Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Mandopop (simplified Chinese: 华语流行音乐; traditional Chinese: 華語流行音樂; Mandarin Pinyin: Huáyǔ liúxíng yīnyuè; Jyutping: Waa4jyu5 lau4hang4 jam1ngok6) or Mandapop is a colloquial abbreviation for Mandarin popular music. The English term Mandopop was coined around 1980 soon after Cantopop became a popular term for describing popular song in Cantonese and Mandopop was then used to describe Mandarin-language popular songs of that time which were often versions of Cantopop songs sung by the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin.
