Exploring The Wacky World Of Hyperpop
Shaping pop one synth or sample at a time
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first-century, popular music has developed in several ways: 50s rock n roll, 60s punk, 70s disco, 80s hardcore punk, 90s grunge, and the early 00s boy bands. Given pop’s many changes, it’s clear a melange of sounds would give rise.
That sound being Hyperpop.
Hyper pop is a sound that spread in the late 2010s overwhelming streaming services with thousands of listens each day and millions each month.
Let’s dive into hyperpop and see why it’s dominating the music world.
What’s hyperpop?
Hyperpop is a sub-genre of pop that uses electro-pop, EDM, Hip-Hop, Avant-Garde, Rock, and Metal to create a flurry of sounds, and came to fruition in 2013 as PC Music because of British producer A. G. Cook’s label PC Music.
The name Hyperpop is derived from SoundCloud’s nightcore scene; a style of music that pitch-shifted a pop song with an accompanied anime art cover. Hyperpop really took off in 2019 when Spotify created a playlist named Hyperpop featuring 100 Gecs (rising stars in the genre) on the cover. The playlist racked up 120k subscribers and is the source for the newest hyperpop.
