Pop-folk

Pop-folk is a music genre which is from the Balkan region of Europe.

Pop-folk has local names too, Chalga in Bulgaria, Turbo-folk in the former Yugoslav states, Manele in Romania, Laïko/Modern Laïka in Greece and Arabesque in Turkey.

Pop-folk is mainly performed in discothèques and occasionally performed in Concert halls.

Pop-folk is genre which is like Marmite (you like it or you don't like it).

There are many performers variating on country and the pop-folk stars also perform abroad for the diaspora.

Pop-folk music texts are mainly around the subjects of love, possessions, money and truths about life for example Relationship problems and pop-folk texts are very funny.

This is a example of a pop-folk text:

"100 Mercedes to have, 100 years to drive, 100 men to want my hand."

Turbo-folk

Turbo-folk is a style of music which is popular in the Balkan countries such as the former Yugoslav states, Romania and Bulgaria also known as Pop-folk . It is a mixture of Pop, traditional folk music, Roma/Gypsy music and oriental music.

Mainly sung in Serbian but the other former Yugoslav states have their own variations of turbo-folk too.

Performers: Dragana Mirković, Ceca, Lepa Brena, Jelena Karleuša, Vesna Zmijanac, Goga Sekulić, Viki Miljković and many more.

In the press turbo-folk can be seen by traditionalists as tacky, embarrassing and low quality music which to some people one can choose their own music of choice.

"I am not your wife tonight, this is not her bed, I am your live doll and your my sexy buisness man". That is an example of a Turbo-folk text.

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