![]() It’s thanks to YouTube that many people have come to learn, or in some cases, relearn, the beauty and sound of city pop. However, despite losing its popularity in the 90s, the genre regained a mass following in the mid-2010s due to the uploading of famous city pop hits on the streaming site, YouTube. With faces of the genre such as Mariya Takeuchi, Casiopea and “King of City Pop”, Tatsuro Yamashita, City Pop became popular not just only in Japan, but also in Korea, a branch that we will go over soon. Other stories refer to the term’s inception due to the image one thought of when they heard the music: a bright city popping out both daylight and nightlight. Some stories claim that it’s due to the genre’s music being played frequently during taxi rides in the big cities of Japan. There are many stories about how the genre got its name. With the combined sounds of Jazz, disco, funk and boogie, the genre became the definitive sound of Japan in the 80’s as the country’s economy grew before the multiple economic collapses in Asia during the 1990’s. ![]() Not purely Japanese in sound and not particularly western in nature, City Pop is a hybrid of genres meshed into one. Created in the late 1970’s and becoming a trend in the 1980’s, City Pop is a genre that is difficult to explain in words.
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