Before kurtains reached the end of his set, the crowd joined him in singing ”Happy Birthday” to glaive, who celebrated his ...
"Being music," in the all-encompassing sense, seems to be the aspiration of the genre 100 gecs has come to represent: hyperpop. Since the 2010s, that name has been a controversial catch-all for a ...
What started as a way to categorize "genre-less" music has evolved into a music phenomenon After coining the term in 2019, Spotify left many of us wondering, "What is hyperpop?" What started as a way ...
Artists don’t necessarily set out to create new genres, but in the case of hyperpop it’s not hard to trace the genre back to a handful of like-minded individuals associated with DIY music label PC ...
From SOPHIE, Charli XCX and Dorian Electra to 100 gecs, food house and osquinn, get to know the 15 records that define hyperpop. One of the biggest misconceptions about hyperpop is that it’s new. Sure ...
The Hyperpop Evolution: The origins of hyperpop, as is the case with every other genre, are tough to nail down. It’s generally accepted that it was born in the UK, sometime during the 2010s. But the ...
To celebrate Pride Month, we are looking at the top genres that the LGBTQ+ community has influenced, one of which is hyperpop. Many associate the queer community with the bright sounds of disco, the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 100 Gecs were acclaimed as the “future of pop” when they released their first album 1000 Gecs in 2019. The US ...
The phenomenon that is hyperpop inherently implies a mixing and mashing of genres, or perhaps the desire to transcend restrictive structures altogether — an ethos that was exemplified to a tee by 100 ...