If you’ve scrolled through TikTok recently, you might have heard the catchy refrain, “Paging Dr. Beat! Emergency! Emergency!” This remix, layered with a wobbly bassline and high-pitched sounds, is ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines - Tonight’s Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho introduces the latest dance craze in the Philippines — the “Budots” dance. If the Americans have Teach Me How to Dougie and the South Koreans ...

Living up to its raison d’être, independent radio platform Manila Community Radio (MCR) is taking another huge step to champion the diverse sounds that always go unnoticed by the mainstream. It hasn’t ...

A common complaint I get from parents and teachers is the disconnect between classroom learning of Filipino and the practical living aspects of our national language. Classroom lectures, and textbooks ...

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 ...