To encounter a work that names itself Sad Songs and Bullshit is to encounter a refusal of the soft, sanitized framing that often clings to creative work that traffics in vulnerability, a choice that aligns with the long tradition of R&B creators in the Philippines who have used the genre’s flexible, empathetic framework to voice truths that might otherwise go unspoken, unacknowledged, or dismissed as too unruly for mainstream spaces.