SB19, the creative force behind the sound LIHAM, hails from the Philippines, their work released in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, and categorized as Music/Other/Other, a classification that carries layered, revealing context when paired with an artist rooted in Southeast Asia’s rich, endlessly diverse musical ecosystem. That generic double "other" tagging, used to slot recordings that don’t align with the narrow, Western-dominated genre categories that structure most global music distribution frameworks, speaks to a longstanding, widespread gap in how cataloging systems account for work that draws from cultural traditions, stylistic fusions, and creative priorities that fall outside the pop, rock, hip-hop, and classical silos that are treated as default, universally recognizable categories for recorded sound.