He posts tops once a month, usually once in 2 months, and recently he went 6 months without uploading. All his videos are less than 4-8 minutes long, and he’s got less than 20 on his channel, for 110 minutes of watch time. It’s easy to see why the algorithm isn’t pushing his channel, but he could easily get there with a break out video, and posting once weekly. The quality might suffer, but that’ll be a decision for him to make.
I love this genre. Tatsuro Yamashita quickly shot up to my personal top five, and I went out of my way to get an artbook of Hiroshi Nigai's work because his use of colors on all of his album covers captured the joy of a Japanese summer in the 80s perfectly.
City Pop Is a simply a different name for *Japanese 80 R&B* . Is like the same thing with 40s/50s R&B was called "Rock n Roll", the estoy 90s british New Funk was called 'Acid Jazz' ..and so.
I'm really impressed myself. Anyone could have stretched this out for another 4 hour long "short retrospective" but getting the ideas, aesthetic, and message nailed to a T in a short amount of time is very refreshing.
Great video. And the influence of City Pop is spreading to other artists as well, such as Jenevieve's "Baby Powder" sampling Anri's "Last Summer Whisper", or just Ginger Root in general (their videos and music are heavily influenced by City Pop and the time period).
there's a youtube channel channel called jummy koproto, who put compiled a bunch of city pop songs. unfortunately almost all of his videos got removed a few months ago. listening to those always made my day better, and im so glad he got me into city pop :)
Gonna be honest, never much cared for music but your 2 recent videos exude so much passion and care that I can't help but agree, I can't wait to see your next work of art
There are many paths to city pop and nostalgia for a time and place you never experienced. For me, I already loved Japanese jazz and funk from the 70s, and many of those musicians pivoted to city pop in the 80s. I love Japanese motorsports culture as well, and all these things are interconnected. A booming economy means fast cars, after all. As far as modern artists go, Ginger Root just keeps cranking out the bangers.
great video. As a big fan of synthwave, vaporwave, outrun and hyperpop I'm surprised at myself for taking so long to really look and listen into this genre. Falling in love with those previous mentioned genres have been some of the best music years of my life and I'm so excited to start listening and learning more about city pop. Thanks for sharing your insights.
Thank you so much for making this video!!!!! I get nostalgic becuase most citypop was featured in older anime, especially in Asia!!! So much childhood memoriesssss
Dude, you're one good video essayist! I love the editing and the fast burst information. I say try making some longer videos, I could watch these for hours!
I’m so deep in the rabbit hole, most of my favorite artist aren’t well known unfortunately like Kengo Kurozumi. His songs like “Juggler” is so underrated 😢.
YESSS YOU FINISHED THE VIDEO!!!!!! Such a great video and genre of music. City pop is part of the reason why I fell in love Japan as a country and is why I'm also doing a Japanese language course. I love City-Pop what can I say?
W O W. what a great video, beautiful editing, definitely reminds me of mr. amazing's future funk video. I've been a city pop fan for 3 years now and the first time I ever heard it in public I lost my shit. great video man
Wow this is some of the most imaginative and beautifully fluid editing. I wish I was capable of this but I wouldn’t even know where to start. If you have any wisdom on how you learned any of this it would me much appreciated. And I’m glad to know you recently got into Omega Tribe’s stuff and it inspired you :) It’s my favourite band ever lol
I had discovered city pop quite a few years prior to 2017, but it didn't have a name, it was just 80s Japanese music to me. I had first massively started watching anime in 2010 and pretty soon discovered cool soundtracks from 80s anime like, Macross, Megazone 23, bubblegum crisis, etc and then I found a few playlists with 80s Japanese music on the 8track site. The site used to host the music, it was different then it is now. Aside from those playlist there was a blog that would comment and upload on youtube various idol music from the 80s. So i was aware of the music that became branded as citypop, but 2017 was like an explosion, so many new awesome melodies appeared.
For a moment, i walked into your vision of this world, its so one of the least where one will ever do into a video, so dynamic, perfect, and sow comfortable
Very well done. Hit on some of the reasons city pop was so icon. We all totally missed it here in the US. But here we are over 40 years later and rediscover it in all its glory. I’m 68 and look back and think what a brilliant genre that just passed me by.
There's nothing quite like discovering a City Pop album that comes off as odd but still slaps. **cough cough** Miharu Koshi's Parallelisme, Mari Iijima's Blanche, and Akiko Yano's Tadaima.
hi steinful, i know you're not gonna read this comment, but as an aspiring editor, the way you mass-precomp is so amazing! your editing skills make everything seamless! layers upon layers with compositing techniques that make every frame a painting! color choices, blurring to establish fore/backgrounds, constant movement, highlight/shadows, i could go on-and-on. i applaud you for your work and will constantly use you as a reference to study. thank you for making all of your outstanding videos and i hope to see many more to come. keep doing your thing and keep on rocking in the free world.
Definitely one of my most favorite genres since around 2017 - Mariya takeuchi and miki matsubara are great, im so happy for the success of City pop, it really is a Gem ⛩️
yo its finally here if yall want a contemporary citypop artist you should def check out yukika - it might be a bygone genre but itll never die. not only with future funk, but citypop sounds and influences have been very prevalent in kpop with groups like loona and im praying we’ll see some citypop sample chops in rap soon (maybe with ppl like peggy, who knows) 🙏
Cherries jubilee is my favourite track from yukika though its hard to pick! It defos will live on with the new generation and I HOPE Peggy samples it! I remember the weeknd sampled midnight pretenders so who knows!!
