'80s US: dark, gloomy, distopic, pessimistic. '80s Japan: cutesy, romantic, upbeat, hopeful. Future funk: mix the two.

4 жыл бұрын

​@@pippo9830 yeah for the uk it's ecconamy collapsed. in fact Italy had a higher GDP then the uk in the 70s! the uk had a total economical collapse and mass amounts of British business were sold off by thatcher in the 80s (another bad decade for the uk) too USA, mainland Europe and India just to save the uk economy. the 90s were ok though, but the 2000s were not with the whole recession. but things started getting back on track until 2016 and brexit. so yeah now we are facing a politically charged forced isolationism which will result in economical collapse top that with an ideological clown as pm and that is the recipe for fun times ahead for sure.

@tama7026

4 жыл бұрын

The OG 80's Yugoslavia was both

@YusufRaul

4 жыл бұрын

80's USSR, existencial angst, dreamwave, and spiritual materialism. Check sovietwave, is a pleasure in itself

@cptromero5595

4 жыл бұрын

80s America is beautiful and a awesome time

@SuaNam08

4 жыл бұрын

80’s US wasn’t pessimistic. I’m old enough to remember some of it. And the City Pop genre draws heavily from the popular upbeat black American music of the time. Michael Jackson-Rock With You (1979) kzread.info/dash/bejne/gaqurLyNm7q_n7w.html Stephanie Mills and Teddy Pendergrass-Two Hearts (1981) kzread.info/dash/bejne/p35rqrBqnrHKksY.html Last Dance-Donna Summer (1978) kzread.info/dash/bejne/qKWOu5qJZJXWfNI.html Never knew Love Like This Before -Stephanie Mills (1980) kzread.info/dash/bejne/fnmspbSEc7abg7A.html Bill Withers-Lovely Day (1977) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lHmZw7Vvlti7n6Q.html Papillon [aka Hot Butterfly]-Chaka Khan (1980) kzread.info/dash/bejne/faplt8-QeqmscZs.html Patrice Rushen-Remind Me 1982 kzread.info/dash/bejne/hImDqbl8h6vQp8Y.html Sweet Love-Anita Baker (1986) kzread.info/dash/bejne/f45ltZmxYNTFedo.html Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)-Aretha Franklin (1973) kzread.info/dash/bejne/poOHpJaSaMiZipc.html Forget Me Nots-Patrice Rushen (1982) kzread.info/dash/bejne/c6Gu0pmQYLXRgKQ.html Lovin’ You-Minnie Riperton 1975 kzread.info/dash/bejne/nmaX1tGlhcS4oMo.html Bill Withers-Just the Two of Us (1980) kzread.info/dash/bejne/nHmtmK-ApZbIeaQ.html

Now that I'm 30, I've come to realize that the future I was promised is never going to come. Future Funk, Vaporwave, and lo-fi hip hop (beats to study/sleep/whatever to) are basically a soundtrack to the alternate future where I'm happy.

@TonyRios

4 жыл бұрын

they got away with it

@DrRESHES

4 жыл бұрын

for many, the age of 30 is the start point of their life, to prosperous and exciting decade.

@ArninoStorm

4 жыл бұрын

Jesus that comment hit me hard.

@TheNorthHawk

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just hit 30 at the start of the year myself. The future really was stolen from us by the older generation.

@knmonlinemedia

4 жыл бұрын

Same

I'm from the future and this was good. Thanks.

@yeetleslaw8529

4 жыл бұрын

I'm also from the future, but from 11 hours ago. And I agree, the video was good.

@mrplumpy5077

4 жыл бұрын

*inserts wanna be like you theme song*

@_ikako_

4 жыл бұрын

I'm from even further ahead and I can assure you, this video makes even more sense today

@TheWerecatboy

3 жыл бұрын

Hi. It's September of 2020. Go back. Don't come here.

