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Old 2nd November 2006, 09:50 AM
Uemarasan Uemarasan is offline
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Originally Posted by Kikaru View Post
Teresa Teng I wouldn't really classify her as pop. Not in the sense today. Her voice really is gorgeous, and fit more chorale-sense rather than pop-sense.
Well, there isn't anything wrong with classifying someone as "pop". For me, pop music just means popular music. Even The Beatles were "pop". Maybe you mean "bubblegum pop", which is what most people think of "pop" today. But I disagree with that. Pop includes an artist of any genre of music who becomes very popular, be that music rock, jazz, blues, etc. So I'll have to say Teresa Teng's music was the pop music of her time.

And there's a variety of voices in pop music (Enya, for example). I doubt Teresa Teng made real chorale music.
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