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About this Song
When I Met You is rooted in the Philippines’ rich, decades-long engagement with rock and roll, a genre that found a deeply receptive creative home in the country’s diverse and vibrant music scene, where artists have reimagined and reshaped the form’s core possibilities to align with local creative values, community traditions, and the unique cultural crosscurrents that have shaped Philippine artistic expression for generations. Rock and roll’s journey to the Philippines is part of the genre’s broader global spread in the mid-20th century, but what set the country’s interpretation of the form apart from many others was the way it was integrated into existing local music practices, not adopted as a foreign import that overshadowed what came before, but rather embraced as a new tool that artists could use to expand their creative range, tell new kinds of stories, and connect with audiences both within the Philippines and far beyond the country’s borders.
