>is a loosely defined form of Japanese pop music that emerged in the mid-1970s and peaked in popularity during the 1980sI am now getting into it. Its very good. Gives me nostalgia for something I never experienced.
>inb4 thing japanYes because japan is fucking cool and this is an otaku forum
singles genrestick with playlists or the biggest hits that pop up in the youtube recs, because the albums are full of filler and crappy idol core to pad them out in between the 3-4 banger singles. try to find ones that the ymo guys worked on (hosono, sakamoto, takahashi) as those will give you the best instrumentals/production. or tatsuro yamashita
>>130992867Hello, based department?
>>130992852>>130992867
>>130992885I listened to one hour long comp.. turns out it was AI.. sad.
>>130992852the whole thing of>thing Japan Is that Japanese music almost always has Jazz influences. Once you understand the common Jazz Pentatonic you understand Japanese music to a T. And yes this pentatoic is superior to the Rock-Blues one and requires more study.
>>130992885>>130992852Don't forget Kirinji and Gingerroot
>>130992885>stick with playlists or the biggest hits that pop up in the youtube recs, because the albums are full of filler and crappy idol core to pad them out in between the 3-4 banger singles.So like.. most albums?Unc acts like this isn't nearly every album ever lmao. 2-3 good songs. 1 great song. 8 shit cakes.
>>130992912Never watch any youtube music compilation made after 2024
>Tatsuro Yamashita - Moon Glow>Anri - Timely!>Toshiki Kadomatsu - After 5 Clash>Taeko Ohnuki - Sunshower>Makoto Matsushita - First LightThere, have fun. You can listen to Masayoshi Takanaka and still find something new but I'd hesitate to call him "city pop"
>>130992912>>130993089If listened to the whole thing it must've been at least decent. AI is the future. Cope lil bro.
>>130992867real talk
>>130992867>>130992897>>130992917Now have a threesome
>>130992852AAAWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>130992852SAY. MY. NAME.PLAY WITH FIREEE TAKE ME HIIIIGHHERRRRRR.
>>130992852finally, a thread for me. these are all the artists currently in my City Pop playlist, but I really need to continue to expand it>Masayoshi Takanaka>Taeko Ohnuki>Minako Yoshida>Bread & Butter>Miki Matsubara>Spectrum>Junko Ohashi>Yasuha>Kay Ishiguro>Kingo Hamada>Anri>Meiko Nakahara>Tomoko Aran>Junko Yagami>Piper>Mariya Takeuchi>Momoko Kikuchi>Maiko Okamoto>1986 Omega Tribe>Reiko Takahashi>Shizuka Kudo>Wink>Cindy>Yoko Oginome
>>130993878Thank you for the list anon. >t. OP
nigga we was bumpin this shit in 09
>>130993981I was 5 in 2009.
city pop is for people who dont know their music tastes or perhaps, have no taste
>130994125This but every genre I dislike.
Oh /mu/ we don't have threads about music. We just goon to kpop girlies.
I don't want to be the gatekeeper guy, but I genuinely don't understand how you can like city pop without loving funk, boogie, disco and other stuff, it's very similar.
>>130994258Who said that?
Excuse me???? I'm a 2005 gen-z and I absolutely hate these types of songs!!!! I think they're overrated as hell!!!!Just saying....
>>130994270#deep
>>130993096>Listening to male artists
>>130992852The sure sign of a modern musical pseud is their obsession with city pop. It's mostly concerned with admiring aesthetics and typical fetishization of Japanese culture. Like with most 'Thing, Japan' stuff there is great stuff to be found and appreciated, but it's mostly a trend that'll be dropped when the next one shows up.
>>130992852>I am now getting into it.WTF would you waste time on a mid-quality niche genre peaked before you were born. Is this some hipster thing?
>You can't just like a thing>you have to be holier than thou about it
>>130995455Came across a compilation on youtube the other night while playing vidya, really dug it. Its really not complicated.
>>130992852>>130992867It's cool but I got tired of seeing this woman's face in the youtube recs.
For me its thiscity pop is kind of a broad term, its often used to describe what are actually a few different distinct soundsYou have more funk/disco influenced stuff, ballads, what was called "techno-kayo" (synthpop/YMO influenced), and stuff that gets jazzy/new age
>>130995581Who is she
>>130995588I appreciate the rec. I used the term because that's what the compilation was called.
>>130995332>worrying about gender
>>130995589with all due respect, you must be quite youngthis was hugely pushed on youtube around late 10s. its a good song nevertheless. mariya takeuchi is the singercity pop is cool, its like the japanese version of yacht rock
>>130992917nigga it's the same scale.
>>130995639>city pop is cool, its like the japanese version of yacht rockCan you uh.. give me some 'yacht rock' so I can understand this better, anon?
>>130995688you shouldn't be posting on /mu/ if you don't even know what yacht rock is
>>130995873Never heard the term in my life till here and now.
>>130992852Is pic related allowed in this thread? What about Kayōkyoku like Watashi wa piano?
>>130992852>City PopOh FUCK right off. Muh /wpop/ muh /citypop/, it's all just POP, you stupid faggot.
>>130995930then you don't know much about music and you need to shut up and lurk more
>>130995688NTA but "Yacht Rock" aka AOR Westcoast was a huge influence on City Pop, here's some examples:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUVaZG4gRJ8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovnU3NspBqMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRyJVda-UcAnd some straight up Japanese Yacht Rock:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f23ZMkOACchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1HER9anM68
>>130996020Appreciate it anon.
>>130992867Japan is not that cool, they just found a way to market and export their own national chauvinism to the world.
>>130995992lmao what a tryhard. Contrarianism does not make you "cool" or "indie", just tells us you got no chin.
