>>6549063It's not that special, it's a very comfortable and inoffensive 80s city pop song. It's city pop at its most accessible. It's a lightly melancholic ballad, drenched in reverb and a cute idol singer with a nice voice.
It's important to recognize that city pop isn't really a monolithic entity, city pop started in the 1970s and lasted until the early 90s, with heavy variance between the styles. What most people recognize as city pop today is just the 80s portion, which incidentally is the most straight forward of the bunch.
The 70s and 90s both saw a LOT of experimentation, the former to figure out what the genre even is and the latter to figure out where to take it. Early city pop had a LOT of jazz and yeye influence and both of them were subsequently reduced for a more electronic sound (largely championed by YMO in 1978 with their release of Pacific), while also being streamlined to be more pop-oriented.
There's a LOT more to city pop than the few songs the youtube algorithm spams at you, especially at the fringes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmR9OyAsWS0Also, on a note that is completely unrelated, except that it's also Japan and the 1980s, go listen to Togawa Jun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQkG-5M0qd8>>6564351The shibuya-kei influence really sells what would otherwise be a fairly forgettable neo-city pop album.
