Pop of the top
May 16, 2021

The best hyper-pop from Australia

Ninajirachi

Australia’s take on the hyperpop is variegated and contested, producing some of the most vibrant and delightfully strange pop in the country - Guardian argues presenting the blooming genre. The stand-out artists at the moment at the continent are: Oh Boy, Ninajirachi ("glassy and exhilarating, drawing in club influences"), Donatachi ("all the kind of obnoxious elements of Top 40 pop, but dialled up to 11”), Cookii, Perto, Daine ("it’s [the genre]created a lot of room for people to experiment and still feel like they have mainstream appeal"), Muki, and Banoffee. Spotify playlist.

Kuru

Video game sounds, abrasive distortion and emotional rap lyrics are a typical digicore cacophony, but that's not all - digicore artists also pull from genres as wide-reaching as midwestern emo, trance, and even Chicago drill, Vice writes in a profile. Everything about this scene of teen musicians - the kids of digicore are mostly between the ages of 15 and 18 years old - centres around the modern Internet landscape; from its origins, to its diversity, right down to how community-oriented it is, including everybody working from their bedroom.

Order in chaos
February 11, 2021

The 45 best hyperpop songs of all time

Slayyyter

"Born of the internet on dark mode, hyperpop is all the sugary sweet appeal of mainstream pop but soaked in steroids – a garish reflection of the all-you-can-eat hunger of the material world... Too much is never enough" - The Forty-Five says in their introduction of an impossible task - ranking hyperpop's 45 best tracks. The list ends with Danny L Harle, starts with Sophie, with 100 Gecs, Charlie XCX, Slayyyter, and many more in between.

Genres are strange, when you're strange
October 30, 2020

Vice: Hyperpop - a genre tag for genre-less music

Charli XCX

Hyperpop pulls heavily from SoundCloud rap, emo, lo-fi trap, PC Music label, as well as from trance, dubstep and chiptune, Vice writes about the fluid genre. They hear Charli XCX, sonic fusionists/chaos-makers 100 gecs, glitchy rappers David Shawty, and animated electronic producers Gupi as representatives of hyper-pop. What is distinctive with this new genre is that its "identity is less rooted in musical genetics than it is a shared ethos of transcending genre altogether, while still operating within the context of pop".