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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Budots has swept the entire nation by storm But the dance craze that has people move around in uncoordinated freestyle dance to a weird mix of electronic sound and noises originated in Davao City in ...

MANILA -- The Masculados are heating things up again. The Filipino all-male group has dropped its latest single, “Jumbo Hotdog (Budots Remix),” a playful reimagining of their early-2000s hit, this ...

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 ...