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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...