How the fuck do you retroactively call all japanese funk/soul from the 70s to 80s "city pop"? Imagine if people started calling 80s american soul/funk/jazz "urban groove"?
all genres are just loose umbrella terms.
white people be smug control freaks, simple as. tons of effort into differentiating micro subgenres dominated by white people, but none of that effort exists for non-white music kek. tale as old as the braggadawn.
>>130443504Because it sounds completely different. If Mariya Takeuchi had Smokey Robinson producing her tracks it would be called funk. City pop is closer to Kraftwerk than disco.
>>130443504How do you call watered down foreign funk/soul imitations funk or soul? Sorry weeb but that ersatz music scene deserves its own category outside of the real stuff
>>130444026also, there IS japanese funk from the 70's that nobody refers to as city pop because it's funk.check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViRifEzBE5k
>>130444169this is too boring to be funk
>>130443921This all so called "music" made by subhuman inferior whites is trash anyone who listens to a yt musician is generally a piece of shit person
>>130443504What about Northern Soul?
>>130443504In zoomerland this is a 10.
>>130444261>crackerwht did he mean by this?
>>130444232nah, not really
>>130443504imagine getting this triggered over genre names
>>130443504>retroactivelyThe Japs were calling their music city pop in the 70s-80s lol, this isn't just some recent "2010s white guy" thing.
>>130446318More specifically, "city pop" and "city music" was a marketing term in the early 1980s to shill a handful of Japanese pop musicians, rather than a genre term.City pop as an actual style/genre was coined in the early 2000s to loosely encompass Japanese pop musicians that sounded like those handful of musicians.
>>130443504I would hypothesize part of that is from the cause of having lego brains or mindsAlright and the other thing i would claim is that ‘city pop’ as a genre is sort of situated from beyond the end of history and thats partly the way that genre gets constituted and alright also the way that ‘city pop’ is ‘constituted ontology’ before the last.fm ‘algorithm’ is extremely unclear, the algorithm to last.fm is the gutterpunk to the internet, all the last.fm algorithm talks about is the band crass but that just shows the wisdom to the gutterpunks anyways that’s besides the point was is to the point is also the textural sense of smooth and also grit and sand the materiality of the figural material that gets evoked by an interest in filters and lenses and magnifying glasses and is part of the sometimes germanic photo documentary west german sebald texture to the past of flying the blessed concorde to or into cologne or something like that, i feel like this claims more about the furniture of ikea then about the daily life of japan or japanese pop music if i wrote a city pop song the song would be called like waiting for dragon quest and be about waiting in line all day for the new dragon quest game and the whole thing would just be star wars jokes and pondering on or about kevin smith and patton oswalt and then keats show up is like ‘ i was a redbranch king’ and everybody ‘ is like what does that even mean’ and keats is like ‘read my tome on astrology’ and everybody is like ‘already done, talk some more about connacht’
>>130443504>soul its just Japanese jazz rock
