The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of City Pop

[@adammasterx5854]

How is this video so well produced but so unknown? This is legitimately some of the best editing I’ve ever seen on this platform.

[@justnickplease5756]

The reason is tf2

[@kittenlitter1]

RIGHT??? i love the editing so much

[@Maxsmack]

He posts tops once a month, usually once in 2 months, and recently he went 6 months without uploading. All his videos are less than 4-8 minutes long, and he’s got less than 20 on his channel, for 110 minutes of watch time. It’s easy to see why the algorithm isn’t pushing his channel, but he could easily get there with a break out video, and posting once weekly. The quality might suffer, but that’ll be a decision for him to make.

[@adammasterx5854]

@@Maxsmack nah im fine with hin uploading at his own pace, the quality that he brings makes it up tenfold

[@Groovyboi1999]

​@@Maxsmack"there's purity in obscurity"

[@ShiftingGrin]

I love this genre. Tatsuro Yamashita quickly shot up to my personal top five, and I went out of my way to get an artbook of Hiroshi Nigai's work because his use of colors on all of his album covers captured the joy of a Japanese summer in the 80s perfectly.

[@hameedi229]

Please listen to this my personal Carlos Toshiki Fav Tracks! 1. Aquamarine No Mama De ite 2. Kimi ha 1000% 3. Older Girl

[@yush158]

the amount of effort put in this video is unreal. its soo fucking good. keep up the good work bro

[@hard.to.define]

The best genre ever, change my mind.

[@sir_vaughn2018]

I can’t

[@-whyquestion]

We can’t

[@Benevoltt]

That was one of the most well-crafted 4:42 of video and audio I have ever experienced, please keep up the good work!

[@lucasc5622]

you clearly have not experienced " MY NAME JEFF MEME FUNNY VINE COMPILATION 7 (Top Vines)"

[@cxsxnxvx]

That troll was classic

[@zonalibrer3357]

City Pop Is a simply a different name for *Japanese 80 R&B* . Is like the same thing with 40s/50s R&B was called "Rock n Roll", the estoy 90s british New Funk was called 'Acid Jazz' ..and so.

[@-whyquestion]

I love this comment so much

[@pedrob3953]

"City Pop" is a completely Western branding of a Japanese interpretation of American R&B, a "discovery" of a sound which died at the end of the 1980s. It has been given a new cultural identity totally from a Western point of view. It's pure Orientalism.

[@loadishstone]

@@pedrob3953Motherfucking bingo. Not to mention the exoticism perpetuated where Japanese musicians doing something Black Americans do is suddenly more interesting because of their “Japaneseness.” But this kind to intersectional racism (lol) is very common in pop music.

[@Koth_Viaduct]

Very common steinful W

[@sasukesarutobi3862]

Great video. And the influence of City Pop is spreading to other artists as well, such as Jenevieve's "Baby Powder" sampling Anri's "Last Summer Whisper", or just Ginger Root in general (their videos and music are heavily influenced by City Pop and the time period).

[@bobmcob1132]

Felt like all the relevant information of a 40 minute video essay in four minutes, all with insanely good editing, keep it up!

[@thirtyonepigeons9539]

Right?! It was super well-made :)

[@queuedjar4578]

I'm really impressed myself. Anyone could have stretched this out for another 4 hour long "short retrospective" but getting the ideas, aesthetic, and message nailed to a T in a short amount of time is very refreshing.

[@dubzb6609]

Vapor wave honestly deserves a lot more credit

[@Rook418]

this is one of the best edited and produced videos ive ever seen and talking about citypop no less? youve got my sub

[@iTuber012]

Feels like Black American music with Japanese touch. It's it's very well done I actually prefer Stay with Me over plastic love.... Along with Windy Summer... Last Summer Whisper

[@Wigion]

awesome video

[@speeddecline160]

Love how much time you put into these! great work! Also, its so awesome how you put busdriver at 0:55, one of my favorite underated music artists.

[@TouchBaseBeats]

This is such amazing work in every way. Well done!

[@Dynvpse]

Your channel has SO MUCH potential and it‘s only a matter of time until you blow up. Awesome work on this (and your other) videos!

[@JoeBroo]

hi steinful, i know you're not gonna read this comment, but as an aspiring editor, the way you mass-precomp is so amazing! your editing skills make everything seamless! layers upon layers with compositing techniques that make every frame a painting! color choices, blurring to establish fore/backgrounds, constant movement, highlight/shadows, i could go on-and-on. i applaud you for your work and will constantly use you as a reference to study. thank you for making all of your outstanding videos and i hope to see many more to come. keep doing your thing and keep on rocking in the free world.

[@steinful]

This is the nicest comment I’ve received thank you for noticing what other people don’t ❤️

[@satangpawat]

i like your video editing

[@LoseMillion]

Your videos are REALLY good!

[@KirbyJason210]

One of the best videos about City Pop...... period.

[@zanamarana]

your editing just makes me wanna do more things with my life

[@econtadini]

beautiful video

[@elbeto2446]

TEACH ME YOUR EDITING ONE OF THE BEST IVE SEEN TBH!