@sirfirstnamelastname9039

3 жыл бұрын

I’m from the future and the just fucking sucks now thanks China 🇨🇳

I'm 52 years old and I've finally learned there is an actual name of the music that I love to hear since I teenage. Thank you.

@LeeePowers

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe "Kayokyoku" is the term. The Kayoukyoku infomercial said it was the predecessor to J Pop. They wanted like $ 200 for the box set,I said naw.

@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276

4 жыл бұрын

Look into Simpsonwave, Synthwave, and Vaporwave. I really like Dan Mason ダン·メイソン, LUXURY ELITE, Windows96, D/A/D The Construct. All these are on Bandcamp. For Dan Mason look up the albums Miami Virtual and Lovers.

@allenslau

4 жыл бұрын

@@LeeePowers I do know what is Kayokyoku... I got a small collection of them thanks to my dad. The term isn't well known in the west.

@LeeePowers

4 жыл бұрын

@@allenslau I never knew what it was. There was an infomercial on NHK world for a box set. Mariya Takeuchi and Akiko Wada were amongst the featured artists. To me I just referred to it as Vintage J pop.

@allenslau

4 жыл бұрын

@@LeeePowers oh man.. I watch NHK World all the time. How come I didn't see the infomercial? no matter, Kayokyoku are all on KZread. Interestingly thou, not sure if you are aware of this... Quite a few well known singers from the West have been singing Japanese songs or Japanese version of their songs from the 60's to 70's . Like Peggy March to Andy Williams... they are consider the same category as Kayokyoku.

We all want to live in Japan now, in the early 80s.

@williamfontoura

4 жыл бұрын

We would live there right now !

@Ryu-on1jq

4 жыл бұрын

The most hedonistic decade of Japan. 😍😍⛩️

@rexsun4006

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@Long-HairedLuigi

4 жыл бұрын

I want 2 go back 2 the 80s, PERIOD!

@giovannifranzetti6214

4 жыл бұрын

You are so right on time

7:20: all rise for our City Pop/Future Funk anthem!

@Iiemp4926

4 жыл бұрын

Basic

@Crane_feather

4 жыл бұрын

Right? I's such a bop!

@namdo8958

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@achochan5056

4 жыл бұрын

Plastic love 🤣

@Zerorenren4761

Жыл бұрын

True

Man, I would give my life's savings for a movie about Tatsuro Yamashita's life done in a Studio Ghibli style!

@Houlgravely

4 жыл бұрын

Shit, that's actually a great idea.

KZread's algorithm is working as it should. Really nice video, informative and coherent in the feelings it's emanating.

City pop makes me feel good and hopelessly depressed at the same time

Tatsuro Yamashita is freakin god of city pop alongside Mariya Takeuchi

@assideo

4 жыл бұрын

well he’s her husband 🤷🏻‍♂️

@micahvelli_236

4 жыл бұрын

Well he wrote all her music so..

@Houlgravely

4 жыл бұрын

Toshiki Kadomatsu is arguably the only one who ever reached their level. I'd say let's call it a Holy Trinity of City Pop instead.

@xx_me0w_xx3

4 жыл бұрын

His music was sooo good

@thehermit8618

4 жыл бұрын

The King and Queen of City Pop. Toshiki Kadomatsu is the High Priest

Future Funk is one of the last genres that has me holding onto the future that my generation was promised in the late 80s and early 90s. It’s the one style of music that has put a complete smile on my face during this uninspired, drab and dystopian present. I think the future will be brighter and Future Funk might be one of the catalyst for it! Thank you so much for this video ✌️❣️

@styraxgum

4 жыл бұрын

millenial

@upg5147

4 жыл бұрын

@@styraxgum problem?

Tatsuro Yamashita deserves a Grammy, and be inducted in some Walk of Fame.

@bobmarley4272

2 жыл бұрын

For doing what? Most of his music is just sampled america soul/RnB music.

