In Japan, "City Pop" is considered old outdated corny manufactured ass music your grandpa listens toThey are confused as to why outsiders even listen to itIt would be like Chinese tourists in New York City going into an underground punk record store and ask: "Hey do you have Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life? it's the biggest American song from the 70s we love her back in China ... no? Okay what about Disco Duck? any Kenny Rogers?"Nobody would take this person seriously and would think their music taste is shit
>>129667188Its jazzy so its good
who give a shit what the japs think theyre fucking mental>Nobody would take this person seriously and would think their music taste is shitrevealing that OP defaults to thinking about music in a performative way, dictated by what he believes others will think of his "taste"what a wankerI dont even like city pop lol
>>129667340there are objective shit tastes, "city pop" is objectively shit and if you like said shit it means you have a shit taste and should absolutely be ridiculed about it
Don't care. Still gonna blast Tatsuro Yamashita all springtime long.
How do they think we feel when they scream like little girls for Cheap Trick when they should have been blasting Motorhead?
>>129667188it's just good pop music, like ABBA, Neil Diamond or Carly Simon. Nothing wrong with that.even if it's someone grandma's favorite, it doesn't automatically make it bad.And western listeners of city pop know that it's very accessible, "commercial" stuff, I don't think anyone would view it as some kind of obscure music.
WE HAVE NO SHITTY POP HERE
>>129667898holy based! !!!!!!!!!!
>>129667188Japs when you'd rather buy a jazz CD instead of an underage girl's worn anime character panties from the vending machine outside the store
>>129667188your comparison is really poor, really makes no sense a punk record store is a niche store asking for a product they clearly don't carry has nothing to do with liking a formerly popular style of musicalso: does anyone care whether 18th-century Germans approve of us liking Bach? or whether boomers approve of us liking disco?what are you actually trying to say?trying to align yourself with Japan in some bizarre way by claiming to have some kind of "inside knowledge" you actually just made up out of thin air?
>>129667898imagine 15-year-old boyying this hard
>>129667188based Japan
>>129668442>claiming to have some kind of "inside knowledge" you actually just made up out of thin air?Look, You might not be aware of this. But when an angry internet autistic child invents scenarios specifically to make himself angry, you sit down. You listen. You learn.
>>129667188Based japs.
>>129668467>>129668498OP Ethan from Iowa, USA doesn't know anything about Japan.
>>129667188If I saw a Chinese tourist asking about Kenny Rogers albums I would think they’re the most based person in the world
Zoomers really ruined this website
>>129667188Nah it's more like asking for 80s Arethra Franklin or George Benson, the stuff city pop was based on. Completely valid choice
>>129667188this isnt true. nips like citypop because americans like it
>>129669157t. 40 year old who nostalgiafags about his youth and "le good ol days of 4chin" every single day
>>129669223lol the era when people admired America is long gone
>>129667188Why should I, someone who enjoys City Pop, care what some fag who lives across the pacific ocean thinks of City Pop? Imagine what kind of turboweeb you have to be to stop listening to city pop because the japanese equivalent of billybob joe tells you "I don't like city pop">Nobody would take this person seriously and would think their music taste is shitImagine looking to other people for validation.
My brother had something like this experience.He was in a car with a Brazilian dude, and was like "hey I have a baile funk compilation on my ipod, that's Brazilian right?"and the Brazilian guy generally recognized the music but seemed a little embarrassed and said "this is some old stuff"like if a foreigner said to us "hey you're american I have some rap" and started playing "Parents Just Don't Understand"but I have a suspicion that the newer baile funk the Brazilian guy liked is probably worse, the way current rap music sucks.
>>129667188>In Japan, "City Pop" is considered old outdated corny manufactured ass music your grandpa listens toYou're leaving out the fact that the image in your OP is literally taken from a Japanese punk record store.Why would you leave that out, unless you're trying to force a narrative?
>>129667188japcels despise it asian bitches love it and so do I
Same thing in Sweden, every foreigner seems obsessed with either "Swedish metal" which like 2% of the population listens to, ABBA and this externally manufactured "Scandi-pop" BS that's not even popular here, and the rare ones who care about the niche "indie" and hardcore trends of the 90s. The most popular Swedish music is adult contemporary pop, singer-songwriters and middle-of-the-road rock nobody from outside Sweden seems to care about.
>>129667188>It would be like Chinese tourists in New York City going into an underground punk record store and ask: "Hey do you have Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life? it's the biggest American song from the 70s we love her back in China ... no? Okay what about Disco Duck? any Kenny Rogers?"I don't see any problem with this. Japs just hate foreigners because they don't have to work 80 hour weeks and steal all their women.
>>129670620You're not fooling anyone. That's entirety of Sweden's contribution to music and everyone knows it.
>>129670620the most popular swedish music is kpop
>>129667188>>129667188>They are confused as to why outsiders even listen to itExoticism and "vibes"
like i give a shit what they think, they have their own RYM and Close to the Edge was their #1
>>129670620is the ark still popular in sweden?
>>129670620> Same thing in Sweden, every foreigner seems obsessed with either "Swedish metal" which like 2% of the population listens to, ABBA and this externally manufactured "Scandi-pop" BS that's not even popular here, and the rare ones who care about the niche "indie" and hardcore trends of the 90s. This reminds me of an interview with Makoto Kawabata from Acid Mother’s Temple I read years ago. The American retard interviewing him kept mentioning that noise/psych rock was so popular in Japan, until eventually Kawabata says something like, “Look, I don’t know why you keep saying that and where you get your information from. This music is not popular at all in Japan and the vast majority of people don’t even know it exists.”
>>129673011Judging by the radio stations i hear playing at stores, yes.Also rap is kinda big but extremely polarizing. Old media basically pretends it doesn't exist, and only reluctantly acknowledges it when they absolutely have to. All Swedish media is aimed at boomers and Gen X hipsters.For some reason, R&B never caught on here, maybe it's the lack of club culture.
>>129673016>amtshit music
how do they feel about Tsumanne? It's the only japanese album I really like
