One TikTok earworm has been dominating "For You" pages globally — and shedding light on a lesser-known genre of electronic dance music from the Philippines. “Emergency Budots,” a remix of “Dr. Beat” ...

If you’re up on the latest TikTok dance trends, you may have heard this refrain looped over a wobbly electronic bassline punctuated by high-pitched noises. The disco remix has been used in thousands ...

It’s playful. Effortlessly viral. Deliberately tacky. You’ve probably heard it before though you might not know what it is — or where it’s from. This is budots, a genre of dance music rooted in the ...

From pulsing Budots beats to crystal-clear island adventures, this is the Philippines like never before! Join us as we dive into local party culture, dance with the masters of Budots, and hop between ...

After years of lighting up the Filipino music scene, iconic group Masculados is making a comeback, this time with a renewed mission to capture the hearts of a new generation. The all-male singing ...

But for those who know the context behind the song, the real emergency is that these users are doing the dance all wrong. Budots, slang for “slacker” in the Visayan language, is thought to have ...