@jsprite123

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobmarley4272 Feel free to "sample america soul/RnB music" and come up with something even remotely similar. Also, try to be a guitar player, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and producer. Then show us what you came up with.

@Flyhighman77

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobmarley4272 don't use the name of legend .You name should be 'Bot Marley .'

@daoyang223

Жыл бұрын

@@bobmarley4272 They sampled each other

@myusernameforme

Жыл бұрын

Also Toshiki Kadomatsu too, his songs are amazing..

Lol, whenever I drive Uber, I have a collection of old Japanese songs that I play on the radio via a little usb. Hell, if I'm gonna work for 60 cents per mile, I might as well enjoy the ride with music from Tatsuro Yamashita, Mariya Takeuchi, Miki Matsubara, Minako Yoshida, Junko Ohashi, Anri, Cindy, Junko Yagami, Kimiko Kasai, Makoto Matsushita, Meiko Nakahara, Miki Matsubara, Noriyo Ikeda, Tomoko Aran, Toshiki Kadomatsu, Yuko Asano, Yuko Imai, and so many more. Passengers seem to like it, especially Japanese passengers who suddenly remember their youth lol! Anyway, I also love that song "Sparkle" by Tatsuro Yamashita. I have the English version. Hmm it kinda sounds similar to Toshiki Kadomatsu's "Don't Speak Again" or whatever its original Japanese title was. It's a very nice and calming tune especially as I drive into the sunset going home after a long low paying day's work. "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi is definitely my favorite! Speaking of Mariya Takeuchi, did you know that her song "Single Again" has a Philippine version called "Lumayo Ka Man" (Even if You Go Away)? A Philippine singer named Rodel Naval heard Mariya's "Single Again" song while he was on tour in Japan, and according to the story, he was depressed at the time about his mom's death, so he wrote a different lyrical interpretation of the song. Still sounds the same, but it's not just about romance. On the topic of Japanese songs being adapted to other countries, another singer named Hideaki Tokunaga had his song "Saigo no Iiwake" adapted in the Philippines by a singer named Ted Ito and the song was called "Ikaw Pa Rin" (Still You) over there.

@JeremiahFernandez

4 жыл бұрын

will you be my personal driver

@monsieurVi

4 жыл бұрын

I guess your car stereo loves to play randomly "Midnight Driver" by Minako Yoshida at 00:00. Nice list of artists by the way!

@ShakeyHands25

4 жыл бұрын

Grab / uber ka ba? Omg hahaha

@williamfontoura

4 жыл бұрын

Dam good comment my dude. Cheers !

@dealman3312

4 жыл бұрын

Vitezslove Sichtar I remember blasting midnight driver like 15 years ago. I forget how I discovered it. Always loved that song

don't cry because it's over, cry because it's never happened

Wanna experience bubble era and that time long gone? Play Yakuza 0 and Shenmue 1/2.... goosebumps on how close they get the feeling and looks!

@fawaz2745

4 жыл бұрын

Man this hits home hard, somthing as plain as just walking is so enjoyable in Yakuza 0, just taking in the sights. Im addicted to 80s Japan, but i can only experience it through relics and simulations.

@ricg3010

4 жыл бұрын

I wish they just made a walking simulator in 80's Japan

@user-ms7ez6tu7b

4 жыл бұрын

Shenmue is definitely one of my favorites. You don't really get these kind of slow, relaxing exploration games nowadays.

@EmptyHand49

4 жыл бұрын

Yakuza 0 is an amazing game. Now I'm wishing for a GTA style game set in 1980s Tokyo.

@krystianhinz4575

4 жыл бұрын

Oh how I wish the dragon engine from Yakuza 6 and Kiwami 2 could have existed for Yakuza 0, it'd make everything even better. But at least Yakuza 0 is still one hell of a game

Van Paugam defined the City Pop style of mixing. His channel was the first real community for fans of the genre. The livestream was a goldmine. When his channel was taken down, the community suffered a huge loss. He’s one of the few people who actually DJ City Pop at real venues, with the real vinyl at that. If not for him, lots of people who never have heard of the genre. VP is a living legend, change my mind.

