We admit it—we love to yearn. Now give us all the ‘Multo’ edits!
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If you’ve been online the last few weeks, we can almost guarantee you’ve come across an edit set to Cup of Joe’s Multo on your feeds and TikTok FYPs. No ship, no show, no circumstance is safe from being made into a video edit set to the stirring, evocative track, proving not only its impact as an edit soundtrack, but also as a universally-beloved song for yearners and masochists and sadists alike.
@mrvelmya i hate marvel for this 🙁 #fyp #marvel #marvelstudios #peterparker #gwenstacy #andrewgarfield #emmastone #theamazingspiderman #fypage #edits #edit ♬ original sound – maya
Multo was released as part of the band’s 2025 album Silakbo, and was dropped as a single with a music video starring real-life couple Elijah Canlas and Miles Ocampo. Perhaps best known for its hook “Hindi na makalaya / Dinadalaw mo ‘ko bawat gabi / Wala mang nakikita / Haplos mo’y ramdam pa rin sa dilim,” or its post-chorus “Hindi mo ba ako lilisanin? (Dinadalaw mo ‘ko bawat gabi) / Hindi pa ba sapat pagpapahirap sa’kin,” the track has wormed its way into collective consciousness, deservingly getting the spotlight as a song all about old ghosts and things we can’t seem to escape from.
Hauntingly emotional, people online have deemed it the edit song of the moment, using it as a soundtrack to all kinds of media, characters, couples, and situations, bringing everybody down to their knees as they drown in the feels—and you know what? We’re not complaining.
HINDI NA MAKALAYA
@shaaants_0 Worth the wait🥹🙇♀️ Literal na tinuloy sa bahay ni kuya HAHAHAHAHAH (Full live stream link in bio.) @Esnyr @brent manalo #pbbcollab #pinoybigbrother #esnyr #brent #pbbupdates #brentmanaloedits #bresnyr ♬ Multo – Cup of Joe
Multo has made enough appearances in edits for people to crack jokes about the frequency of its exposure. It’s hilarious at times, especially when it’s an edit of the most unexpected people and ships. But it also can be pretty painful! We can count a handful of edits where we wanted to call “foul!” for how badly they made us relapse. Multo as the edit song as of late, is applicable to exes (fictional and real-life ones), tragic romances, ships that never sail, as well as even stranger ones like ex-friendships, characters that only share one scene, PBB housemates, or even, yes, basketball ex-teammates.
@whos_khennn I will never recover from this movie #bridgetoterabithia #annasophiarobb #joshhutcherson #multocupofjoe #multo #fypage #xyzbcaa ♬ Multo – Cup of Joe
Besides being another bringer of milestones to Cup of Joe, Multo is a beautiful song that does its job of making people feel what the band intended them to feel. Why else would everybody across fandoms, cultures, and countries make such heart-wrenching edits of their own?
Written as a way to express longing, sadness, and lingering grief, Multo reassures everyone that while feelings about certain things may never leave us, it’s alright—it’s a part of life, and we aren’t alone in experiencing it. There’s also the trend of sharing what one’s “multo” is, such as opportunities not taken, the kind of person one could have been, futures, TOTGAs, and more, showing its message resonates even beyond romance and relationships.
cup of joe paki-unrelease na nga yang multo lahat ng fandoms nabulabog na sa lungkot
— 💽 (@paperstings) April 7, 2025
Though we whine and jest about the feels a Multo edit brings, it’s always a welcome experience to be reminded of the media, characters, and couples we’ve come to know and love, romantic or otherwise—no matter the depth of sadness and yearning it brings with it.
HINDI NA BA MA-MAMAMAYAPA?
@yawnsedits didn't think i'd be editing them in 2025 yet here i am #darlentina #darna #valentina #multo #edit #fyp ♬ original sound – yawns
Few have escaped being edited to Multo—not AlDub, not idol ships, not Professor X and Magneto, not Toothless and Hiccup from How To Train Your Dragon, not Joy and Sungjae, not Precious (Esnyr) and Brent from Esnyr’s High School Series—and fewer have escaped seeing a Multo edit on their feeds and FYPs.
paos na ako kaka “ng damdamin koOoOo” sa WillCa tiktok edits nyo pero ok lang kinikilig naman ako <333
— gian (@gianbernardino_) April 7, 2025
It’s one thing to see our favorite pairings (tragic or otherwise, romantic or otherwis) and relive the feelings they bring out in us, it’s another to layer it with the haunting yet cathartic vibe of the song. Though it may be easy to get tired of hearing the same verse with every swipe of your FYP, one can’t deny how moving (or at the very least, quite entertaining) an edit is when it’s set to Multo. The impact!
@userszn2lawschool sinong 'di mumultuhin sa non-rom na kdrama🙁🙁🙁 s2 pls #multo #lawschool #fyp ♬ Multo – Cup of Joe
Not only is it bringing the song to new audiences across pop culture, it’s also showing us we’re not alone. What do you mean Filipino Klaroline (from The Vampire Diaries) shippers exist in the thousands? Where have y’all been? What do you mean we’re not the only ones who have SolHwi from Law School (2021) living rent-free in our minds?
Time and time again, we expose ourselves as enjoyers of the sad. We watch movies we know we’ll cry over, listen to songs that have us remembering past relationships, and yes, make edits that we know will recruit others into sharing our sorrow. Embrace it! Embrace the yearning. There’s nothing wrong with allowing ourselves to feel depths of emotions (as long as we’re not wallowing in sadness in a way that harms us in a very serious way), and songs like Multo having its time in the spotlight normalizes that even more.
What’s your favorite Multo edit?
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