What began as a group of six teens gathering between Ateneo High School classes in Manila to trade jokes and test out parodies of the chart-topping songs they loved would grow into one of the most enduring, unpredictable forces in Filipino pop, a band that balanced scrappy underground credibility with mass appeal that carried them from small Manila club stages to global awards shows and international tours, their chaotic, warm energy weaving itself into the fabric of the country’s cultural landscape for decades.