Years before it became associated with an algorithm-driven playlist on streaming services, hyperpop was an unruly and nebulous internet subculture driven by independent musicians obsessed with pop ...

Unlike punk, emo, grunge, psychobilly, this niche that’s been called "Hyperpop" for at least the past year and a half is keen to reach the mainstream, albeit through experimental means… By Emma Madden ...

What started as a way to categorize "genre-less" music has evolved into a music phenomenon After coining the term in 2019, Spotify left many of us wondering, "What is hyperpop?" What started as a way ...

"Being music," in the all-encompassing sense, seems to be the aspiration of the genre 100 gecs has come to represent: hyperpop. Since the 2010s, that name has been a controversial catch-all for a ...

In 2014, music fans and critics began paying close attention to a mysterious group of artists who’d started releasing tracks online. They were part of PC Music, a loose electronic-music collective ...

Jane Remover and underscores: both young, both producing music since they were even younger and both pioneers in the hyperpop landscape. With the release of their respective debut albums in 2021, ...

Hyperpop is a generation-defining style of music that reflects Generation Z’s nihilistic disposition toward the issues of our time. It is as ironic and self-satirizing as we are. It reflects our ...

Underscores, the musical pen name of April Harper Grey, has quickly risen to the top of the growing hyperpop genre. Her 2021 debut album “fishmonger” brought a breath of fresh air to the genre, ...

The microgenre — fueled by teen upstarts like osquinn and glaive, and more established names like 100 gecs and A.G. Cook — has a modest but dedicated following, and many different kinds of sounds. By ...