Recently, I've been listening to a lot of "City Pop" music, after YouTube kept recommending this old 1984 Japanese song to me and I finally decided to click it:
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...And I'm glad I clicked, because it turned out to be a timeless funky/jazzy/synthy masterpiece. And it introduced me to a whole new genre of music, City Pop (although I had previously heard city-pop music before in some old '80s anime). But it seems like YouTube has been recommending this song to a lot of people for some reason.
After listening to '80s Japanese city pop, I've also started getting into modern city-pop-style revival genres like Vaporwave and Future Funk. Although the original '80s city-pop is still better than the modern revivals.
Right now I'm into a lot of 90's pop music. Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Nsync..even the Pokemon The First Movie Soundtrack. AS CHEESY AS THAT IS. lol.
Yeah, "Plastic Love" is definitely up there among the best pop songs of all time. I feel Japanese pop music peaked with city pop in the '80s and Shibuya-kei in the '90s.
That EXO song sounds funky and catchy... Not quite the cheesy K-pop song I was expecting.
@Jag85: Thanks for listening to. EXO has really strong discography, but their title tracks are usually very bad in order to satisfy expectations of fans there in Korea.
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