Also known as: Green Music, Nhạc trẻ, Nhạc xanh, Vietnamese Pop
Beginning with the Nhạc trẻ Sài Gòn movement of the early 1970s in South Vietnam, Vietnamese pop initially took strong influences from Pop, Rock and Yé-yé. Before the Vietnamese unification, most acts popular besides Vietnamese pop artists were either English or French, especially acts such as Elvis Phương and Hùng Cường.
After the end of the Vietnam War, popular music produced prior to 1975 (including Nhạc vàng) was prohibited by the government.
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Also known as: Green Music, Nhạc trẻ, Nhạc xanh, Vietnamese Pop
Beginning with the Nhạc trẻ Sài Gòn movement of the early 1970s in South Vietnam, Vietnamese pop initially took strong influences from Pop, Rock and Yé-yé. Before the Vietnamese unification, most acts popular besides Vietnamese pop artists were either English or French, especially acts such as Elvis Phương and Hùng Cường.
After the end of the Vietnam War, popular music produced prior to 1975 (including Nhạc vàng) was prohibited by the government. This ban was lifted in 1986, and the music scene in Vietnam had begun making gradual recovery. However, it wasn't until the late 1990s when artists started moving back to Vietnam that the groundwork for the new commercial music industry was laid out. Starting from the 2000s both domestic and overseas Vietnamese pop artists became popular, and in the 2010s new artists easily gained attention with the help of the internet.
Current Vietnamese pop mostly mixes elements from Western and Eastern regions, borrowing from styles such as Adult Contemporary, Dance-Pop, Contemporary R&B, Pop Rock, Electronic Dance Music, Vietnamese Folk Music, Nhạc vàng, and Vietnamese Bolero. In Vietnam, domestic pop from the country is called Nhạc trẻ, but overseas, names like Vietnamese pop or V-Pop are more common.
There are two kinds of Vietnamese pop that are separate from each other, though: usually it is referred to Western-sounding pop with Vietnamese lyrics (such as the music performed by Mỹ Tâm, Trish Thuy Trang, Sơn Tùng M-TP), or pop that borrows sounds from popular Vietnamese genres and re-imagines them with more accessible and/or upbeat structures (such as performed by Lưu Chí Vỹ and Lương Gia Huy). The most well known performers of the genre are from the former, but other artists from the latter still manage to attain similar international reputation. Even with the former, both styles of this scene have underground popularity with non-Vietnamese people.
