Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. homosexual slang) recast with novelty, comedic or satirical undertones. Sometimes, these songs included 'juvenile lyrics', and less frequently, ' swardspeak' (aka 'gayspeak', i.e. A majority of Manila sound songs were composed in Tagalog or Taglish, although some were also written entirely in English. 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. pop, vocal music, soft rock, folk pop, disco, soul, Latin jazz, funk etc.), and should therefore be best regarded as a period in Philippine popular music rather than as a single musical style. However, broadly speaking, it includes quite a number of genres (e.g. The Manila sound is styled as catchy and melodic, smooth, lightly orchestrated, accessible folk/ soft rock, sometimes fused with funk, light jazz and disco. The genre flourished and peaked in the mid to late-1970s during the Philippine martial law era and has influenced most of the modern genres in the country by being the forerunner to OPM. Manila sound is a music genre in the Philippines that began in the mid-1970s in Metro Manila.
