"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 ...
Unlike punk, emo, grunge, psychobilly, this niche that’s been called "Hyperpop" for at least the past year and a half is keen to reach the mainstream, albeit through experimental means… By Emma Madden ...
Years before it became associated with an algorithm-driven playlist on streaming services, hyperpop was an unruly and nebulous internet subculture driven by independent musicians obsessed with pop ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reviews may call it unforgiving and harsh, maximalist and blown-out, high-pitched and squeaky, electronic and glitchy. While these terms are sometimes applicable, the genre of hyperpop’s most defining ...