to find stuff when I was first getting into Japanese music 25 years ago. I love going to Japan and have friends there etc. but Japanese people and money is a fucking terrible combination. I'm generalising, but they are insanely petty.tatsuro yamashita is literally bargain bin slop in japan youre implication that it's expensive is absurd unless you are intentionally looking for some rare collectors item like add some music to your day (even that has been reissued in recent years)
>>129658777>tatsuro yamashita is literally bargain bin slop in japanlol no it ain't, the bargain bin slop of Japan is Enka and it's latter derivatives. Many City Pop releases were intended for hi-fi buyers with expensive setups and the latest car stereos.
>>129658777Anon if you used your brain just a little, you'd likely and correctly assume that I wasn't old enough or had enough money to travel to Japan and buy music 25 years ago. So finding Japanese music that had been exported to Europe was both difficult and expensive. It was fucking difficult to find stuff here and you only had limited access online too because of copyright being very hardcore with Japanese stuff.
Best city pop
>>129656796Thats because the Japanese dont Celebrate Christmas they just eat KFC with their families and have some sales in some malls. They dont understand it besides Capitalism which is pretty based. They still like it though.
>>129658365City Pop is basically Jazz Fusion but more accessible.>>129658724>>129656634>>129656124Kek, i get the South Park reference xD
Music for white guys that bitch about interracial couples while wanting to breed with a japanese bitch
>>129659479>>129656796Apparently KFC is a big thing in Japan?
>>129660158They like U2COA
>>129655132It's pretty cool.
