So what does a Filipina do when she gets bored… well make a weird youtube video! An Asian (Filipina) girl doing some tongue tricks with her tongue.

She also claims that:

I can lick my elbow NA NA NA NA NA NA lol

From Weird Asia News

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Yup that’s right, it seems there’s no such thing as pop songs in the Philippines, if there are, its rare or imported from another country i.e. USA, Japan, Korea.

This is pretty bold statement but I think I can provide some evidence of this.

For some reason “pop” music in the Philippines has been categorized with ballads and/or alternatives. There are great bands over there doing covers of rock ballads or singing their own compositions. But it’s still not “pop” music.

Pop artist/s are “packaged and groomed” as an individual artist and/or as part of a group.

If I may, the categories that are dominant in the Philippines are ballad, alternative, rock, weird ones (otso, otso), dance, rap, R&B, Christian, revivals, and traditional. But no poppish beat.

Now there’s no reason why should anyone wonder that Japanese/Korean/ American pop music are popular in the PI, because there’s no artist/s that has been doing this type of pop songs.

One can argue, pop music is really whatever is popular. But pop has elements of that one can dance too, a repeating beat, and pretty simple melodies with wide range of sound. One is yet to find this in Filipino music, to make it sound “edgy and modern” .

Korean,and Japanese Pop has been popular even in the U.S. because of it’s beats and intersting syncopations.

But where’s Fil-Pop? or maybe Flip-pop?

Thanks to youtube, I can cite some samples:

The only “poppish” thing I can relate to as of now is this music video by Iya Villania’s “Good To Be Me”

Now, if the language of the Philippines is Chinese then these would be the current “pop” music in the Philippines

As a comparison this is apparently the pop music in the PI as of now.

Now let’s see some samples of what pop is in Japan:She’s half -filipino and very popular in Japan right now. Leah Dizon

The first search result on Youtube with a query of Jpop (ok I know BOA is Korean, but she’s fluent in Japanese)

And the two most popular female singers in Japan.

Korean Pop Samples:BOA singing in English

H.O.T. arguably the one of the boybands that lead K-pop

American Sample:Britney Spears

It’s really quite surprising that Flip-pop/filpop has not develop yet even though it’s heavily influence by western music. It’s an untapped, and very profitable market.Yes I coined the term: Flip-pop/filpop

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So this is a practice subbing for me, just for fun.

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