Pop’s global circulation has long been distorted by harmful biases that frame the genre as an inherently Western form, with any pop work emerging from outside of North America or Western Europe often treated as a niche deviation from the genre’s supposed core, rather than a legitimate, foundational contribution to pop’s ongoing evolution. These biases have erased countless origins of pop works that travel far beyond their local creative communities, leading audiences to default to assumptions of Western origin for any pop sound they encounter, without stopping to unpack why those assumptions exist, or what they erase about the vast, global network of creators that make pop the dynamic, far-reaching form it is today. Titled History (feat.