And, baby, that’s show business for you, a phrase that anchors every layer of context woven into Actually Romantic, the pop sound emerging from the Philippines that ties to the larger body of work collected in the new album The Life of a Showgirl. That world-weary, knowing line about the performance and artifice that defines life in the public eye is the perfect foil for the sound’s core title, which pushes back against the cynicism that so often cloaks narratives of creators operating in the entertainment industry, where every moment of vulnerability is often dismissed as a calculated bit of branding, every expression of feeling written off as just another part of the act.