TAMIL POP SONGS

Pop music is the short name for popular music. The Tamil pop music industry has not yet gained the kind of popularity that Indipop or the Hindi pop music industry has or the music if the Tamil movies has. Still it is steadily and surely gaining a fan following especially amongst the younger generation. Many such pop songs mp3 including Tamil pop songs mp3 are downloadable for free from various sites online.

Tamil pop music is basically music which is heavily westernized using American and British pop genres like rock n roll, hip hop, reggae, dance, techno, beats, R&B, metal, rap etc. Some composers or singers may retain the traditional Tamil folk or classical Carnatic styles in their music but usually this is not seen in the Tamil pop songs of today. These songs are more based on dance beats and hip hop suitable to be played in clubs and discos where the younger crowd enjoys them thoroughly.

Though pop music is held highly by the generations of today, the older generations seem to criticize it as most pop songs have not managed to retain the melody in the music any longer. Also the richness of the lyrics, which are easily available online for free, has greatly diminished.

The lyrics earlier used to be meaningful and deep and often left people pondering about the lyricists’ thoughts. Today the lyrics hold not much importance and have been reduced to a jumble of words that just seem to rhyme.

Popular Tamil pop singers include Nallini Narayanan, Ramesh Vinayagam, Malgudi Subha, Karthik, Unni Menon, Ranjhani Iyer, Swarnalatha, L Shantha to name a few. Nallini Narayanan has recently launched an album and has also composed music for it. The mp3s of this album titled Kadhal Café are available for free download on various sites.