The flags arrived before BINI did. They were already rippling across the Mojave Tent at Coachella in a sea of blue, red and white when the eight-member group took the stage on a recent Friday afternoon, carried by fans who had travelled across oceans and time zones for a moment that had never been seen before.<\/p>\n
The 45-minute set that followed made BINI the first P-pop act from the Philippines<\/a> \u2013 and the first Southeast Asian girl group \u2013 to perform at one of the world\u2019s most influential music festivals. It was the kind of milestone that trends globally even before the encore.Within eight hours of their performance in the California desert on April 10, videos of it had reportedly drawn nearly 8 million social media engagements. On Coachella\u2019s own Instagram page, a reel of the group\u2019s tropical-inflected closer \u201cPantropiko\u201d \u2013 a song that had already crossed 100 million streams and set TikTok<\/a> alight \u2013 went on to accumulate more than 25 million views, second only to headliner Justin Bieber<\/a>.<\/p>\n For the devoted fans known as \u201cBlooms\u201d packed into the Mojave Tent, it was vindication. For the musicians, policymakers and cultural economists watching from Manila, it was something more urgent: a starting gun.<\/p>\n BINI was formed in 2021 through Star Hunt Academy, a talent search run by Philippine media giant ABS-CBN that self-consciously mirrors the K-pop<\/a> idol trainee system.<\/p>\n With their rigorous training and precision choreography, the group is at the vanguard of Pinoy pop, or P-pop: the Philippines\u2019 answer to South Korea\u2019s cultural juggernaut.<\/p>\n And P-pop is certainly having a moment. Last month, Filipino singer Matty Juniosa earned a golden buzzer<\/a> from judge Simon Cowell on Britain\u2019s Got Talent. Fellow P-pop group SB19<\/a> is also set to debut at Chicago\u2019s Lollapalooza this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The flags arrived before BINI did. They were already rippling across the Mojave Tent at Coachella in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[189441,85151,2703,189447,63228,18371,189442,189446,146,189443,85,46,715,106760,170732,189445,2593,189444],"class_list":{"0":"post-399793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-abs-cbn","9":"tag-bini","10":"tag-blackpink","11":"tag-blooms","12":"tag-britains-got-talent","13":"tag-coachella","14":"tag-creative-economy-council-of-the-philippines","15":"tag-creative-industries-development-act","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-hidilyn-diaz","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-k-pop","21":"tag-lollapalooza","22":"tag-manila","23":"tag-p-pop","24":"tag-philippines","25":"tag-star-hunt-academy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}