Styles and sub-scenes: Southeast Asian pop scenes: T-pop, P-pop, and OPM, V-pop, Indonesian and Malaysian pop

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Sep 19, 2026

Dangdut

Dangdut is an Indonesian popular music genre that grew out of orkes Melayu under Indian influence and became the country's most widely followed style from the 1970s.

Sep 19, 2026

Indie pop Indonesia (music genre)

Indie pop Indonesia is the Indonesian indie pop wave of the early and mid-2000s, a DIY scene centered on Jakarta and Bandung, best known for Mocca and White Shoes & the Couples Company.

Sep 19, 2026

Luk krung

Luk krung (ลูกกรุง, "children of the city") is a polished, Western-influenced Thai popular music style that emerged in Bangkok in the late 1940s, contrasting with rural luk thung.

Sep 19, 2026

Nhac vang (Vietnamese golden music)

Nhac vang (nhạc vàng), or "yellow music," is the romantic popular music of pre-1975 South Vietnam, banned by the socialist government after 1975, preserved overseas, and since returned to Vietnam.

Sep 19, 2026

OPM

OPM, or Original Pilipino Music, is the umbrella term for popular music written and performed by Filipinos in any language, coined by Danny Javier and first used on an album in 1978.

Sep 19, 2026

Pinoy rock

Pinoy rock is the rock tradition of the Philippines, a strand of Original Pilipino Music born in 1973 with the Juan de la Cruz Band's Himig Natin.