Phil Chang

Taiwanese pop is the broad umbrella for popular music created in Taiwan, spanning Mandarin (Mandopop) and Taiwanese Hokkien (Taiyu) repertoires, with contributions in Hakka and Indigenous languages.

Singer-songwriter is a song-focused style in which the same person writes, composes, and performs their own material, often accompanying themselves on acoustic guitar or piano.

Mandopop (Mandarin popular music) is the Mandarin-language branch of Chinese popular music, built on songcraft that blends Western pop forms with Chinese melodic aesthetics and lyric sensibilities.

C-pop (Chinese popular music) is an umbrella term for contemporary popular music sung primarily in Chinese languages, especially Mandarin and Cantonese, and produced across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the wider Chinese diaspora. It encompasses well-known streams such as Mandopop and…

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…