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"City pop (シティ・ポップ, shiti poppu) is a loosely defined form of Japanese pop music that emerged in the late 1970s and peaked in the 1980s, however the term "City Pop" would first be used in the 90s. It was originally termed as an offshoot of Japan's Western-influenced "new music", but came to include a wide range of styles – including AOR, soft rock, R&B, funk, and boogie – that were associated with the country's nascent economic boom and leisure class. It was also identified with new technologies such as the Walkman, cars with built-in cassette decks and FM stereos, and various electronic musical instruments.
There is no unified consensus among scholars regarding the definition of city pop. In Japan, the tag simply referred to music that projected an "urban" feel and whose target demographic was urbanites. Many of the artists did not embrace the Japanese influences of their predecessors. Some examples may also feature tropical flourishes or elements taken from disco, jazz fusion, Okinawan, Latin and Caribbean music. Singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita, who was among the genre's pioneers and most successful artists, is sometimes called the "king" of city pop.
City pop lost mainstream appeal after the 1980s and was derided by younger generations of Japanese. In the early 2010s, partly through the instigation of music-sharing blogs and Japanese reissues, city pop gained an international online following as well as becoming a touchstone for the sample-based microgenres known as vaporwave and future funk." - From Wikipedia
My Fav Artists
TAZZ (or Tazumi Toyoshima)
Anri (or Kawashima Eiko)
Meiko Nakahara
Noriyo Ikeda
All of my favorite songs of the city pop genre are located in the SCM Music Player! Please give it a listen!
Space Fantasy, Ro Ro Ro Russian Roulette, まぼろしのQueen, I CAN'T STOP THE LONELINESS, Dream In The Street, CAT'S EYE (og&retake), ASPHALT LADY, and Windy Summer are my top favs :)