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The thing about music genres is that they are not easy to define and divide neatly, one by one.

Even when defining Korean idol music, people combine various genres, such as electropop and synth-pop, and give the result a name.

Japanese band music was similar in that regard.

City pop, too, became harder to distinguish by genre boundaries upon entering the twenty-first century.

Basically, if something feels roughly like city pop, you can insist that it is city pop, and it becomes city pop.

Conversely, even when no one claims something is city pop, people may hear a similar feeling and think, “Isn’t this city pop?”

That is why Koreans have less aversion to modern-feeling city pop than one might expect.

When listening casually, they simply thought it felt a little retro and did not pay much attention to the specific genre.

However, It's me was somewhat more strongly colored by city pop than ordinary pop music merely wearing a city-pop mask.

That said, it was not enough to put Koreans off...