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Why Does It Hurt?
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About this Song
The creative ecosystems that sustain R&B across the globe each shape the music that emerges from them, tying every new sound to the specific lineage of creators that have refined and reimagined the genre to fit the needs and perspectives of their local communities. For creators working in the Philippines, R&B has long served as a flexible, deeply resonant vessel for exploring the full range of human emotion, a framework that lets creators lean into the genre’s core focus on intimate, personal storytelling while grounding that storytelling in the specific context of their lives and the communities that surround them. This sound, Why Does It Hurt?, exists within that lineage, taking its place as part of the ongoing evolution of Philippine R&B, a body of work that continues to grow and shift as new creators add their own voices to the genre’s long local history.
