Across the Philippines, pop music operates as a unifying creative thread that weaves together the diverse linguistic, ethnic, and regional communities spread across the archipelago’s more than 7,000 islands, forging a shared cultural language that travels as easily between bustling urban metro centers and remote coastal and highland towns as it does across international borders to the large, dispersed Filipino diasporic communities that call North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania home. This expansive, deeply interconnected landscape of Filipino creative production gives shape to Tunnels, a pop sound rooted in the vibrant, longstanding creative ecosystem that has grown and evolved within the country to reflect both global pop’s widespread cross-cultural influence and the unique creative sensibilities that distinguish Filipino-made pop from the output of other global pop centers.