Romanian Dance Pop (Popcorn) Music

With the exclusion of the Moldavian-based ensemble O-Zone, Romanian Europop has not attained substantial popularity outside the borders of the country until the year 2005, when the ensemble known as Morandi has attained achievement with songs written in the English, Portuguese and other languages. The beat of Morandi, DJ Project, Fly Project and few others indicates the provisional year to the Romanian Dance-Pop of the late 2000s and early 2010s.

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Thanks go to a couple of musicians like Edward Maya, David Deeyay, Stan Alexandra, Play & win and others, a current beat has appeared that has managed to attain the commercial achievement outside the Romania and control the national TV and the radio station music charts. This current beat, nicknamed derogatively by some popcorn after the name of one its distinctive synths, is described by shiny danceable songs, hooks sometimes based on fused accordion and simple lyrics written very frequently in English, which was followed by the video often featuring young women. Popcorn has been assessed some as the artificial (sometimes being even contracted to manele), overly commercial repetition and by easily assessing, as a huge number of producers and artists (which also include the singers that formerly attained reputation in the early 2000s like Connect R or Andreea Banica)have changed this beat in a short time of period. Though, since the Romanian spectralist is almost unknown from the outside of the avant-garde music community, popcorn possibly considered the first trend in the record of Romanian history to attain momentum.