Music is an intensely subjective thing.
That is why music that satisfies everyone does not exist.
However, music that satisfies the majority can exist, and making that kind of music was what I did best.
The title track of my second album was It's me.
I added the stylistic grammar of city pop, but the atmosphere itself was not particularly overt.
The song's foundation sounds like popular, well-made pop, but the brass instruments and retro synth sessions layered over it plainly reveal its resemblance to city pop as a genre.
City pop is not popular.
Its roots lie in 1970s Japan, and as an old genre, it does not fit the current zeitgeist.
The kind of music the times demanded was clear.
It had to be easy listening suited to short-form videos like challenges and easy on the ears...
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