/r/citypop
A subreddit for City Pop, a Japanese style of popular music originating in the 1980s.
Official City Pop Discord: https://discord.gg/pN2fST6
Just discovered City Pop?
Try one of these recommendation charts:
Where do I start?
By decade: 70s / 80s / 90s / 00s
By color: Red / Blue / Yellow / Purple-ish / Grayscale
Or check out SuperKayo, a community maintained CITY POP and Japanese oldies archive.
Thinking of starting a collection?
Guide: How Do I Collect Japanese Music from Outside Japan?
About City Pop (Text Source: Wikipedia, RYM)
In the early 1980s, with the spread of car stereos, the term City Pop came to describe a type of popular music... a breezy, mellow mixture of smooth jazz and album-oriented rock – often with elements of jazz fusion, jazz-funk, or boogie – which appealed to an older and more affluent Japanese audience. Essentially a "mood" or "lifestyle" genre, its themes reflected a life of luxury in a sophisticated urban environment.
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Related subreddits:
/r/TrueCityPop (a highly curated alternative)
/r/JapaneseNewMusic
/r/japanesemusic
/r/jfunk
/r/shibuyakei
/r/jpop
/r/OmegaTribe
/r/Yuming
/r/silkysmoothmusic
/r/boogiemusic
/r/softrock
/r/jazzfusion
/r/vintageobscura
External links/blogs:
Kayo Kyoku Plus (lots of info and YT links!)
Please do not share illegal download links on the subreddit. Thanks!
/r/citypop
Headed out to Los Angeles soon and wondering if anyone would reccomend a couple shops to check out that I might can find some good citypop? Thanks so much!
I really enjoy listening to Ginger Root and the sound he creates. I'd like to listen to more citypop, but don't know where to start.
I think the chorus or some part she says something like “I wanna be neat, neat, every day” that or she says clean?
I run into it every now and again and I think it’s from one of the bigger names, but I feel so silly for always forgetting the song and artist.
Anybody basing their City Pop collection on a specific artist?
I like most City Pop songs and artist i have heard and I do have some of the must haves for City Pop fans (Tomoko Aran's Fuyu Kukan, Mariya Takeuchi's Variety, Takako Mamiya's Love Trip etc) but i have focused my collecting on City Pop artist Yuko Tomita. This is because I heard her songs first and that is what brought me into City Pop (I had listened to heavy metal band Loudness's song Odin and the Youtube AI thought i wanted to hear other Japanese artists and brought up Yuko Tomita's Shampoo)
I know have tapes, CD's, records, autographs, ticket stubs, posters of hers.