Accurate

I can see it meaning something when used as a generic adjective, but def not as a label for a whole subgenre.

only real art rap is dj Lucas

I think it can kind of be attributed to what AG’s initial goal with PC Music was, which was just an alternative approach to Pop based in quirky/alt aesthetics and a kind of “anything goes” take when it comes to music - the kind of genre mashing of nightcore and industrial and vaporwave and trap drums and 808s into normal pop with sticky choruses n s***. The issue is that Charli and Gecs are really the only people out here really doing stuff that sticks to that label - everyone else associated with the brand (basically everyone on the Gecs remix album lmao) only uses certain elements of that. Like I wouldn’t say Tony Velour is a “hyperpop artist” even tho he is in the scene. It’s more an umbrella term that I feel like more describes the kids that have made music since Gecs blew up (like luvox and Alice Gas) than the actual scene but as a term it’s stuck in the public for whatever reason

tl:dr: hyperpop is niggas that use Sophie’s sample pack

Wait now im even more confused, haha.

You say PC Music is:

an alternative approach to Pop based in quirky/alt aesthetics and a kind of “anything goes” take when it comes to music - the kind of genre mashing of nightcore and industrial and vaporwave and trap drums and 808s into normal pop with sticky choruses n s***.

And then the tl;dr says "basically Sophie's sample pack".

But the first description doesn't sound accurate of Sophie's music at all to me. Didn't they create their own kind of digital audio waveforms and fell in love with how "slick" and "rubbery" they sounded, leading to the music on Product? That album isn't anything close to genre mashup, industrial, vapor, trap, etc...

I thought stuff like that album was what justified using the term "PC Music" to describe that style — uniquely digital soundscapes and ironic "online" personas. The closest relative being 90s Eurodance/Danish Pop music, but clearly not the same. (Charli XCX's music doesn't fit that first description to me either.)

Gecs def fits that first description though, but then whats the musical connection between 1000 gecs and Product other than using pitched up vocals? Gecs to me seems way closer to a lot of older artists like Solex and Xiu Xiu (or even Ariel Pink to some degree) than anything found on Product.

I was just making light of the fact that Dylan Brady and a bunch of others from the scene use the metallic drums from her splice pack man lol

but Sophie as a whole I feel like fits the PC Music mission statement pretty well. haven’t listened to Product in a bit outside of MSMSMSM but that feels like a deconstructed take on trap with a very random but fitting interlude in the middle that has vaporwave vibes to me (not super versed on it so I could be wrong abt that ) and then idk even know what genre id classify a song like Hard as. Then on their most recent album you have s*** like this:

which is def industrial, but also for the most part sounds nothing like Infatuation, off the same album. Considering Sophie’s done a lot of production for Charli and was (along w AG) the catalyst for her becoming a different kind of artist, I think people tend to lump them all together because they all work together and have stuff that kind of bleeds together sound wise at times - charli has had Dylan Brady prod and Sophie prod on albums and they don’t sound disjointed or unlike her style. I think some people fit the label more than others but once u get into nailing down what it means it gets complicated and kinda meaningless - it’s really just an umbrella term for these ppl that have come up together that’s only somewhat accurate and just mostly based on Gecs who have become the poster boys for it

art rap is such stupid term

just how hyperpop is stupid

ktt2.com/a-introduction-on-pc-music-who-and-what-they-are-83863

shoutout this post

that's the point

This is great. 👍🏼

lmaoo where her pack at

this was the slap

took a lot of mdma to this shut too lol

Hyperpop?

Just call it robot music

You and me both