This cross-section of popular music in Polynesia includes songs by Charley Mauu, Loma, Poline, Groupe Maeva, Coco’s Tamaeva, Eddie Lund, Marie Mariteragi and others. What will strike the listener is how much it resembles the polynesian music you hear in old movies from the 1940s and 1950s. The occasional more recent influence pops up, but it appears that the genre is more or less fixed. Not really my taste, but I can see it would work for me if I had a few mai-tais, and a few hula dancers to look at. The songs are sung in the various languages of French Polynesia, but there’s is a song in English (“Bora-Bora, I Love You”), and one Hawaian band is represented.
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