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245. SOPHIE BIPP (2013)
Single, later featured on compilation album Product

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVc3Z-bG6Eo

Key lyric: I can make you feel better, if you let me

In a way, SOPHIEs music feels designed to immediately repulse, only to somehow draw you back when her songs inevitably get stuck in your head. This is manufactured music; crisp production, perfect beats, a voice modified until it is distinctly inhuman. On the surface, annoying; in time, an undeniable pop classic. SOPHIE was an artist who was easy to question was she mocking modern pop music through exaggeration, or was this a legitimate attempt to push the genre to its breaking point? In all honesty, it feels like a little of both, which is what makes it so fun.

In the months since her untimely death, Ive realized how strangely comforting SOPHIEs music is even when she started dropping bangers that made Nine Inch Nails sound like easy listening. The overly clean production somehow feels more authentic than most contemporary pop music to be produced in this way suggests clear artistic intent. While almost too sugary to digest upon first release, the influence of BIPP has seeped its way across the industry the success of later artists like Charli XCX and 100 Gecs with this sound led to a new subgenre being coined, hyperpop. SOPHIE was clearly trying to capture the sound of the future with BIPP, she absolutely succeeded.

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