@MichaelSaba

4 жыл бұрын

I'm definitely going to do more research on VP -- I remember hearing one of his mixes / compilations from the label My Pet Flamingo, but I didn't really have a sense of just how influential he was. I appreciate the recommendation.

@fawaz2745

4 жыл бұрын

Van Paugam was more of a complete experience than just a City Pop stream, the japan driving video playing in the background, the live chat and the fact that it was 24/7 were so instrumental, i cant imagine the amount of copyright strikes the had to deal with DJing on youtube, should have moved to twitch since theyre more lax with copyrights, but then again i doubt that he would get as many views there...

@chaos-kun7310

4 жыл бұрын

Oh God the hours I spent there. I was devastated when his channel got terminated. Good memories...

@maxmustardman298

4 жыл бұрын

shiiit just saw that his channel got killed, damn, took me quite a while to realise.

@defvent

4 жыл бұрын

I miss him

i remember music very close to city pop in mexico when i was a child, kinda interesting, because it was also for us during the era of the "Mexican Miracle"

@tama7026

4 жыл бұрын

There's a song that represents perfectly that age in Mexico is called "Mexico de noche" by silvetti

@szellemsam

4 жыл бұрын

Recuerdo que mi mamá ponía cassettes con canciones mexicanas parecidas a city pop cuando yo era pequeño. Creo que es gracias a eso que tengo cierto apego a las melodías tipo city pop que no sabía que estaban ahí hasta que escuché plastic love.

@frankl216

4 жыл бұрын

@@tama7026 WOW! wow . muchas gracias por compartir no habia escuchado esa cancion.

@kubli365

4 жыл бұрын

That's very interesting. I guess the style wasn't just isolated in Asia. A few Southeast Asian countries also have a genre similar to City Pop.

@mariosuena

4 жыл бұрын

Luis Miguel's music especially on his albums "20 Anos" & "Amarte Es Un Placer" sounds just like citypop

In 2016 I discovered “vapor wave” & my life was never the same. I would wake up around 3-4am just to open KZread to listen to that style. Then I found city pop the beginning of this year!

@djiegoigama1169

4 жыл бұрын

RiCardo Picena saaame

@aerojetrocketdyners-2538

4 жыл бұрын

remember mackintosh plus?

@RicardoPicena

4 жыл бұрын

Spoofy Tofuwu one of that albums songs was the reason I dove deeper to the sub-genre 🙌🏽

Now more than ever, we NEED city pop, considering how positive and hopeful the songs are, they help us feeling better and give us hope during this terrible period of time, and at the end of this, we’ll also have our glory time and our period of never ending luxury and happiness

In case you get famous, we’re your biggest fans:)

@ep1499

4 жыл бұрын

No me

@craigbonder

4 жыл бұрын

No, me

@williamfontoura

4 жыл бұрын

And in case you go, take me with you

This was fantastic. I want in on this new thing I've found. _ALL OF THE FUTURE FUNK, PLEASE_

This is honestly therapy to explain the nostalgia i feel when i listen to city pop thank you.

I can just say WOW. I have been listening to this genre and hadn't been able to understand why I liked it so much ( I'm from Mexico and Japanese culture was most discovered through anime) Thanks for the video.

@arned3901

Жыл бұрын

Dude you gotta check out mexican city pop, always listen to it in the shower even though I don't speak any spanish

@hameedi229

Жыл бұрын

U should listen to this powerful Macross soundtrack theme song 1. Chieri ito - Merry Christmas 2. Mari iijima - Do You Remember Love

Still learning Japanese (to understand my husband's culture better even though both of us are fluent in English) and being Filipino who loves karaoke...it's sad that when I try to sing in Japanese, my alto voice really matches well with the City Pop genre.

