The Script, the credited artist behind the album Both Ways, roots this full-length work in the creative landscape of the Philippines, where cross-cultural artistic exchange and the blurring of long-held musical boundaries have long shaped the way artists approach record-making. As an album categorized under Music/Other, Both Ways refuses to be boxed into the narrow, often restrictive genre labels that have long dominated mainstream music distribution and critical framing, a choice that aligns with the kind of creative autonomy that artists based in the Philippines have long cultivated to center their own artistic visions rather than the expectations of global markets that often demand artists fit into pre-existing, easily marketable boxes.