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Pop, as a creative category, is often flattened into a one-size-fits-all marker of mainstream accessibility, a label that erases the vast range of distinct, geographically rooted inflections that give individual pop works their unique character and resonance. That flattening ignores the way pop acts as a flexible container, a form that can absorb and reimagine cultural traditions, community-specific creative practices, and local artistic priorities to create work that speaks both to the people who shape it and to audiences far outside its originating context. That flexibility is on full display with Run BTS, a pop sound rooted in the creative landscape of the Philippines, a country whose pop ecosystem has long redefined what the genre can be, pushing back against the idea that pop must adhere to a narrow set of global conventions to resonate widely.
