Earrings, the sound work crafted by Malcolm Todd, emerges from the creative ecosystem of the Philippines, a country with a long and rich history of musical experimentation that often pushes back against the rigid genre boundaries that shape global understandings of what creative music can be. What sets this work apart from many others that circulate through digital and physical music spaces is its categorization as Music/Other/Other, a label that signals that it does not align with any of the more common genre classifications that listeners and critics rely on to contextualize new creative output. This rejection of easy categorization is not a limitation, but a marker of the kind of creative freedom that independent artists often cultivate, choosing to prioritize their own creative vision over the demands of algorithmic sorting that rewards work that fits neatly into preexisting boxes that audiences are already known to engage with.