[@Saledamo]

there's a youtube channel channel called jummy koproto, who put compiled a bunch of city pop songs. unfortunately almost all of his videos got removed a few months ago. listening to those always made my day better, and im so glad he got me into city pop :)

[@AlfonsoNeilJimenezCasallas]

this music genre has been my favorite last years from 2021, it's an amazing experience to listen those masterpieces!

[@dolislin]

michael jackson is to thank for influencing japan

[@BigTendyT]

Bruh this is my favorite channel now- Banger after banger fr

[@Mika0lo]

Dude your production of this vid is great

[@Redrover14]

Amazing video!!! So well written and the editing is amazing!

[@bobbynobody1]

Thank you, A new City Pop music fan here

[@NonEuclideanTacoCannon]

There are many paths to city pop and nostalgia for a time and place you never experienced. For me, I already loved Japanese jazz and funk from the 70s, and many of those musicians pivoted to city pop in the 80s. I love Japanese motorsports culture as well, and all these things are interconnected. A booming economy means fast cars, after all. As far as modern artists go, Ginger Root just keeps cranking out the bangers.

[@milo6007]

Love your editing my man I strive for even a third of that

[@rkon.760]

after seeing steinful's worldcorp video and these, i deem him one of my favorite channels!!

[@colin3504]

Love the creative editing style

[@beegchief6872]

Dude i fucking loved the visual presentation on this one, keep it up

[@porterjan8198]

As soon as i found this genre of music i immediately moved to Japan... I regret nothing

[@zingularity1386]

I can't put into words how jealous I am

[@gyalgyal]

either you're lying or you're really stupid

[@confusion7809]

god tier editing

[@KrispyMoist]

How does this video have less than 2000 views? this is amazing!

[@tralhas]

City Pop is my new obsession and I don't care. I'm surfing it.

[@userandresearcher1036]

I discovered this genre about a year ago and since then, it has become one of my top favourite genres of music. There's just something really iconic about the audio quality and indistinguishable sound of it, making it so unique. To me, it's a mix of happiness and relaxation that it gives me when listening to. Just driving my car on a hot summer day or night while listening to City Pop has become one of my favourite activities...

[@stratojim473]

Incredible work as usual on this video, Steinful. You make such high quality, concise, beautifully edited music content - keep it up!

[@ChicaneEP3]

The algorithm doing its magic. Fantastic video. No fluff, great editing, great voiceover. New sub earned. ❤

[@atr7967]

That's crazy ,2017 is exactly when I discovered this genre of music🔥🔥

[@JITA]

Don't worry, ill re-popularize it again :)

[@schnabulin268]

holy shit this is well edited

[@jachimikedenis]

It really nice seeing someone who also enjoys citypop like I do. Also this video is very well edited.

[@AmbientWalking]

I LOVE CITY POP.

[@foxkocreates]

great video. As a big fan of synthwave, vaporwave, outrun and hyperpop I'm surprised at myself for taking so long to really look and listen into this genre. Falling in love with those previous mentioned genres have been some of the best music years of my life and I'm so excited to start listening and learning more about city pop. Thanks for sharing your insights.

[@nordineelbarkaoui9613]

Nah bro this video need more views, i never comment nor like videos but i really enjoyed yours.

[@Zorksus]

[steinful] enterprises delivers once again

[@EndicLive]

this is like a 10 000 dollar candy for eyes and ears.

[@emanueleforti6016]

it's the first time a see one of your videos and your style of montage makes me crazy, its just so good

[@hansfranken9290]

This is one of the best music videos I have ever seen in my life.

[@torr152]

the editing is too great for 15k views, this video deserves 1m

[@-whyquestion]

City pop so fye bro and great wonderful vid

[@lol-uc9rj]

all of your videos are so well edited and entertaining

[@johanalzate9317]

Dude this video was incredibly well narrated and EXTREMELY well edited, ily

[@BrothArabianHSHS]

Thank you so much for making this video!!!!! I get nostalgic becuase most citypop was featured in older anime, especially in Asia!!! So much childhood memoriesssss

[@GetLower]

Oh you finished it, nice!

[@cytoplasm7015]

yo this editing is godly man

[@marzy_music]

genuinely incredible editing!

[@chuumoru9599]

this has gotta be one of my favorite videos on youtube, i discovered citypop a few years back and completely fell in love with it

[@bubblegumidols]

I loved this video sooo much

[@AceLllLDraken]

Why the hell does my man only have 28 k subs

[@GhostBuster__]

This god editing and explaining deserve our subs

[@Dryfloorsign]

i sometimes forget how good your editing is holy shit

[@TheHansen01]

WOW! This video is absolutely insane, amazing job!

[@keneola]

EyePatchWolf guy, I love your video and your new second channel. I love your perspective and dissection of culture so please keep making these music focused videos.

