Pop creation in Indonesia draws from a long, interconnected lineage of popular music that balances widespread global pop sensibilities with the layered cultural contexts that shape how sounds circulate and resonate within local communities across the archipelago’s thousands of distinct islands, each with its own centuries-long history of musical expression that feeds into the modern creative ecosystem that spawns work for audiences at home and abroad. This sound, I Should Have Known Better, emerges from that rich, evolving landscape, rooted firmly in the pop framework that unites creators across Indonesia and connects them to a worldwide network of pop artists and audiences that span every continent.