Saury Issue 37 Do you love City Pop?

Welcome to 1970's — Music and rhythm are the most real feelings. If pop culture is a kind of collective consciousness, when the craze recedes, the key to whether it can become "long-lasting" is the reawakening after precipitation. "City Pop" is a perfect demonstration. For some people, Japanese music in the 1980s is a dance hall memory of their youth; for people born in the 90s, the music that sounds "retro" is a new feeling. ; The same song has different expressions of co-creation in the 21st century. Just like the romantic feelings of magazine people always say: "Magazine is the epitome of the times." Until I flipped on a vinyl in a Japanese record store and listened to a Japanese album I had never heard before, I suddenly got a little excited and jealous; Excitedly, after being dusted off by the "excavated" old albums, they shine like Gemstone; jealously, old songs are like old magazines, and they can sing culture and fashion with notes. In the digital age of "likes to broadcast", if it wasn't for the process of digging vinyl, I would not have known Yusaku Matsuda with a strong voice; and I would not have known that Tatsuro Yamashita was the time when I was fascinated by Johnny's idol, and KinKi Kids debuted "The Glass" The lyricist and songwriter of "No Boys"; not to mention that "Plastic Love", which has tens of millions of views, is not only a classic song by Maria Takeuchi, but also a popular cover song by Hong Kong star Anita Mui. For a time, magazines and vinyl were like brothers, one using words and the other using singing to record the most fascinating outlines of the era. The vinyls that have been piled up in the depths of memory, because the streaming platform broke the carrier boundary and redefine the term "City Pop" that did not exist in those days; Finally, it settled in Japan with a new attitude. The time capsule of the last century was opened, and the sound of 2022 overlapped into a two-track creation spanning the century. I really envy people in the next 50 years, who will be able to re-precipitate, bringing the creations of these two eras, and feel the imagination of modern Japan's cities. This inspiring journey to become popular once again proves that no matter how long a good creation is silent, it will eventually be seen. In order to record the new melody of "City Pop" in this generation, this issue invites well-known Japanese music critic Yuji Shibasaki to write about the evolution of Japanese music for Taiwan for the first time, and directly hit TOWER RECORDS and HMV record shop, the halls of Japanese record shops, and an exclusive interview to lay a music picture The wind artists Hiroshi Nagai and Hideto Suzuki also invited the music columnist dato to be the guest editor, and the music critics compose our songs from the perspective of Taiwanese music. And after many years, he reunited with Yogee New Waves to talk about the influence of music in the 1980s on Japanese creators; the second visit to Sunset Speed, Elephant Gymnastics, and the excitement after their performances in Japan, and from Huang Jie's Taiwan-Japan cooperation single, Hear how music pushes down borders. Swing freely! As Yamashita Tatsuro sang in "Loveland, Island": "The original desert-like street has become an oasis in the south." City Pop is like an oasis in this era, looking forward to the most free and unrestrained imagination in the dream of music. meet.