Saw that one question about kpop here and it made me realize something. Ya'll it's fascinating how asian pop music are labeled with a letter acronym before the word 'pop' (e.g. Kpop, Jpop, Cpop; and lately I discovered that there's also Ppop = Philippine Pop).
It makes me wonder somehow. As an asian, why do we need to put a letter before pop when pop music is pop music nonetheless. Western pop can easily be referred to as 'pop' while ours needs categorization. At first I was kinda sad about this coz it's like a form of alienation but after some time, I see it positively coz it gives identity to our music.
I guess it shows which language is used the most and where its produced. For example in Italy you would say pop Italiana (Italian pop), it's not just an Asian thing reply
