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                                                           The Original Pilipino music, now more commonly termedoriginal Pinoy music, original Philippine music or OPM for short, originally referred only to Philippine pop songs, particularly ballads, such as those popular after the collapse of its predecessor, the Manila Sound of the late 1970s. In the 1970s, popular OPM artists included Nora Aunor, Pilita Corrales, Eddie Peregrina, Victor Wood and Asin, among others. The more major commercial Philippine pop music artists were Claire dela Fuente, Didith Reyes, Rico Puno,Ryan Cayabyab, Basil Valdez, Celeste Legaspi, Hajji Alejandro, Rey Valera, Freddie Aguilar, Imelda Papin, Eva Eugenio, Nonoy Zuniga, and many others. Between the 1980s and 1990s, OPM was led by artists such as Regine Velasquez, Sharon Cuneta, APO Hiking Society, José Mari Chan, Dingdong Avanzado, Rodel Naval,Janno Gibbs, Ogie Alcasid, Joey Albert, Lilet, Martin Nievera, Manilyn Reynes, Lea Salonga, Vina Morales, Raymond Lauchengco, JoAnne Lorenzana, Francis Magalona, Zsa Zsa Padilla, and Gary Valenciano, among many others.

In the 1990s, famous artists included Eraserheads, Smokey Mountain, Donna Cruz, Jessa Zaragoza, Ariel Rivera, South Border, AfterImage, Andrew E., Jaya, Lani Misalucha,Rivermaya, Ella May Saison, Roselle Nava, and Blakdyak, among many others. In the 2000s and 2010s,leading OPM artists include Toni Gonzaga, Sarah Geronimo, Yeng Constantino, Spongecola, Christian Bautista, Charice, Jed Madela, Erik Santos,Callalily, Parokya Ni Edgar, and Gloc-9, among many others. “I Love OPM is Racist”, says most popular American who sings Filipino songs. David Di Muzio thinks “I Love OPM” is racist because judges are scoring the contestants based on their Tagalog pronunciation and not on how good they can sing He also criticized the show’s title where he thinks that it should be called ” I Love Tagalog Songs” instead David said aside from English there are also a lot of OPM songs in Bisaya and Chavacano language, but the show’s focus is only Tagalog songs. David Di Muzio, who is tagged as the most popular American who sings OPM songs, thinks “I Love OPM” is racist because judges are scoring the contestants based on their Tagalog pronunciation and NOT on how GOOD they can sing. “Oh you don’t really sing that well, but your tagalog pronunciation is great so score of 97 for you. I don’t think that’s a very healthy way of having a music competition in general,” David said. He also gave an example on how Asians would feel if they were judged based on their accent rather than their singing skills. “Let’s just say that America had a TV show and we only had Asians on. Asians who doesn’t speak good English and we told them to sing American English songs, and we did that and we judge them out of how their English pronunciation was. I think that Asian people would be so much offended by that,” David added. He also criticized the show’s title where he thinks that it should be called ” I Love Tagalog Songs” instead, as there were many popular OPM songs in English; as mentioned also by some commenters on the show “The show is called I Love OPM but it should be called I Love Tagalog Songs instead. Many of my favorite Original Pilipino Music songs are not in Tagalog, but actually English songs.” David said. “Some of the best OPM songs are in English like “So Slow”, “Forevermore”, “With a Smile”, “Before I Let You Go”, “Let Me Be the One” are just a few,” David added.

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