What is the difference between Cantonese songs and Hokkien songs?

In fact, in Chinese music, there are three main language genres: Mandarin songs, Cantonese songs, and Hokkien songs. Among them, Chinese songs are the mainstream songs that occupy an orthodox position. In the 1970s and 1980s of the last century, Before the 1990s, both Cantonese and Hokkien songs could only be regarded as non-mainstream music, and it was difficult for them to reach the mainstream. This is just like each province or even each place has its own local opera, but compared to the quintessence of Chinese Peking Opera, it is not on the same level.

Personally, I think this has to do with the composition of the people. Regardless of whether their ancestral home is Hong Kong or not, most of these singers in Hong Kong were born in Hong Kong. Even if their ancestral home is not Hong Kong, most of them are from Guangdong. They are typical Cantonese. District, under the leadership of Xu Guanjie, the status of Cantonese songs has been improved, and Hong Kong people have begun to like songs in their own language.

Looking at Taiwan, most of the famous Taiwanese singers we know in Taiwan are from other provinces. Their language environment was dominated by Mandarin when they were young. The official language in Taiwan is also Mandarin, and only Hokkien is spoken. Equivalent to their dialect, they still have to speak Mandarin in formal occasions, and they just speak their dialect in private.

Cantonese songs, including Mandarin pop songs, are based on Cantonese opera and ethnic songs and refer to some foreign popular singing methods in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. It is the strong voice of young people. Here I hope that friends who like pop songs will also learn more about Chinese traditional folk songs, musical dramas, etc. After all, it is a long-standing Chinese culture that needs us to inherit.