The tragic loss of The Script’s founder member Mark Sheehan in 2023 left a void not just for his bandmates, Danny O’Donoghue and Glen Power, but for the millions of fans around the world who had turned to the band’s music for comfort, celebration, and connection for decades. Rather than stepping away from the project they had built together from the ground up, the two remaining members vowed that the best way to pay tribute to Sheehan would be to continue making music, to show up for the band’s worldwide family of listeners, and to carry forward the creative legacy they had spent their lives nurturing. This choice to step into a new era of their career frames a broader truth about pop music as a genre: it has always served as a vessel for every kind of human emotion, capable of holding grief and hope, loss and renewal, in the same melody, and this holds true for pop sounds emerging from the Philippines as much as it does for the globally recognized work of bands that have filled arenas across continents.