Description
The Manila Sound is essentially styled as catchy and melodic, smooth, lightly orchestrated, accessible folk/soft rock, sometimes fused with funk, light jazz and disco. Broadly speaking however, it includes quite a number of genres (e.g. pop, vocal music, soft rock, folk pop, disco, soul, Latin jazz, funk, etc.), and should therefore probably be best regarded as a period in Philippine popular music rather than as a single musical style. Manila Sound typified the prevailing pop sound of the era and drew its influences from the singer-songwriter genre of American music during the 1970s. A great majority of Manila Sound songs were composed in Tagalog or Taglish, although some were also written in English. Sometimes, they included "juvenile lyrics", and less frequently, "swardspeak" (aka "gayspeak", i.e. homosexual slang) recast with novelty, comedic or satirical undertones.
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