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City Pop

Literal Translation
A style of Japanese popular music from the 1970s and 80s — smooth, synthesiser-driven, sonically influenced by American funk and soft rock with distinctly Japanese melodic sensibilities. Subject of a global streaming revival from approximately 2018. Mariya Takeuchi's "Plastic Love" is the canonical text.