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The weight of process, of the quiet unspoken labor that goes into making any work of art feel effortless, hangs over every sound that chooses to center that labor in its very identity, and How It’s Done, as a title, does exactly that, turning the question of craft that so often stays hidden behind the gloss of a finished work into the core of the pop sound rooted in the Philippines that bears its name. Pop, as a genre, is often misunderstood as a monolith, a uniform set of sounds and themes that travels the world without shifting to meet the needs of the communities that embrace it, but that could not be further from the truth, because every region that claims pop as its own reshapes it, infuses it with the cadences of local speech, the rhythms of local community gatherings, the emotional contours of local struggles and joys, turning a global form into something that feels deeply, unshakably rooted in the place that gave it new life.