You ever thought that all these type of videos are the only ones on KZread where you can actually scroll down the comments and get that warmth heart high instead of eye cancer? I can really relate to most of you. It's gotta mean something, godammit. May the vibes be riding along with you. Yes, you.

I literally just found CityPop a month ago and my life has not been the same. I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt this way about it. It's perfect and just what I needed now.

I found your channel when you uploaded your Nier video and even since then your content has just kept improving. The KZread video essay scene is becoming more and more saturated, but you're definitely headed for the top.

@cloudbloom

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, his nier automata video is the best I've ever seen on the subject and I've been following since

@timderidder5349

4 жыл бұрын

Same

Now Germany has their own spin on it and it takes you back to the B-Boy era of the underground. They call it City Beat Records. If you love the 80’s and love to Break dance and love Electro Hip-Hop, then I suggest City Beat Records. And I do love Japan Anime.

@rotte5537

4 жыл бұрын

Never heard of it though I'm german Thanks for the recommendation i'll search it up!

@davidhunt9685

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah! The Egyptian Lover does a few songs with them. But mainly with E-Rocker. Look up The Dark Side of Dance. DJ Salva 808. The Audio Sonic Crew, and the albums of Electro Underground. Also look up Debonair, and Ceeonic.

@suppengroove

4 жыл бұрын

Interesse ist geweckt.

man I feel so isolated...no one I know irl listens to Fture Funk besides me lmao

@williamfontoura

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. And wen I bring it up, they dont feel the feel, u know

@veemon

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, man :(

@ununun9995

4 жыл бұрын

Then spread the faith on non listener

@h0neychai

4 жыл бұрын

same lmao

@skylarmonsta8304

4 жыл бұрын

dony worry we are here

i rewatch this vid monthly. and honestly, i just think it's so rad that you put yourself out there and rock out at the end!!! bless you

I'm from the future. You made it guys. The tomorrow that was promised you but never given, you manufactured with the tools of your day, in the mold of the vision of yesterday; and it was good. And we owe it all to City Pop.

This is so fascinating..... What I _really_ love about your videos.....is the EMPATHY you clearly have. I think that's something about all this vaporwave city funk retrofuturism post-post-reality etc stuff we don't talk about enough....I think, deep down, a LOT of it has to do with people now....feeling this aching yearning *_empathy_* for the collective confused mass of humanity that came before us, exists now, and will continue on long after us. When I watch videos like this.....that's the emotion it conjures in me, more than anything else. This deeply felt sense that...we're all so confused, we're all trying so hard, we all feel so deeply, and then we die....and it's so tragic, but so beautiful. And recognizing that we're all genuinely in this together....feels good. It feels very good. Sometimes it's the only thing that makes it possible to keep going. Knowing we're all, literally, doing this together...making sense of this immense world and our immense yet miniscule lives....together. As someone who is very introverted....it's this kind of take on what humanity is all about that makes me fall in love with humanity. I am an introvert....very much so. But I love humanity so much. I just don't want to hang out... ;P

The most interesting thing to me, is how this can be applied to 80's USSR. As someone who is very familiar with people from that region/time, the vibe that they speak of is super similar to this.

Truly AMAZING Job. Sharing to all my friends, the ones who know and the ones who (now) don´t know about City Pop and Future Funk. Keep it up Man!

One of my og students said natsukashi is like Marcel Proust with the smell of madeleine, the feeling the smell gives him. Also, growing up in 80's continental europe, I am so happy a younger gen appreciates this fantastic music, that even Alain Delon recorded a song in the style called "comme au cinéma " . French people and japanese people it's a whole thing....

I've watched this 3 times now because you just understand it all so well and I wasn't even really fully aware why city pop has captured me in quite a strange, almost obsessive way like no other music genre has... but I sensed it was for the reasons you said. It's all written so well. Thank you.

This is such a great video! Future Funk and City Pop got me to explore other areas of music, and become a massive music fan, but I always have a special place in my heart for these songs.

