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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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, ...

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 ...

In 2019, politician Bong Revilla, freshly acquitted of plunder, danced his way back into the Philippine Senate. His campaign video did not show his election platform nor his past achievements.

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 ...