@evaquielion
She keeps a lot of her metaphorical tendencies actually & melodic inflections but incorporates it into brats stream of consciousness style, she understood the assignment truly
Slayyyter strutting butt ass naked down Hollywood in the middle of the night for a music video with people eyeing her left and right … An unfathomable level of commitment.. She deserves it all idc idc
I have seen this album cover so many times & I still have no idea what artist this is or what their music sounds like & its the fact that nobody really cares either ctfu
Charli XCX bringing back Poppin Bottles In The Ice ™ x Ed Banger Records core & Porter bringing back 2012 blog house Owl City Carly Rae Jepsen Good Time bright colors Internet dot com. It's like the yin & yang of early 2010s pop being restored
Truly a bizarre experience seeing regular ppl jam out to some “I wanna dance to A.G. I wanna dance w George. I wanna dance to SOPHIE.” while definitely having no idea who those ppl are ctfu
“What’s Next for Sarah?” (2014), the semi-autobiographical, mini comedy series starring and produced by Jeanette McCurdy. Clip from Episode 3: Sarah meets Gloriana, allegedly based on Ariana Grande
@lilyilichil
Its to optimize maximum engagement with every single song, it’s honestly so genius & advanced im surprised kpop (typically pretty conservative business wise) is able to pull it off
Didn’t expect Blackpink Lisa to be the next culprit mainstream artist hopping on hyperpop aesthetics but she got the nonbinary mullet & everything so ik she fr with it
One oomf theorized that this would be the last Charli XCX album & it’s been the most annoying voice in the back of my head since I saw that take like why would u say that
This is bc ur listening in a post-hyperpop world. I promise u. The industry changed after this. We are literally living in the “future of pop” that the journalists wrote ab on PC Music a decade ago. This was insane for the time
It’s okay… somehow expected it to go harder production wise, the lyrics and vocals aren’t giving much either
It has a couple catchy songs but i found it rather underwhelming overall
Probably one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen that discredits every subcultural scene that the mainstream industry machine pillages & strips on the daily for commercial consumption, wow
sorry but the vast majority of consumption happening on streaming means we can do a pretty good job of measuring whether or not people are actually listening to something. the thing people are listening to is what will have impact. thanks for playing
Like im basically a product of being a 2014 charli fan + being raised on avant-garde sound art and Japanese electro pop + being a childhood ke$ha fan, which all snowballed me into discovering SOPHIE and PC Music and it’s history from there really
SOPHIE's lasting influence on the kpop industry, a (very long) thread.
“It’s dance pop music just like everything else. That’s the only type of music that exists, and anyone that says anything else is a liar” - SOPHIE (2013)
After being completely obsessed w pc music’s sound, i kept on trying to find pc adjacent music, so that led to the y2k internet music scene with slayyyter, that kid, ayesha etc,, and then 100 gecs and 2020 url fests happened and then I got twitter
NewJeans’s sound and image and this entire next wave of fifth gen kpop is definitely prompted by Pinkpantheress’s rise, which must be insane for her bc she’s like the biggest kpop stan in the western pop industry 😭
Newbies not knowing that ethel cain is trans is like mindboggling to me bc what drew me before anything else was that here was a trans woman circulating among the hwordpop world from Alabama with a southern baptist pastiche persona making pseudo religious indie music