Hi Hi, do you have a habit of listening to City Pop?
City Pop in NetEase Cloud and Shrimp Mi, has been popular for two or three years, if you like music you do not know what is City Pop, you may be outdated.
We've also written about what city pop is in the past, a type of Japanese pop that appeared in the late 1970s and mid-1990s.
In short, it is like a glass of Japanese whiskey, with Western elements such as Funk (Funk), Soul (Soul) and even Disco from Europe and the United States, but also a fusion of the lightness and beauty of Japanese pop music from the Showa and Heisei eras, and is called "Japanese music from the West".
City Pop Daimyo, kikuchi Peach 'ADVENTURE' cover, the sea, the evening, the glow, endless pleasure
At first, 40 years ago, there was no name for "City Pop" in Japan, and at that time, the Japanese called it "New Music".
During the decade-long period of Japan's economy in the 1980s, people only managed to make a lot of money, easily, and spend a lot of money. It was a time when there was no worry and no worry about the future.
This kind of music came into being, just like a mirror, and also illuminated the background of the heisei era of drunken gold fans and drunken dreams.
The original CD cover of the 90s comic book masterpiece "City Hunter", which is also very City Pop: handsome men and women, urban night
What a fascinating time it was, when society, whether economic or cultural, was booming and thriving. And the future? Not in the field of concern at all.
Is it like today's China, like today's world?
So City Pop is intoxicating, like a hallucinogen, and as long as you immerse yourself in it, you can forget all the unpleasant things in your life and just indulge in the colorful, colorful old Heisei era.
That's why a lot of people love City Pop, like this kind of music from the old times.
"We stare in the rearview mirror at the present, going backwards into the future."
This "rearview mirror theory" by Canadian communication scientist Herbert Marshall McLuhan has become a well-known quote for those who like City Pop.
If you're planning to indulge in it, today we're going to introduce you to the latest City Pop Song.
In the City Pop world, there are many divine comedies, the number one on the chart, no doubt released in 1984, "Plastic Love" by Maria Takeuchi (竹内まりや).
This is the Middle Ages About Gun Divine Comedy, written about a young girl who constantly rotates male companions. Love is not the goal, just be happy.
Don't use that sudden kiss or hot eyes
The formula that drives love
Skillfully manipulating encounters and partings
Don't hurry, which takes a while to settle!
From the day I was hurt by love
And he continued to live day and night upside down
On the occasion of the popular Disco dance until dawn
All that remains in your mind is just an illusion I'm sorry!
Don't really fall in love with me
The so-called love is just a game
It's enough to have fun and enjoy
This 1984 "scumbag" song was spread on the Internet by YouTube netizens in 2017, and it accidentally became popular, like dropping an atomic bomb, which has since triggered a global City Pop boom.
People found that these songs, written in the 1980s, were not outdated years later, like new songs.
Because, the future of the 20th century, is the present, The Future Is Now.
"Plastic Love" has long dominated the first place of city pop divine comedy, and last year, this status was finally kicked away.
This is a 1979, Miki Matsubara's "Midnight Door with me".
Miki Matsubara
The song suddenly stood out last fall as a streaming favorite.
More than 40 years later, it suddenly made it to the J-pop list and Spotify's global pop list in 98 countries of Apple Music, and topped the Spotify UK list at the end of last year.
It's simply amazing.
A relatively unfamiliar name for those who love City Pop, the Osaka-born female singer who died of cancer in 2004 and left few albums.
"Midnight Door - Stay with me" Sketch, This Is a Poem
To you
Yes my love
To you, you
I am me, you are you
I'm you and you
In the paradoxical memory of last night, I said these words
I said last night, I feel like that.
Gray jacket
On a grey jacket.
The familiar coffee stain on top
I'm familiar with the coffee stains.
Nothing has changed
You're still going to do that.
The light and shadow of two people on the glass window
If you see them in the show window,
Stay with me...
Slamming the door late at night
Knocking on the midnight door
I cried and said don't go
I cried that I didn't go home.
That season is just around the corner
That season is right now.
Say the mantra
Humbing
The moment of embracing the two of them together
Holding your moment
Have not forgotten to treasure all the time
I still didn't forget it, I cherished it.
Falling in love and falling in love are two different things
Love and love are different things.
Last night's plausible memory, you said this to me
I feel like I was told last night.
After your heart leaves
The second winter is coming
The second winter came
Your heart away
Looking back always
Whenever I look back
It feels like you're still there
I felt you there.
There is a hole in the heart
There was a hole in my heart.
To be less lonely
I'm lonely.
Lower the dish needle
The needle of the record that I put
The same tone is repeated all the time
The same melody was repeated...
Have not forgotten that it has been warm
I still haven't forgotten, I'm warming it up.
(I haven't forgotten yet, I've warmed it up.)
Translated by Guo Xiaoxuan
Midnight Door with me?
One is the song itself, the standard style of City Pop, like a foggy 80s dream, with a simple and repetitive melody that is unforgettable.
Another is that the "words and eyes" in the song are in English, and the "Stay with me..." is constantly repeated, which makes Western listeners feel kind and easy to accept.
Of course, its popularity is also related to the huge number of cover songs on YouTube, especially the cover of a little sister in Indonesia, which has been hit by millions of hits on YouTube and is one of the most popular Videos on YouTube last year.
Like most City Pop singers, Miki Matsubara was not popular when she debuted in the early 1900s.
In the 1990s, Yoshiki Matsubara stopped singing until her death from cervical cancer in 2004.
Probably she did not expect that her debut song in 1979 would become popular again 40 years later.
Miki Matsubara died in 2004, and many people on Facebook set up a nostalgia group for her
If you also like or plan to like City Pop, keep an eye out for her name (although her album is hard to buy, it can be heard on streaming platforms). ）
The good news is that because the song became popular, the Japanese side decided to re-release it, and it went on sale in a limited edition on February 17
City Pop is like a box of colorful candy, and every time it is opened, there is a surprise.
It allows you to temporarily detach yourself from reality and plunge into a foggy, colorful world.
If you also miss that old world.
I actually have this CD, made my day!
This article was first published in the Adventure Movie: Cinematik
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