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J-pop (also J-POP), an abbreviation of Japanese pop, is a loosely defined musical genre that became the musical trend of Japan in the 1990s. J-modern pop has its roots in the music of the 1960s such as The Beatles and replaced kay?kyoku (Japanese pop music until 1980) in the Japanese music scene. It was invented by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese music of foreign music and now refers to most of the popular Japanese music. According to 2006 data from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, Japan has the second largest market for recorded music in the world behind the United States.

The origin of the modern J-pop is said to be the Japanese rock inspired by The Beatles. Kay?kyoku Unlike the Japanese genre of music called J-pop uses a particular type of pronunciation, which is similar to the English language. Singer to do is remarkable Keisuke Kuwata, who gave the Japanese word “Karada (body)” kyerada. Moreover, unlike Western music, the second major (and soil) was not commonly used in Japanese music, except the art of music before rock music became popular in Japan. When Group Sounds (which was inspired by Western rock) became popular, however, the Japanese pop music has adopted the second key that was used in the final sounds of the Beatles song “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and Song of the Rolling Stones (I Can not Get No) Satisfaction “. Although the Japanese pop music has changed the music based on a pentatonic Japanese tetrachord distortion of Western music over the course of time, the music that the traditional Japanese singing style has remained popular, such as that Ringo Shiina.

Initially, the term “J-Pop” was used only for Western-style musicians in Japan as Pizzicato Five and Flipper’s Guitar broadcast just after the Japanese J-Wave was created. However, the term has become a generic term covering other genres like the majority of Japanese rock music of the 1990s.

Tower Records Japan J-pop that defined the entire Japanese music belonging to the Recording Industry Association of Japan, except the Japanese indie music (also known as “J-indie”) in 1990, but began to use the classification more sentimental, like J-club, J-Punk, J-hip-hop, reggae-J, J-anime, Johnny and Visual in 2008 after a few indie musicians released their works to the majors. Music City Ito, a Japanese CD stores, has adopted a classification for the broader group Sons, idol of the 70s-80s, Enka, folk and established musicians of the 70s-80s, most major genres of J-pop.

Whereas rock musicians in Japan in general hate the word “pop”, Taro Kato, a member of the pop punk band Beat Crusaders, said that pop music encoded as pop art was more catchy J-pop and he also said that “J-pop” was the POP (????, poppusu?) music to recall being aired repeatedly in an interview where they completed their first full length album under a major label, BPA Pop to the arrival in 2005. Because the band did not perform the “J-pop, their music featured on the album of the 80s Pop MTV. Another member Toru Hidaka, music of the 1990s for his influential (Nirvana, Hi-Standard and Flipper’s Guitar) has not been heard by fans of other music in Japan at that time.

Contrary to this, although many rock musicians in Japan until the late 1980s without respect for music kay?kyoku, many Japanese rock bands of the 1990s such as Glay kay?kyoku assimilated into their music. After the late 1980s, breakbeat sampler and also changed the Japanese music scene, where the drummers of experts had played a good pace because traditional Japanese music did not have the rhythm-based rock and blues.

However, Hide Greeeen openly described their kind of music as “J-pop. He said:” I also like rock, hip hop and breakbeat, but my domain is still J-pop. For example, hip-hop musicians learn “the culture of hip-hop when they start their careers. We’re not like those of musicians and we like the music sounds like a lot. These professional people can say:” What are you doing? but I think our musical style is cool, after all. The good thing is good. “