Suno City Pop Prompt: Style and Exclude Lines

City Pop example: a convertible on a neon Tokyo expressway at night, a cassette and a microphone on the dashboard — Mood still for this style, made with the Lookbook's image prompts. The page has no audio. Scene: a convertible on a neon Tokyo expressway at night, a cassette and a microphone on the dashboard.

What it is

1980s Japanese pop for a boom-era city at night: slap bass, funky cutting guitar, electric piano and brass stabs, polished like a car stereo demo.

Suno prompt

Two boxes, ready to paste. The Style line goes in Suno's Styles field, the Exclude line in Exclude styles.

Style

1980s Japanese city pop, 116 bpm, slap bass groove, crisp funk guitar cutting, lush electric piano and bright brass stabs, airy synth strings, smooth female vocal in Japanese, glossy night-drive radio sound

Exclude

lo-fi tape hiss, vaporwave slowdown, trap drums, EDM drop, rock distortion, rap, orchestral, sad piano ballad

The parts

The lead is the one instrument that carries the tune. Colour instruments add texture and never take the melody. The bed is the rhythm section underneath.

Tempo: 116 bpm
Meter: 4/4
Swing: 6% on the off-16ths
Key: Db major
Lead (carries the tune): smooth female vocal in Japanese
Colour (never the melody): brass stabs, synth strings
Bed: slap bass, funk guitar, electric piano, tight drums

Not this

Not vaporwave: played at full speed with no tape slowdown. Not synthwave: real bass, guitar and horns lead, not arpeggiators.

Other names

Japanese city pop, 80s Tokyo pop

Pairs with

low tracking shot along a city expressway at night
soft pastel neon grade
a thin italic serif title

Build a full look around it

The Lookbook deals the camera, light, film look, palette and music that go with this card, and writes one prompt for the whole set.

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