J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s–1970s. J-pop replaced kayōkyoku ('Lyric Singing Music', a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop ( Japanese: ジェイポップ, jeipoppu often stylized as J-POP an abbreviated form of ' Japanese popular music'), natively also known simply as pops ( ポップス, poppusu), is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.
