Has there ever been an artist who left a bigger impact on music in a short amount of time? I think not.
Has there ever been an artist who left a bigger impact on music in a short amount of time? I think not
Who the kek is that weirdo?
Excluding Charli XCX, what was the impact?
Literally every hyperpop producer
a man
Literally every hyperpop producer
That microgenre died with the pandemic
Michaelius Jackdaughter
Literally who?
big impact
... on the paving slabs
Who is this
Yes, e.g. Sid Vicious, Kurt Cobain, heck Bowie blowing up in 72 with Ziggy changed a shitton in one go, but it happens less and less often nowadays, so somebody cultivating a cohesive artistic persona and body of work in today's slop era - especially to a high level of technical proficiency - isn't to be sniffed at even if you're not fond of their lifestyle yourself.
Sophie
Producer for a bunch of artists like Rihanna, Madonna etc before coming out as trans, but most well-known for doing a bunch of Charli XCX's tracks and giving her a big part of the schtick she's known for now
Also had a short but influential solo career before dying in a horrendous way, invented this style of maximalist, kinetic sound design (at least in terms of being used in a pop song context as opposed to academic experiments) m.youtube.com
Buddy Holly. id say Jeff Buckley but thats hopeful
Did this tranny intentionally give itself those cheekbones? Please tell me its similar to what the Weeknd did to his face and not a permanent facial reconstruction
It was indeed just prosthetics, it was meant to be a parody/loving homage to celebrity aesthetics taken to an extreme, this is what she looked like without all the stage makeup
thats the joke
hyperpop the movement itself died but it also metastasized before it went out. Pop music has adopted so much of hyperpop's traits and ethos that hyperpop has essentially just usurped pop music.
It's Charli xcx now, sweaty.
SAMUEL
You’re a lying bitch, no one is producing something like hyperpop anymore, not even the hyperpop artists themselves
Sophie and hyperpop was the decadence of pop, he was doing the most degenerate and terrible music out there, I’m gladly he’s dead for good
Hyperpop was never popular. It wasn't in the charts. Normal people have never heard of that crap. Ask any random person on the street if they know what hyperpop is and there is a 99% that they have no idea what you are talking about. Even vaporwave and phonk were more popular than hyperpop ever was.
Like for instance?
Producer for a bunch of artists like Rihanna
Never came out
Madonna
It was just one song and it was terrible
nta but that abracadabra single by Lady Gaga recently very obviously rips off the cadence of many of sophie's beats, wouldn't be surprised if it started out as a co-write from years back
Rihanna fans know those leaks
like I said though, most well known for the solo and Charli XCX stuff
Look I think plenty of the hype around Sophie was exaggerated but it's silly to pretend there's nothing to it
who is this person?
More of a man than you'll ever be
silly to pretend
much like it was silly to pretend to be a woman
i wish transnation the album had been released
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it would have singlehandedly btfo chuds and terfs forever
What he looked like
there are also finished music videos for Plunging Asymptote, Take Me To Dubai, Exhilarate, and a remix of It's Okay To Cry, not to mention XCX World, possibly pro-shots or soundboards of some of her installation performances too
none of this will ever be released because she was a perfectionist to the point of Arthur Russell'ing most of what she made despite the fact it's still good enough most producers would give an arm or a leg to have been the one to come up with it
This is the most infuriating part to me, we didn't even get the most out of what she did manage to make in her lifetime, not that I feel entitled, it just sucks
btfo chuds and terfs
If anything, this video proves that Blanchard was right
That said, yes, this diabolical beat deserved to be officially released. I hope it still will someday
You're the joke, incel.
SHE
LOLOLOLOL
most trany's didn't give a fuck about sophie until that 100gecs song went all normie mainstream (not when it dropped)
We don't sign our posts here.
in hindsight that conspiracy theory about how sophie wasn't really trans and was just mocking the leftist obsession with transhumanism in general was barely even a conspiracy theory. it was obvious as fuck. sophie was literally just a cis man doing a performance art thing.
I think it was more an absurdist thing than 'mocking' leftism/identity politics specifically. if it's taking the mick out of anything via parody it's semantic/conceptual thought or individual identity, period, as any kind of absolute reality. Think about the hodge-podge scrambled half-mermaid half-human costume on the OILS album cover or the lyrics pertaining to some kind of conflict regarding "pretending", it's about the unrealness of reality and the process of how one crafts a semblance of a life within that out of the messy raw material of experience. Taking the mick out of modern concepts like authenticity, superficiality, innate gender identity as a solid constant, comes as a secondary side-effect to that prime directive. Even this reading of the thematics in her work is probably reductive though, I think she was working along multiple axes of possible truth at once. That we got so little to go on, and the fact she apparently had spiritual beliefs, complicates analysis further as it could be working along ideological paradigms foreign to anything we believe in or can guess at. At the very least I think what she was getting at has little specifically to do with a partisan political framework.
P.S. but yes she probably had an idea of transness that was very different to how most trans people think of it going by her quotes. Transhumanism of the 'humanism + technology' sort, or transhumanism of a 'posthumanism' sort? God only knows. Wonder if she left any notes.