"Danny L Harle and the rest of the PC Music org folded post-electroclash, Adbusters-style culture jamming with 4chan-y shitpost nihilism to a gabba beat. Clenched with irony, hyperpop chomped its bubblegum until the bubble burst. Behind production boards, its agents worked with geniuses like Charli XCX to remake pop in her own image. But in their own work, they went hyperprog. SOPHIE released a sprawling double album of shapeshifting anthems and transgenre experiments, followed by a posthumous one that largely failed"
"Clenched with irony, hyperpop chomped its bubblegum until the bubble burst. Behind production boards, its agents worked with geniuses like Charli XCX to remake pop in her own image. But in their own work, they went hyperprog. SOPHIE released a sprawling double album of shapeshifting anthems and transgenre experiments, followed by a posthumous one that largely failed to realize even loftier socio-political-rave ambitions. A.G. Cook and Arca released triple- plus albums accessorized by coding, fashion collabs, video art, re-dos. Anything, it sometimes felt like, instead"
"But in their own work, they went hyperprog. SOPHIE released a sprawling double album of shapeshifting anthems and transgenre experiments, followed by a posthumous one that largely failed to realize even loftier socio-political-rave ambitions. A.G. Cook and Arca released triple- plus albums accessorized by coding, fashion collabs, video art, re-dos. Anything, it sometimes felt like, instead of being vulnerable enough to risk failing at making something someone might truly, deeply love."
Hyperpop combined rambunctiousness, pleasure-forward aesthetics, and sonic invention in tempo and production while maintaining a clenched, ironic stance that avoided earnestness. PC Music artists like Danny L Harle embraced post-electroclash culture jamming and online shitpost nihilism, producing glossy pop work with collaborators such as Charli XCX while pursuing hyper-progressive solo projects. SOPHIE released sprawling, transgenre double albums with ambitious socio-political-rave aims. A.G. Cook and Arca released expansive, multi-part albums paired with coding, fashion, and video projects. Harle positions Cerulean as a formal, prog-ambitious debut drawing on classical reference points, ocean and heartbreak muses, and Eurotrance lineage.
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