>>130992852City pop and vaporwave are genres for a generation of kids who only grew up listening to music as background noise while they played video games. Of course they would gravitate to music where only the “vibes” matter.
Reminder ''city pop'' is not a real or unique genre and is just 80s American pop but in Japanese so it's sugoi for weebs. Infact, the most popular city pop song ''Stay with Me'' is a ripoff of Michael Jackson's ''It’s the Falling in Love''
>>130996035>>130996085someone is madddddd
>>130996062No seriously, where the fuck is your chin?
>>130995688https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0UDvxGPD4
>>130995442>>130996062>>130996085C r y h a r d e rryharder
https://youtu.be/3E9NNRo1op8?si=tMEpE57tOTEpdoZ3 >listen>want to hear more>realize it was all AIfugg
>>130996499I got got by that same exact playlist. AI is getting too good
>>130996499>>130996590If you enjoyed it, what's the harm?
>>130996614it's inauthentic
>>130996085>but in Japanese so it's sugoi for weebsWrong, City Pop also exists in Spanish:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7F83UQXf-Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0xH_ETLkPQIn French:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t3b0K7uUAAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq_O3ZwequYIn Italianhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3F8kLoazGgetc etc
>>130992852Based
>>130998174no true scotsman
>>130992852japanese music is based on jazz
>>131001339>mussoliniwait hol up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7bL_vzh5dI
Lot of moaning and crying going on in this thread. Relax and post music
for me, it's You Can Fly by Naoko Gushima
>>131001339Korean toohttps://youtube.com/watch?v=942NkXvAtAMhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=67jSYCSrnE4https://youtube.com/watch?v=2MiQonPvlVM
>>130992852Any high energy songs?
>>131003175City Pop with Hi-NRG undertones of coursehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnixfwX2QDQ
>>131003801Arigato you.
>>130994258Not just very similar, it is basically that. A lot of what people call "city pop" is just 70/80s soul, funk, disco, jazz fusion, and rock, but sung in Japanese or played by Japanese musicians. Many songs also directly take melodies/interpolate from american songs that came out around the same time.
>>130995688This dude was apparently huge in Japanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwouzFuEMKI
>>131005846do you have any recs for any of those genres that sound similar to city pop?
>>131006076https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8sv7IYlHIQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwvf2ilsogohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJaLKH6LimAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOM_UcDxH4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moh7EZDF_oUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3dXLcjfuPEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHzYpzS8m3Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3LTtBisiAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uFRHmleNIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDorA7HMYyg
>>130992852Nice vibes
>>131006643>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwvf2ilsogoaffirms your claim
>>131006643>>131005846No hate to city pop at all btw. I just wanted to point out that most city pop is just Japanese RnB (Funk, soul, disco) + fusion rather than something separate. I love both equallyFor more direct influences here's a list belowAverage White Band, Chaka Khan "Whatcha' Gonna Do For Me" = Junko Ohashi "I Love You So"Billy Griffin "Serious" = Yoshimi Iwasaki "What's Love"Cherelle and Alexander O'Neal "Saturday Love" = Ritsuko Kazami "浮気な彼" (He Is Cheating)Cheryl Lynn "To Be Real" = Toshiki Kadomatsu "初恋" (First Love)The Dazz Band "Everyday Love" = Anri "Shyness Boy"Earth, Wind, & Fire "Can't Hide Love" = Mai Yamane "Tasogare" (Twilight)Earth, Wind, & Fire "Let's Groove" = Carlos Toshiki & Omega Tribe "Reiko"The Emotions "Flowers" = Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama "We Are In The Dark"The Four Tops "The Well Is Dry" = Anri "I Can't Stop Loneliness" (intro)George Duke "Brazilian Love Affair" = Omega Tribe "Midnight Down Town"Herbie Hancock "I Thought It Was You" = Rie (Nakahara) "Last Chance"High Fashion "Feelin' Lucky Lately" = Toshiki Kadomatsu "If You (Wanna Dance Tonight)"The Isley Brothers "If You Were There" = Sugar Babe "Down Town"The Isley Brothers "Liquid Love" = Tatsuro Yamashita "Silent Screamer"The Isley Brothers "Who Loves You Better" = Tatsuro Yamashita "Hot Shot"Johnny Bristol "Do It To My Mind" = Yuko Ohtaki "Warming Up"Michael Jackson "It's The Falling In Love" = Miki Matsubara "真夜中のドア ( Stay With Me)"Quincy Jones "The Dude" = Yumi Matsutoya "Welcome To The Shining Time"Niteflyte "If You Want It" = Tatsuro Yamashita "Sparkle"Ray Parker, Jr. "A Woman Needs Love" = New Edition "Mr. Telephone Man" = Omega Tribe "Dear Breeze"Queen "Another One Bites The Dust" = Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama "Wanna Kiss"Lee Ritenour "Mr. Briefcase" = Toshiki Kadomatsu "Office Lady"Scritti Politti "Don't Work That Hard" = Mami Koyama "ディスタンスの真夏" (Distance Midsummer)
>>131007388Even within jazzhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRWNYWn8ucAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biWNsHFmKfc
>>130992852I use citypop exclusively as a backing track to watch livestreams of riots. The corpopositive vibe it got from being used in product placement slideshows at sales conventions pairs perfectly with the imagary of burning cities.
>>130992985>t. normie tier npc with shit taste in music
City pop is low t dork music for terminally online dweebs. You can like it but it means you pull your pants up too high and would get bullied in a 1980s movie by the muscled up high school jock because you wore glasses and had braces. Don't even try to argue this isn't the case unless you're going to post a pic of your face to prove otherwise. Now granted, if you're a young kid you might not have realized you're a dweeb yet but trust me, you are.
