What it is, what to hear first, and what sits next to it.
In the early 1980s, with the spread of car stereos, the term City Pop (シティーポップ Shitī Poppu?) came to describe a type of popular music that had a big city theme. Tokyo in particular inspired many songs of this form, but more especially the 1960s reverb-drenched wall of sound production styles made famous by studio auteurs Phil Spector and Brian Wilson. During this time, music fans and artists in Japan were influenced by album-oriented rock (especially Adult contemporary) and crossover (especially Jazz fusion). .