Many Lao people said that Morlum is very old fashion, and it will die out from Laos very soon. Lao people prefer rock, hip-hop and pop dances and musics because it makes them look modern and catch up with this civilized world
Yeah, it is not true ,now you are young, probably you don't like listening to Morlum much, but you will like it when you are old ,because you miss your parent, grandparent whom love or loved the Morlum very much. forget the Morlum as if you forget your country, forget your root.
I'm from the USA, and when it comes to music, people with age between 18-26 prefer morlum, I've seen Laotian people in America listening to molum than the people in Laos do, it might sound old fashion, but it has more SOUL and more Meaning into the music than the hip-hop an all them do, Im a southern guy from Savannakhet raised in Chicago, so morlum to me is natural in my soul, morlum or Isan music, loogtoung.....................morlum is like eating off the same sticky rice basket with your wife in the RICEland area on a light rainy day with the frogs an bird chirping outside...an hip hop an rock is like eating on a kitchen table with spoons an fork.......so therefore; which one has for soul? morlum does!!!!!!
Many Lao people said that Morlum is very old fashion, and it will die out from Laos very soon. Lao people prefer rock, hip-hop and pop dances and musics because it makes them look modern and catch up with this civilized world
by your statement, Great Britain is not modern world right, coz you will pay over 100 euro for the ticket if you want to liten live opera (kind of morlum) so the same for Italy and everywhere in Europe countries. i know opera is perform by professional singers and actors (academic), morlum can be sung by any after the 3rd or 4th drink. the thing is if laos can organize the schooling of morlum, it will help preserve our culture. i think Isan had such, but it's a like homeschooling, it's not academical school.
my2cent P.S. i agree with some comment above, that laOcean listen to morlum more than laotian.
Morlum will never die. Morlum is original Lao Folk music. It lives in the blood of Lao people and can never be gone. All that pop, rock, and hip hop isn't even Lao original music. It's all copied from America. Americans are the inovators of rock, hip hop, and rock. Asia copied America and forgot about their own traditional music. They have to take their traditional music and twist it into something new, like a fusion.
