For Audrey Nuna, the creator behind the sound Mine, the creative context of her roots in the Philippines anchors every choice woven into this work, which defies narrow categorization so completely that it resists placement within any pre-existing popular genre framework, existing instead in a space of unclassifiable creative expression that prioritizes individual vision over the expectations of industry genre boxes that are designed to streamline marketing and consumption for mainstream audiences. Genres, as they function within the global music industry, are rarely just descriptive labels for groups of similar sounds; they are tools that organize listener expectations, sort creative output into marketable silos, and often impose unspoken rules about what a work within a given category can and cannot include, rules that often erase or marginalize the perspectives of creators who come from communities outside of the Western cultural centers that first defined many of the most widely used genre categories.