Kayōkyoku (歌謡曲, literally "Lyric Singing Music") is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop. The Japan Times describes kayōkyoku as "standard Japanese pop"[1] or "Showa era pop".[2]
Kayōkyoku is Western-style-inspired music of Japan. Music in this genre is extremely varied as a result.
Kayōkyoku in the narrower and more practical sense, however, excludes J-pop and enka.[3]
Unlike enka, kayōkyoku is also not based on emotional displays of effort while singing.[5]
Unlike "J-pop" singers such as Southern All Stars' Keisuke Kuwata, the singers of the kayōkyoku genre do not use stylized pronunciations based on the English language, but prefer traditional Japanese.[4] There are exceptions, such as in singer Momoe Yamaguchi's song "Rock 'n' Roll Widow".[4]
Famous kayōkyoku artists include Kyu Sakamoto, The Peanuts, The Tigers, Candies, Pink Lady, Seiko Matsuda, Junko Sakurada, The Checkers and Onyanko Club.[6]
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