POPPY
May 27, 2021
1 minute
DANNII LEIVERS
UNKNOWN VENUE, LOS ANGELES
to Poppy through her surreal, borderline disturbing YouTube videos. In front of an opaque screen, in a robotic, childlike voice, the singer filmed herself repeating her own name, eating cotton candy. Her self-described “post-genre” 2020 album, , was the sonic equivalent of a gremlin eating after midnight: the cover art showed the singer in superimposed corpsepaint, while the music mutated from sugary choruses into monstrous nu metal.
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