Christian Bautista

OPM (Original Pilipino Music) is the umbrella term for Filipino popular music, encompassing mainstream pop, soft rock, ballads, and band music primarily sung in Filipino languages (especially Tagalog) as well as English. The tag crystallized in the 1970s alongside the Manila Sound movement and the…

P-pop (Pinoy pop) is the umbrella term for Filipino popular music, spanning slick idol groups, powerhouse solo vocalists, dance-pop, ballads, and hybrid pop-rap/R&B crossovers.

Pop is a broad, hook-driven style of popular music designed for wide appeal. It emphasizes memorable melodies, concise song structures, polished vocals, and production intended for radio, charts, and mass media.

A ballad is a narrative song form that tells a story in simple, singable stanzas, traditionally using quatrains in ballad meter (alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter with an ABCB rhyme scheme). Ballads typically recount dramatic events—love, betrayal, tragedy, murder, the…