The influence of cloud rap, emo and lo-fi trap, trance music, dubstep, and chiptune are evident in hyperpop, as well as more surreal and haphazard qualities that are pulled heavily from hip hop since the mid-2010s. In the belief of Vice journalist Eli Enis, hyperpop is less rooted in musical technicalities than 'a shared ethos of transcending genre altogether, while still operating within the context of pop.' Artists in the style reflect a 'tendency to rehabilitate styles of music that have long since gone out of fashion, constantly poking at what is or isn’t 'cool' or artful.' The style may blend elements from a range of styles, including bubblegum pop, trance, Eurohouse, emo rap, nu metal, cloud rap, J-pop and K-pop. The music zooms between beauty and ugliness, as shimmery melodies collide with mangled instrumentation.' Writing for American Songwriter, Joe Vitagliano described it as 'an exciting, bombastic and iconoclastic genre - if it can even be called a 'genre'- featuring 'saw synths, auto-tuned vocals, glitch-inspired percussion and a distinctive late-capitalism- dystopia vibe.' Artists often 'straddle the avant-garde and the pop charts simultaneously.' The Wall Street Journal 's Mark Richardson described the genre as intensifying the 'artificial' tropes of popular music, resulting in 'a cartoonish wall of noise that embraces catchy tunes and memorable hooks. Common features include vocals that are heavily processed metallic, melodic percussion sounds pitch-shifted synths catchy choruses short song lengths and 'shiny, cutesy aesthetics' juxtaposed with angst-ridden lyrics. Hyperpop reflects an exaggerated, eclectic, and self-referential approach to pop music and typically employs elements such as brash synth melodies, Auto-Tuned ' earworm' vocals, and excessive compression and distortion, as well as surrealist or nostalgic references to 2000s Internet culture and the Web 2.0 era.

The genre spread within younger audiences through social media platforms such as TikTok.

Music associated with this scene received wider attention in August 2019 when Spotify renamed an existing playlist featuring artists such as Cook and 100 Gecs to 'hyperpop'. Cook and affiliates of his PC Music collective, including Sophie and Charli XCX. ĭeriving influence from a varied range of sources, the development of hyperpop solidified into a recognizable style in connection with the mid-2010s output of A. Digicore is a contemporaneous movement that is sometimes conflated with 'hyperpop' due to its overlapping artists. The movement is often linked to LGBTQ+ online communities and many key figures identify as transgender, non-binary, or gay.

Artists tagged with the label typically integrate pop and avant-garde sensibilities, drawing on tropes from electronic, hip hop, and dance music.

Hyperpop (sometimes called digicore ) is a loosely-defined music movement and microgenre characterized by a maximalist or exaggerated take on popular music.

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