Glad to see and hear that City Pop Prince Yasuhiro Abe（安部恭弘）has still been active in music. As of 2015, he was still releasing albums with his most recent being "Time Is".
And from that album, here is "Hakujo na Kamisama ni Merry Christmas" (Merry Christmas to a Cruel God). Since I couldn't find any lyrics online for the song and my listening to a song for the first time never provides full benefits, I can only speculate that Abe is singing cheerfully about another love gone wrong around the Holidays. This seems to be a perennial theme for some of the J-Xmas tunes.
Still, the music is pretty happy. I don't think it's quite in the Neo-City Pop vein but there's some nice tropical soul going on in the arrangement there. The lad might be mourning about another lost romance on Christmas Eve but the melody seems to be pushing him into a better frame of mind. Abe took care of both words and music with Ren Takayanagi（高柳恋）co-writing the lyrics.
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