Viet Nam Karaoke Pop Music

Grab a group of friends and rent a little private room to eat dinner and to drop the beat with some of your favorite Viet and American tunes. The karaoke outlets conspicuously sit on every street of Saigon. Amazingly enough, the Viets are fantastic karaoke dynamos with the immediate advantage in a naturally tonal language. Although the Viet dancing in the clubs lack energy and pizzazz, the average Viet singing kicks American behind everyway, anyday, and everyday. You don’t want to do a “Sing-off” with these Viet players.

What about the Viet music itself? For one thing I cannot understand the actual words. The tonal shifts in the music confuse my brain language centers as if I just listened to a different language.



As for lyrical content, like country music, it’s always sad and always a love song. However that’s it for similarities. The music is pop full of melody with an occasional struggling hip hop mix. If it is not pop, it’s not hot. If you don’t sob, it’s not hot. And if you can make the song into a karaoke star, the song will pop the charts.

Check out the new music rotisserie in the drop down menu on the right side panel under the header: VN Music: Audio and Video. It’s filled with the trendy Viet songs of today, at least claimed by my roommate Khoa. Sometimes the music strikes me as bad wannabe USA, but in reality this is what the public wants out of their allstar singer. So blame Khoa if the music is cheesy.

But you gotta love cheese because I can’t help humming along. Come to think of it, I haven’t had cheese in over two months.