B-Pop

The first few posts I'll devote to a genre of music i'm a big fan of despite not speaking the language

nor visiting it's place of origin.

Chalga or Bulgarian Folk Pop is for me one of the most interesting Pop phenomena in the world.

There's something about the blend of modern beats and traditional folk music, especially the extreme

use of horns in many tracks.

The personalities in the Bulgarian pop world themselves are very interesting, the most visible

and well known of them of course being azis, but even the female singers are very striking.

A typical Folk Pop singer seems to always have an obscene amount of plastic surgery done to her if it is a woman and more recently always a raunchy video which sometimes end up to be quite comical unintentionally.

Here's a quick selection of videos to give you a first impression.