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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pop star Olivia Rodrigo is among the participants in the latest TikTok trend, which involves using a budots remix to show off ...

In the run-up to the 2016 Philippine Presidential elections, countless of videos featuring then Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte went viral online. However, nothing was more head-scratching than one ...

Forged in the slums of Davao City in the Philippines, budots was largely sneered at for its unsubtle, maximalist sonics and associations with gang culture. But recent virality has reframed its image, ...

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” ...

It’s gone viral almost 20 years after it was first invented. Budots is the internet’s latest obsession and Tik Tok has made it happen for the Phillipino dance genre that was invented in a home cum ...

OXGN celebrates the roots of budots with a new streetwear collection inspired by the genre and its pioneer, Sherwin Calumpang Tuna.

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 ...

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 ...