Mandopop
Mandopop (Mandarin Popular Music, traditional Chinese: 華語 流行 音樂, simplified Chinese: 华语 流行 音乐) is a sub-category of so-called C-Pop (Chinese Pop Music). Mandopop comes mainly from Taiwan and, as the name suggests, is sung in Standard Chinese (Mandarin), as it addresses a wider audience than Taiwanese alone. The majority of the Taiwanese population speaks Taiwanese, but standard Chinese (Mandarin) is the official language, is understood by most and enables linguistic minorities such as Hakka and indigenous Taiwanese to identify with the texts.
language
Among the many Chinese languages, Cantonese is another. This language, which is mainly spoken in southern China (including the Hong Kong and Macau special administrative areas ), has its own sub-category of C-Pop , the so-called Cantopop (Cantonese Popular Music, traditional Chinese: 粵語 流行 曲, simplified Chinese: 粤语 流行 曲), which comes mainly from Hong Kong ( People's Republic of China ).
| genre | Subcategory | origin | language | font |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ch-pop | Cantopop | Hong Kong | Cantonese | traditionally |
| Mandopop | Taiwan | Mandarin | traditionally | |
| Mainland China | Mandarin | simplified | ||
| Hong Kong | Mandarin | traditionally | ||
| Singapore | Mandarin | simplified | ||
| Malaysia | Mandarin | simplified |
The font used in the lyrics of the albums does not depend on the country of the singer, but on the country of the record company.
features
Language is largely the only difference between mandopop and western pop music. Musically everything is represented in mandopop from gentle toothless to more complex arrangements, which always hit the nerve of the mainstream. The content is mostly shaped by heartbreak, relationship and love stories.