Great video! Gave me a new insight into this genre, I've heard so many city pop and future funk songs but never really knew how it emerged. Thank you for bringing a quality analysis, I'm going to search all the tracks and artists mentioned in the video😉

Wow, i really loved this. Thank you so much for your hard work. This is one mini-documentary I didn't know i needed to see until I listened to your opening words. Hooked me. Well done, looking forward to your next works!

Masayoshi takanaka is an absolute gem... The greatest guitarist of all time.

@kurtkrienke2956

Жыл бұрын

this might be overshooting by just a bit

Very informative and entertaining! From all the videos I found about this topic this is my favorite

Thank you so so so much. This made my week. You're prouction value is always so great. Keep it up

Thank you for this ive Always been so in Love with the future funk genre and this video speaks to my heart 😊

4 years on, this is still an indelible masterpiece of KZread

Thank you so much, this is a work of love my friend and your effort it's highly appreciated.

Great video! It answered a lot of questions i didn’t even know i had. Been a fan of this music since several years now but it was a bit hard to search for it back then when you didn’t even know the genre name. Can’t wait for the next video you make, you put so much passion and research into them

I have found this retrospective with all the research and argumentation about the links between the two genres really interesting, needles to say that I've immediately subscribed Looking forward to other quality content like this!

Found your channel with this great video, can't wait to watch the rest of your catalouge 🥰

Man, found your channel after being recommended another video of yours, but this one caught my eye b/c I have found love with synthwave and future funk. Seeing this makes a whole lot more sense after all this time.

13:15 Shit, that's straight up Hall & Oates mixing the Mario theme with "I Can't Go for That".

@benjaminromanello3157

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought too

City Pop recommendations just "popped" into my feed in recent weeks... after years of listening to vintage and new retro synth music. Better late than never. I appreciate that someone on YT not only shares that interest but took the time to inform us on its origins.

So good. Your stuff is always a joy to watch and so enlightening!

Great work, as always. I like your positive approach to the cyclical theory of history, specifically, as it's often a pessimistic statement of the bad things coming back to haunt us. After listening to the playlist you posted, I was blown away by how influential City Pop was in building the global synthetic music aesthetic. I have heard those sounds in all sorts of music my whole life and thats the Genesis. What an invisible touch. 😘

Your content is so GOOD that I'm willing to wait forever to get just another taste. Thank you for everything.

Great video, love the editing and how well narrated and informative it was

Thank you for the hard work and dedication as always.

Just found your channel today and already one of my favorite video essay creators on here!

Please take attention to this another killer citypop tracks 1. NUDIST - KYOKO KOIZUMI 2. GIVE ME TABOO - YUIKO TSUBOKURA 3. CATCH ME - MIHO NAKAYAMA 4. PARTY NIGHT - AYA MATSUMOTO 5. GIVE ME UP - BaBe 6. CECILE NO AMAGASA - MARI IIJIMA 7. AQUAMARINE NO MAMA DE ITE - CARLOS TOSHIKI & OMEGA TRIBE 8. OLDER GIRL - CARLOS TOSHIKI & OMEGA TRIBE 9. KIMI HA 1000% - CARLOS TOSHIKI & OMEGA TRIBE 10. CRAZY FOR YOU - MARINA SAITO

I commend your usage of Hiroshi Nagai's artwork. Finally someone else who likes his stuff.

@gilespeterson6832

4 жыл бұрын

Kara of Mazov One of my favorite artists ever

This music makes me wish I could get a time machine and experience the bubble era first hand

This .. makes so much sense. And explain a feeling i was never able to address before. Thank you

This video made me cry with how fucking accurate it is.

Lol bro I’m crying!!!! Thanks for the ending, it really helped this morning. Get it Saba !!!

