一番歌：古い快作１(Ichiban uta: Furui Kaisaku 1)

[Chante™]

JAPANESE NF FOR RWWWSC #103

東京都, 二十五日 十一月 - Following the confirmation of Japan in RWWWSC #101,  Japan has opened up a nf for the 103rd edition. The songs are as follows

these artists will all represent japan sometime soon, but now you can choose when it'll be (and potentially which song too)

ドレスダウン ー 秋元薫 (Dress Down by Akimoto Kaoru) {1986} [2:16+]



真夜中のドア ー 松原みき (Mayonaka no Door by Matsubara Miki) {1979} [2:24+]



秋桜 ー 山口百恵 (Kosumosu by Yamaguchi Momoe) {1977} [2:50+]



水色の雨 ー 八神純子 (Mizuiro no Ame by Yagami Junko) {1979} [2:17+]



1986年のマリリン ー 本田美奈子 (1986nen no Marilyn by Honda Minako) {1986} [2:35+]

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_{Shovkovskyi/Peter ▪ Gilberto ▪ mimisthesc ▪ ferrygraf ▪ Julian ▪ тнєяσиттi95 ▪ Hayastantzi92 ▪ nijat ▪ Fatih ▪ ferret ▪ Alex Memphis ▪ ᴛᴏᴍ ᴋʟᴏsᴇʀ ▪ Basti(án) ▪ Francisco ▪ Chante™ ▪ Wen-hsuan ▪ malteser ▪ Aleks ▪ @antonija ▪ MaRtIn ▪ iseendale ▪ fabbi ▪ panchin ▪ njegosh ▪ superjonno ▪ italix ▪ Vinx ▪ inactivo (nq era) ▪ Domantas ▪ xmultivision - Semi-Active ▪ Batman Beyond ▪ Þórir ▪ @eriethioesc ▪ Argüello}

[Fatih]

トルコが投票しました。

[fabbi]

From what I heard they're pretty similar (and judging from what I heard I can't even tell them apart ... :/ ) - and in a style I can see myself voting for. Also I didn't want to be the one voting for all songs I decided on #1, #4, and #5.

[Shovkovskyi/Peter]

voted

[Chante™]

Dec 17, 2020 22:48:33 GMT 1 fabbi said:

From what I heard they're pretty similar (and judging from what I heard I can't even tell them apart ... :/ ) - and in a style I can see myself voting for. Also I didn't want to be the one voting for all songs I decided on #1, #4, and #5.

welcome to city pop lol

[fabbi]

Jan 4, 2021 17:11:31 GMT 1 Chante™ said:

Dec 17, 2020 22:48:33 GMT 1 fabbi said:

From what I heard they're pretty similar (and judging from what I heard I can't even tell them apart ... :/ ) - and in a style I can see myself voting for. Also I didn't want to be the one voting for all songs I decided on #1, #4, and #5.

welcome to city pop lol

What's city pop? lol

[Chante™]

Jan 4, 2021 22:36:32 GMT 1 fabbi said:

Jan 4, 2021 17:11:31 GMT 1 Chante™ said:

welcome to city pop lol

What's city pop? lol

i’ll let wikipedia answer that

Definitions of "city pop" have varied and many of the artists tagged with the genre have played in styles that are significantly different from each other.[2] Yutaka Kimura, an author of numerous books about city pop, defined the genre as "urban pop music for those with urban lifestyles."[8] In 2015, Ryotaro Aoki wrote in The Japan Times:

The term was originally used to describe an offshoot of the emerging Western-influenced "new music" of the 1970s and ’80s. "City pop" referred to the likes of Sugar Babe [ja] and Eiichi Ohtaki, artists who scrubbed out the Japanese influences of their predecessors and introduced the sounds of jazz and R&B — genres said to have an "urban" feel — to their music. ... The term has drifted in and out of the musical lexicon ever since. ... With a term as vague and broad as city pop, it’s natural that no one seems to be agreeing on what the label actually means anymore."[2]
Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone concurred that city pop was "less a strict genre term than a broad vibe classification."[1] According to Japan Archival Series supervisor Yosuke Kitazawa, there "were no restrictions on style or a specific genre that we wanted to convey with these songs" but that it "was music made by city people, for city people."[1] Kitazawa identified two distinct styles that exemplified city pop: "the former a lush, tropical romp, the latter a thumping rug-cutter".[1]

“Pitchfork's Joshua Minsoom Kim called it "a vague descriptor for Japanese music that incorporated jazz and R&B",[4] while PopMatters' Chris Ingalls categorized it as "a type of soft rock/AOR/funk".[9] Wax Poetics' Ed Motta offered, "City Pop is really AOR and soft rock but with some funk and boogie too. Because when you hear funkier City Pop tunes, you hear not only the influence, but in some parts they steal from groups like Skyy, BB&Q Band, and those kinda American boogie and funk groups."[3] An Electronic Beats writer characterized city pop as Japan's "answer to synth pop and disco".[5]”