New forms of music have arrived in music world in a big way. Musical forms like pop, rock, hip-hop, contemporary etc have become the preferred choice for many people especially youths. Even on a regional scale, music tastes have changed dramatically. Classical music is still there but the popularity has definitely diminished. Talking about tamil pop songs, it has yet to acquire the status of indipop. Even Hindi pop industry is much more popular than any regional pop industry. But slowly the winds of change can be seen across the landscape of Tamil Nadu. Youths in particular are going all guns for popular tamil pop songs.

Talking about Tamil pop songs, it is very much influenced from western genres like pop, rock, hip hop, reggae, beats, techno and metal etc. Very few Tamil composers or singers are retaining the traditional classical or folk songs. The main theme of these pop songs is dance beats that needs to be played in discos and clubs where younger ones love to dance. However one distinct change seen because of advent of pop songs is in quality of lyrics. It has definitely no more that melodious. There has been distinct improvement in quality of music because of technological advancements but lyrics have suffered a bit in return. Songs are forgotten easily and their longetivity is very much questionable. When one hears lyrics of older songs, they still remind us of golden era but new songs are lacking that touch.

Quite a good number of singers have made their mark in Tamil pop songs industry. Famous pop singers include, Ranjhani Iyer, L Shantha, Nallini Narayanan, Malgudi Subha, Swarnlatha, Ramesh Vinayagam, KArthik, Unni Menon etc. one can surf music websites for latest Tamil pop songs.