Yoooo THIS is the reason I love youtube :) Thank you for this trip through the past and ourselves

I just found City Pop about a year ago and I absolutely adore it! It's upbeat without being pulse pounding. It's a happy, smooth kind of music that's meant to be fun to listen to when you drive

As a Japanese, your pronunciation is very good. And this was a great introduction to City Pop. I grew up in the era in Japan, and did not fully internalize that the genre had a name, or it was Japanese only phenomenon. Now I hear some new music (Lover Boy, for example) and I was calling it nostalgic or retro for some reason, but I understand why that was. Never quite realized why all the anime music has "the sound", either. Very informative and interesting video. Thank you!

Great stuff dude, I’m a huge city pop fan and this video was just great. Keep it up!

Nice job, Michael! As a long-time enthusiast and participant in the City Pop scene since the late 70s in my various radio shows and recordings in Japan, I thoroughly enjoyed your well-researched presentation and the music and colorful videos within. "Dreaming in Neon!" what a great saying! Love it and have been dreaming in neon since the early 80s. Finally, I enjoyed your singing of "Sparkle" (the opening theme song of my daily M-F show on FM COCOLO) a few years back.

Really really insightful, as usual, good job man keep it up!

Thoughtful and thorough analysis of City Pop and Future Funk. Amazing job. I finally understand why this music I keep hearing yet had never seen before a few years ago is indeed so intimately familiar - a sonic Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

I'm so glad vinyls aren't region locked.

I wasn't expecting Michael to do that at the end. HAHA! Awesome. This was a lovely video my dude, keep up the good work!

Wow you really captures my natukashi on this one. Well put together! Thank you!

I finally have better context for why I love future funk thanks to this video great job great everything good storytelling definitely subscribing. Didn't realize how influential city pop was to anime and video games up until this point also great to hear about all the different city pop artists that make up the basis of the music that I listen to from young bay night tempo desired and macross

Hahhaaaa loved the singing in the end! And all the rest of the video! Great, thanks.

thank you so much to making this video, i remember when i am the only one in my circle who love to listening city pop and future funk genre but who care~ i am enjoyed it.

Great work man! Loved the video and was NOT EXPECTING YOU KARAOKEING AT THE END XD still loved it. Keep it up!

For me as someone who grew up in the 2000's (I'm currently 22) consuming 90's Anime like Shin-Chan and Ranma 1/2 as a kid definetly had a huge impact on me when it comes to nostalgia when I listen to citypop music. Ik that 90's and 80's are different (especially in japan since we're talking about the golden age and the lost decade) but I feel like in these anime I grew up with, there are still a lot of citypop vibes in it. So there has to be some kind of connection idk 🤷‍♂

@deki9827

Жыл бұрын

It's even more confusing for me, I was born in 2002 and I'm Indian. We only had a very few select anime to watch, which included stuff like Shinchan, Doraemon, Perman, KochiKame, etc. These do not have much of a city pop aesthetic tbh. But I still absolutely LOVE it for some reason. I heard it once, and knew I had to listen more. I don't have a car, nor do I like cars too much, but city pop still conjures the image of driving a car into the night for me. It's kinda magical really.

@hameedi229

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​@@deki9827try listening Kyoko Koizumi - Nudist

@animetwilight75

5 ай бұрын

I agree! I’m 25 now, grew up watching anime in the early 2000s and city pop reminds me of watching Inuyasha, Sailor Moon, etc like it shared the same vibes even those these anime didn’t come out in the 80s. I also felt like there was a connection somehow and couldn’t explain it so I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling this way lol

I've probably watched this video 50 times, and recommended it about that many times as well. You inspired me to talk about Natsukashii in my own videos. What an interesting concept! If I could only take 10 youtube videos with me to a desert island, this is one of 'em.

Fantastic stuff. Been listening to this stuff on and off all summer, between watching old anime OVAs of that period. I guess it's true, I am nostalgic for something I wasn't even around for. Thanks for making this video. Traditional media would have never made the time to make even a short-form documentary about something like this. Only now do we finally have a chance to have something for everyone.

