Loonie’s decision to center collaboration as a core creative principle across his long-awaited comeback body of work turns every track on Meron Na into a distinct thread in a larger tapestry of Filipino popular music, with the track Balewala landing as one of the project’s sharp pop-driven entries that balances the album’s famously diverse array of soundscapes and styles. As part of a tracklist that rejects narrow framing of what a comeback project can hold, Balewala fits seamlessly into a sprawling collection of recordings that brings together a who’s who of local creative talent, spanning Philippine hip-hop staples who have spent decades shaping the country’s underground and mainstream music scenes, to up-and-coming artists still building the foundations of their own catalogues.