Fern.’s “Kahit Na Umulan” Proves Nostalgia Never Really Leaves
Fern.’s late-’90s-inspired R&B track finds an unexpected second life through TikTok trends, internet humor, and a rain-soaked new music video.
Words Randolf Maala-Resueño
Photos courtesy of NYOU
October 5, 2026
Artist Fern.
Nostalgia has always been unpredictable. Sometimes it returns through an old photograph, a forgotten fashion trend, or a song you suddenly hear everywhere. On TikTok, it can arrive dancing like a joke.
And in Fern.’s “Kahit Na Umulan,” the Filipino R&B artist-producer’s late-’90s-inspired track has found an unexpected second life through dance trends, remixes, and internet humor.
The song has become part of the ‘Dinorobong Tubo’ trend, while Dante Gulapa’s “Flying Eagle” take has added another layer of absurdity to its renewed virality. What was once simply a romantic R&B track now exists as a love song, meme soundtrack, dance challenge, and nostalgic artifact.
And Fern. is perfectly happy to let the internet have its fun. “It’s funny and unexpected, but I rode with it,” he says.
Nostalgia, remixed
The resurgence points toward something larger in Filipino pop culture: the return of the sounds and emotional textures of late-’90s and early-2000s R&B.
Artist Fern.
There was a particular warmth to that era’s music. Songs were romantic without embarrassment, melodramatic without irony, and built around voices allowed to linger over a feeling.
Fern. sees the renewed appetite for emotional directness as part of music’s natural cycle.
“People are getting tired of fast, upbeat stuff,” he says. “The heartfelt ones are making a huge comeback. It’s a cycle.”
TikTok has simply accelerated that cycle. A song can disappear from the cultural conversation before resurfacing years later through an entirely unexpected association. Its original intention becomes only one interpretation among many.
“All of a sudden it became a trend, but none of those are controlled by us,” Fern. says. “We put the song out there, and I think people have just gotten accustomed to my vibe, sound, and brand.”
Rain, romance, and a second life
The renewed attention arrives alongside the release of “Kahit Na Umulan’s” music video, shot in Canada and developed under Fern.’s creative direction.
Artist Fern.
Where TikTok has turned the track into something playful, the video returns to its sensual center. Rain becomes atmosphere; romance becomes visual language. Drawing from millennial R&B, cinema, pop culture, and humor, it gives the song a visual world that feels deliberately nostalgic without becoming trapped in the past.
That contrast is telling. Online, “Kahit Na Umulan” can soundtrack a joke. In the music video, it can still be a love song.
Perhaps that is the most contemporary thing about its resurgence: the song no longer belongs to one meaning.
Its renewed popularity also comes as Fern. looks toward greater creative independence.
“I’m planning to take what I have now and do what feels original on my end,” he says. “I’ve finally figured out where I’m coming from.”
Maybe that is why “Kahit Na Umulan” feels so fitting right now. It is a song about weathering something, and its own cultural afterlife has done precisely that.
The rain came. The song stayed. And now, somehow, everyone is dancing in it.
Watch the music video of “Kahit Na Umulan” here.