OMG THAT LAST BIT I COULDN'T HOLD MYSELF I SANG THE WHOLE THING WITH YOU I'M GLAD I FOUND THIS VIDEO!! CITY POP IS THE BEST!

@Prince0Fmidnight

3 жыл бұрын

What song was that?

This video was really an awesome recommendation for once, thanks a lot for this video!

Good video. Thanks for the solo at the end. Nothing moves me like seeing another human display passion

what a great short documentary! will definitely be checking for other content

New subscriber and love the content. Some of the best essays on KZread

i wish i could come up with a more formative statement about this video, but simply put i love it lmao. it’s nice to see a video essay about a music genre that’s underground but gaining popularity

Finally someone who put it in words when I couldn’t. Thank you for making this video friend.

Excellent work. And you just might be the first person to include Morikawa Miho (my favorite Japanese artist of all-time, but she was never that well-known) in a City Pop video. I've been listening to City Pop since the mid-80's as a teenager, except the term "City Pop" didn't exist back then, as it was coined decades later. Back then, I always referred to it as "Vacation Pop" whenever I made cassette mixtapes for friends, because that's what the music felt like to me, conveying the kind of mood you'd feel while on a vacation, cruising down the street with the beach boardwalk to one side, and gleaming skyscrapers on the other, or driving towards the neon glow of the night city, where exciting possibilities await you. I was obsessed with anime, manga, J-pop/rock, J-dramas/movies, etc., and I'm glad I got to experience that era in real-time. I only got to visit Japan once around 1983, and it was an amazing experience. During that era I lived in the Bay Area, so I made frequent pilgrimages to Japan Town in San Francisco, where I got to browse and shop all the most recent Japanese music, magazines, books, Cassettes, VHS tapes, Laserdiscs, posters, etc., and the video/CD rental shops allowed me to experience all kinds of stuff without breaking the bank. When the 90's came and the sound I loved went away, I lamented the shift in tone in J-pop, and was not a fan of the whole Komuro Tetsuya produced/Avex label/Nami Amuro Euro-dance movement that took over, as it simply felt cold and unromantic to me. Decades later, I was ecstatic when the City Pop revival happened, and the sound I loved starting showing up again. Just last year, my favorite album of 2020 was Yukika's "Soul Lady," which is a Korean City Pop album made by a Japanese singer. It's like everything just went full circle.

Jesus Christ, just in the first few minutes you have me instantly hooked. Subscribed

u are the best man never saw so detailed and long but so intresting video thank u for this

I shit you not, Now and Forever was my first future funk song as well and is what got me hooked to the genre and city pop. Thanks for this amazing video :D

Awesome video again!!!

What a great perspective on City Pop! Thank you!

Great video, you gave context to the surge of Future Funk and that's awesome!

This is why I listen to citypop, the sound and instrumentals of the music I grew up to. The originality of it. It had soul, the vocals were amazing and that beautiful nostalgia I feel keeps me listening.

Great video. The ending was just icing on the cake.

For me futurefunk was my favorite discovery in the vaporwave scene. Once I started listening to Macross 82-99 I was down the rabbit hole and before I knew it I owned a pile of futurefunk vinyls and cassettes. Props for making a video fam, I will gladly take anything promoting this beautiful genre. And also props for talking about the timing of it, it's a musical trend of wanting to go back to simpler times and serves as a wonderful reprise from the hectic dystopia we live in. I should note that I was already a city pop fan going into futurefunk. One day my KZread feed was infected by the junko ohashi song telephone, then came plastic love and a whole myriad of city pop. And I would have never clicked it if someone didn't make the telephone awoo touhou meme.

here before the 100.000 views mark. Great content and edition, keep going man. natsukashi must be the equivalent of "saudade", the portuguese term for the feeling of missing something or someone.

Just barely missed the premiere but damn am I happy this is back up

This is some great content; thank you for this man.