Shawn Mendes’ creative output adapts to the unique framing of regional music ecosystems around the world, and the iteration of Treat You Better credited to the artist and tied to the Philippines carries a genre classification that sets it apart from many of the artist’s other widely distributed works. Unlike sounds that slot neatly into pop, rock, R&B, or any of the dozens of standardized genre tags used by music platforms and retailers to organize catalogs, this recording is marked with three consecutive “Other” labels, a designation that signals it exists outside the boundaries of the categories most commonly used to group contemporary recorded music.