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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, Quinn, 16, became the young face of the emergent music genre hyperpop. Quinn's genre-defying debut album "drive-by lullabies" shows her grappling with anxiety. She told Insider she was ...

Reviews may call it unforgiving and harsh, maximalist and blown-out, high-pitched and squeaky, electronic and glitchy. While these terms are sometimes applicable, the genre of hyperpop’s most defining ...

One night in February, osquinn got into an argument on Twitter and decided to make a song about it. From her bedroom in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, the 15-year-old logged onto a server on the ...

The Hyperpop Evolution: The origins of hyperpop, as is the case with every other genre, are tough to nail down. It’s generally accepted that it was born in the UK, sometime during the 2010s. But the ...

In a throwaway tweet last August, British pop star Charli XCX, to the annoyed reluctance of her fans, declared hyperpop dead. The genre, sometimes called future pop (mainly because it sounds ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 100 Gecs were acclaimed as the “future of pop” when they released their first album 1000 Gecs in 2019. The US ...

In October, a creator posted a video singing Gen Alpha slang over a popular hyperpop beat. After initially mocking it, TikTokers started parodying the song and turning it into rock and pop anthems. "I ...

To commemorate 10 years of SOPHIE's debut, World Cafe put together a mix of "proto-hyperpop" tracks. Years before it became associated with an algorithm-driven playlist on streaming services, hyperpop ...