The recording of Girls Like You (feat. Cardi B) that bears the creative stamp of Maroon 5 and its geographic anchor in the Philippines occupies a rare space in the landscape of recorded sound, unshackled from the rigid genre classifications that usually guide how audiences encounter, contextualize, and discuss the music they bring into their lives, instead resting outside those pre-existing silos as a work that refuses to be neatly boxed into the limited categories that have long structured the global music industry.