J-pop

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Japanese pop music influenced by Western genres. uncountable

    "The girls are constantly reshuffled into new permutations in order to feed the J-pop market's insatiable demand for fresh looks and faces."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of J-pop. alt-of, uncountable

Example

More examples

""Do you like to listen to J-rock or J-pop?" "What does that mean?" "J-rock is Japanese rock, and J-pop is Japanese pop.""

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese J-POP (jeipoppu), from J- + pop, an abbreviation of English Japanese pop, coined by Tokyo radio station J‑WAVE in 1988.

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