[@OverEclipse]

74,880 views, Japanese city pop just makes you think some times

[@william-uc2oy]

Very well done. Hit on some of the reasons city pop was so icon. We all totally missed it here in the US. But here we are over 40 years later and rediscover it in all its glory. I’m 68 and look back and think what a brilliant genre that just passed me by.

[@mizannudinhardiyansyah4117]

Japan in 80's is nowadays Korea. They are in the peak of their economic era.

[@cavernofmusic3657]

Great video, love how short yet sweet it was.

[@SuperMyacc]

How does this gave only 50k? You tube wtf. I found it on Tiktok and instantly came here to subscibe!

[@tastefullynerdy1161]

You earned yourself a sub, that was a fantastic video.

[@amantedelcane420]

It only took me some 4+ decades to discover "city pop"...& I'm hooked! Better late than never. 🎉

[@Marian87]

I had discovered city pop quite a few years prior to 2017, but it didn't have a name, it was just 80s Japanese music to me. I had first massively started watching anime in 2010 and pretty soon discovered cool soundtracks from 80s anime like, Macross, Megazone 23, bubblegum crisis, etc and then I found a few playlists with 80s Japanese music on the 8track site. The site used to host the music, it was different then it is now. Aside from those playlist there was a blog that would comment and upload on youtube various idol music from the 80s. So i was aware of the music that became branded as citypop, but 2017 was like an explosion, so many new awesome melodies appeared.

[@AwkCrafty]

YESSS YOU FINISHED THE VIDEO!!!!!! Such a great video and genre of music. City pop is part of the reason why I fell in love Japan as a country and is why I'm also doing a Japanese language course. I love City-Pop what can I say?

[@hikaru-senpai3684]

I love how your videos are edited so much!!!!

[@Karateka1973]

This is a totally awesome video, from the editing, the content, and the subject matter itself. To answer the question of "why does this music slap so hard?" The answer is actually quite simple. it's real music. There's no auto tune. There's no trap rapper dropping whack ass unrelated lyrics on the track. There are real instruments and real musicianship on every song. The singers can actually sing and don't have to rely on the engineers to fake it. City Pop blended jazz, funk, R&B, California Beach, and disco flawlessly. It was an amalgamation of genres just as disco was. Good music is timeless. People are getting tired of trap music, mumble rap, WAP and everyone sounding the same.

[@ijansk]

I'm realising City Pop has a certain relaxing effect on me. It helps me ease my mind from the stress caused by work.

[@de-ment]

I've constantly exited and re-entered the phase of listening to old pop-rock songs from Turkish (my) tradition/history. These are mostly regarded as their own genre but some of the more older ones are most commonly called "Türkü"s. My most recent delve, especially fuelled by a recently popularized youtuber's ""theme"" song being a viatnamese old pop song, I've tried delving into the more asian sides of this genre of old pop music and have eventually stumbled onto city-pop, not being able to delve in further as it was the most popular among them. I'm essentially trying to discover if other asian countries, especially around the oceanic geography and not exclusively japan have these old local pop music from the 60's through 90's but have yet to find much...

[@a-0624]

You edit is sooooo cool i love it

[@SLICKOMODE]

beautiful video brother!

[@melaniejiang4200]

this is such a well produced video!

[@PilaJones]

Ride the algorithm steinful! I love your adhd eyecandy yet informative videos.

[@Def_Yoyo]

I fuckin love this video man keep up this amazing work I love all the new music videos.

[@broccolidood5695]

Gonna be honest, never much cared for music but your 2 recent videos exude so much passion and care that I can't help but agree, I can't wait to see your next work of art

[@averypennington1506]

Actually a fire video bro. Your editing is clean

[@yasinkirschstein4331]

Dude i love your videos. keep it up and advertise this channel more!

[@vap0rw1se]

HOW DOES THIS ONLY HAVE 24K VIEWS????

[@AnnaSue81]

hot damn stein, you managed to top yourself yet again, good one man

[@justconnorXD]

The editing is so amazing it doesn’t feel like one person is making this

[@steinful]

I pay 40 children in China to work in a sweatshop to make these videos

[@justconnorXD]

What a coincidence, I have 80 grinding in my favorite gacha games

[@ZetaVec]

Toshiki Kadomatsu and Anri were my first introduction to city pop Toshiki’s summer rommance album and Anri’s heaven beach album will always have a place in my heart

[@ximenalafken7305]

WOW nice intro, totally love your video since the start

[@fonsocat4517]

0:17 holy shit that absolutely blew my mind

[@jorgeanimates4443]

I appreciate this video so much

[@citypopgyal7706]

OMG THANK U SO MUCH FOR THIS ❤ IF IM ALIVE ITS JUST BC CITYPOP❤

[@kamauz4]

Bro I just can’t get enough of city pop man

[@scpdatabase69420]

1:55 That pop song intro gave me flashbacks to that one video of the cat dancing

[@chrisbullock3504]

W O W. what a great video, beautiful editing, definitely reminds me of mr. amazing's future funk video. I've been a city pop fan for 3 years now and the first time I ever heard it in public I lost my shit. great video man