A Katseye Listening Guide for Guys

Katseye is coming back to the Philippines early next year, with The Wildworld Tour adding two stops: the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City on January 29 and SM Seaside in Cebu on February 7, presented by Live Nation Philippines.

Whether you're being dragged into seeing the show your lady or if you're an honest-to-goodness/since-day-one fan boy, it's always a good idea to dive into a group's deeper cuts past the surface-level TikTok-adjacent singles that don't really need revisiting.

Here are our certified Katsye bangers and gems that you should definitely put on during your next drive to work to prep you for next year's must-see shows.

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1| I’m Pretty (SIS (Soft Is Strong), 2024)
Our first pick was produced by Digital Farm Animals; this cut is from the debut EP, and the shimmery, plucky intro recalls late-2000s pop radio before the heavy 808s and stacked harmonies come in. The hook plays on the word "pretty," switching from adjective to adverb, in a song about covering up hurt with makeup. The whole thing runs 2:22 and is a lot of self-affirmation that even dudes need a healthy dose of.

2| Bel Air (Wild, 2026)

Our first recommendation is a Charli XCX castoff, written with Noonie Bao in 2013 for the Sucker album and cut from it, then recorded by Katseye for Wild a dozen years later. A buzzing bassline, a marching snare, and an accordion-like keyboard line carry a ballad about mixed feelings toward an ex, and the instrumental break near the end, where the chorus gets chopped up as the song winds down, is the part we’re waiting for live. It’s the slowest and most mature-sounding track on the EP that has already been a divisive record with criticisms of heavy-handed TikTok audience pandering.

3 | Mean Girls (Beautiful Chaos, 2025)

This is the slow one, a mellow contemporary R&B cut with laid-back drums and synth pads under breathy leads. It’s widely perceived as a response to the backlash the group got after Dream Academy, and the line about hating the internet while refusing to let it ruin the mood is probably the sharpest writing they’ve done so far. Anyone who writes Katseye off as all hyperpop and brainrot should hear this one.

4 | M.I.A. (Beautiful Chaos, 2025)
A cut that is the shortest one on the same record but a banger nonetheless that rides on electronic dance pop beats. Megan has named it a favorite for the production, and the case for it is easy to hear in the programmed drums and the compressed, glossy vocal chain. The case against is just as plain, since the heavy autotune and vocal filters strip the members of their individual tones until they sound nearly identical. That makes the live treatment a useful comparison against the studio version: the group staged it with almost no choreography at the Boston show, with each member singing her part from a separate spot onstage. This pick for us is more of a contextual one since "M.I.A" is more of a live performance-dependent track.

5| Tonight I Might (SIS (Soft Is Strong) 2024)

We are leaving you with our favorite track from the beloved SIS debut EP (also the record's closer), which trades the ballad mood of the tracks before it for electro-dance pulse and a rebellious, adventurous streak. Among its writers is Oskar Widén, a Swedish producer best known for his work with Swedish pop acts Dagny and Tove Styrke, and more recently with Boy in Space and LOVA, which explains the clean, synth-led Scandinavian pop sheen under the track.

It's a quick one, and the live version is worth the wait, since on the Beautiful Chaos tour the members grabbed cameras and filmed themselves onstage while the footage played on the big screen behind them.

Plain and simply, it's a warm and endearing pop song that just lifts the mood.

You can secure your tickets to the Katseye shows at Live Nation Philippines' website starting Nov. 13.

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