Saw that one question about kpop here and it made me realize something. Ya'll it's fascinating how asian pop music are labeled with a letter acronym before the word 'pop' (e.g. Kpop, Jpop, Cpop; and lately I discovered that there's also Ppop = Philippine Pop).
It makes me wonder somehow. As an asian, why do we need to put a letter before pop when pop music is pop music nonetheless. Western pop can easily be referred to as 'pop' while ours needs categorization. At first I was kinda sad about this coz it's like a form of alienation but after some time, I see it positively coz it gives identity to our music.
I guess it shows which language is used the most and where its produced. For example in Italy you would say pop Italiana (Italian pop), it's not just an Asian thing reply
Pop music sounds very different around the world. I like k-pop but I hate j-pop. This goes for other genres of music like drill. There is a lot of difference between drill music in England, the US, Italy, France, etc. Its not just singing/vocals, but its the structure of the song, the phonetics of the language, the style and quality of production, ...... reply
Well pop is honestly a general category ngl, because at the end of the day k-pop, jpop, and all other types of pop music do come under the pop umbrella
However the distinctions made in kpop, jpop, ipop, etc are probably there to help you locate a specific type of pop faster. Because all the different musics together are a mish mash right?
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