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Pop as a category of sound crafted and circulated from the Philippines draws from a long lineage of creative practice that ties global understandings of popular music to the unique cultural fabric of the archipelago, and Cutterpillow emerges from that rich, ongoing tradition of Filipino pop creation. To frame the relationship between the country’s creative ecosystem and the pop genre that anchors this sound is to recognize that pop has never been a monolithic, one-size-fits-all form of expression, even as it circulates across borders to reach audiences far from its place of origin.
