The popularity in small teams in the last years of a type of fashionable J-Pop called “city’s pop” does not show symptoms to settle in 2022 and continue to expand its scope.

Many characteristics of the reimpecated phenomenon continue to publish on radio, television and online, and books on the subject are published consecutive to Japan. The remains of vinyl and CD recordings are also blooming.

Explaining the genesis of this motion is an issue for some other article, however, one thing that can be said with certainty is that Internet culture has played a main role. Originally, the genre began to be rediscovered online in the context of underground club music, such as Vaporwave and Future Funk. From there, the music was downloaded from YouTube has popular worldwide, which later began to look like social networks such as Tiktok, which leads to the main trend called Japanese City Pop.

“Plastic love” through Mariya Takeuchi and “Mayonaka No Door – is with me” through Miki Matsubara are two representative clues that have become successful hits of this movement. Other songs by City Pop of Antaleryear attached to the fall, to the merit of an indistinct popularity, either at the national point and thanks to its use in the Tiktok reels, such as “4:00” through Taeko Unuki, “Machi no Dolphin” through Kingo Hamada and the “days of memory” through Anri “.

“Fly-Day Chinatown” is Yasuha’s first single in 1981. The Mononyme singer and composer is known for its piano functionality and the hard song that reminds of another notable Japanese singer, Junko Yagami. His first album, Transit, released of the same year, is strongly influenced through Billy Joel and other artists of the time, as well as West Coast Rock. Although the 61 -year -old artist deserves to have been considered an intelligent composer, she is more known in her country of origin as a television personality and unfortunately has been undervalued as a musician over the years. Therefore, it is fair to say that despite everything he obtains the popularity that he deserves through the force of social networks. The skillful words of Toyohisa Araki and the forged and dyed arrangements of Funk through Akira Inoue even smile today, and above all, Yasuha’s voice that expresses sinuous melodies are distinguished.

While the “Chinatown of the Fog” “dance videos in the line of other numbers in the city of the city are popular in Tiktok, some other exclusive unprecedented phenomenon of the song is that it caught the attention to the similarity of the couple of the voice of the voice of Killua, a character of the anime x hunter, and an edition with the reduced floor for the closer of the voice of the voice of the voice. Other long -term creators of funk such as Evade D’uchuu and Aests, and the popular night tempo, the DJ manufacturer / South Korea music also shared unofficial remixes, which contribute to the general review of the track.

These advances have led to the official lyric video of the “Chinatown” of the Fog Day “shared through the label (Universal Music Japan) on YouTube. The video is undeniable that puts a fashionable representation of an anime flavor of a young woman with translations of words in several languages, and the fact that you do not use the images or those that do not use the videos of Yasuha or the original paintings of the original paintings of the original paintings of the original paintings of the original paintings of the original paintings of the original paintings of The jacket.

It is also great to see the most available Yasuha’s rear catalog after 4 of his albums were published digitally on June 29. The album CDs are also re -broadcast, which means that the label is also aimed at the generation that prefers to have physical copies of music. UMJ also revives a 7-inch single from “Chinatown Fly-Day” and a vinyl transit edition, appearing that the label has definitely seized the trend.

In addition, the “pop varieties of the city” of the label are a series of reissue that directly reflects the pop movement of the city in progress. In addition to Magical (1984) through Junko Ohashi, the original vinyl prize for this album is flying, and the Heart cocktail of Kingo Hamada (1985), a variety adapted to beginners and enthusiasts in the city of the city of the city. The series includes old Tatsuhiko Yamamoto and Hi-Fi Set albums, as well as the favorites of Yoko Nishigohri’s enthusiasts (my name is Yoko, 1980) and furuid (Side to Side, 1978).

This reissue task will continue until the end of the year with a hundred titles to publish. The moment of the albums scheduled for August 31 will show a wide diversity of artists, adding Meiko Nakahara, sentimental Town Romance, Ritsuko Kazami and Tokyo Q Channel. Nakahara Friday Magic’s remarkable album (1982) will also be broadcast as a vinyl edition. The song “Fantasy” from this set also gets Japan’s floor, especially on social networks, so the album is a timely selection in this regard.

These recent tendencies alone are enough to imply that the emotion surrounding the city’s pop does not avoid soon. Veterans fans would possibly think that the wave of social media modes will lead to the genre in the frenzy of the client’s culture, however, it is preferable not to interpret the movement in a negative way and see it as an opportunity for the inheritance to be reevaluated through a logo of a new generation of fans. It is also vital to repeat the works carefully, as in the case of the “Chinese district of the handkerchief”, so that artists obtain intelligent recognition. The fact that an old type of J-Pop is heard international today is a glorious and development development, and I hope that more other people have the possibility of feeling it in a genuine time.

– This article through Miver Kurimoto gave the impression for the first time in Billboard Japan.