28/11/2020
Tonight’s show is probably one of my favorites. City Pop Edition.
What is City Pop?
City pop (シティ・ポップ, sh*tī poppu) is a loose category of Japanese pop music that emerged in the late 1970s and peaked in the 1980s. It was originally termed as an offshoot of Japan's Western-influenced "new music", but came to include a wide range of styles associated with the country's leisure class and nascent economic boom, such as AOR, soft rock, R&B, funk, and boogie. It was also identified with new technologies such as the Walkman, cars with built-in cassette decks and FM stereos, and various electronic musical instruments.
So here is a musical time machine, taking us to the 80’s Japan. Break out your Walkman, and feel the vibes of Tokyo. Stream at whupfm.org