She’s become obsessed, posting dozens of city pop covers and using it partly as a way to connect with her Japanese family members, who recognize the music from their youth.

Essentially, city pop is Western music that’s been adapted by the Japanese, now coming back to us as a retrospective source of fascination. The head of the internet music label Business Casual ...

Van Paugam in 2019 and at Murasaki Sake Lounge in 2018 Credit: Courtesy the artist Van Paugam, 36, is a DJ who specializes in the 70s and 80s Japanese jazz, disco, funk, and fusion records ...

One of the latest and perhaps most chilling AI invasions involves city pop, the amorphous genre of glitzy late ’70s and ’80s Japanese pop music that became an online obsession in the West in ...

City pop has always been a particularly weird viral phenomenon. As Cat Zhang previously wrote for Pitchfork, the genre originally pulled from American styles like funk and yacht rock and aimed for a ...