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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article on SPIN. Last spring, Elliott Platt was cleaning fish tanks at his local pet store when he ...

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 ...

Gutierrez chose the stage name Glaive, a reference to a weapon from Dark Souls III. In July, he released his debut album, I Care So Much That I Don’t Care At All, on the major label Interscope. Now 18 ...

To add another feather in his cap, glaive started popping up on Spotify's official hyperpop playlist, which currently houses a crooning, midtempo ballad called "icarus." (Other artists currently in ...

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 ...

Those who know me in real life can attest to a few things: First, that my astrological chart is 110% accurate, and second, that my music taste has become notably less listenable. In the days of yore, ...

Last spring, Elliott Platt was cleaning fish tanks at his local pet store when he received the luckiest news of his young life. He’d been laid off. COVID cutbacks: a tale as old as 2020 itself. With ...