Happy new year! In the summary of today’s musical history, we highlight an artist of functionality of the size of a pint born that day. But first, what notable figures in music have birthday today?
Milt Jackson (1923) – Jazz vibraphonist and founding member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, known for composing the jazz standard “Bags’ Groove.”
Grandmaster Flash (1958) – DJ pioneer and hyp -hop production, instrumental in the configuration of the genre with stripes and back.
Morgan Fisher (1950) – British musician and keyboardist, for his paintings with Mott the Houple and later solo environmental and experimental projects.
Today, we spotlight viral sensation turned Grammy-nominated metal starlet Poppy.
“Hi, I’m Poppy. Hi, I’m Poppy. Hi, I’m Poppy.”
Do you love Grimes, Dorian Electra, and are you navigating the mysterious valley in a midnight existential crisis?You’ll love the poppy, who serves apocalyptic visions with a bubblegum-like look.
Genres: Hyperpop, industrial metal, existential synthwave, avant-garde AI-core.
With her doll-like aesthetic and enigmatic persona, Poppy is an artist who may have stepped straight out of a dystopian anime about humanity’s obsession with technology. Initially known as a YouTube oddity blending surrealism and satire, she transformed into a genre-defying musician whose work spans hyperpop, metal, and experimental art-rock.
Poppy, Née Moriah Rose Pereira in 1995, began her career with YouTube minimalist videos that combined children’s wonders and disturbing nuances. His first album in 2017 Poppy. (2018) and, more complete, in I Discing (2020), where enthusiasts met “The Real Poppy”.
If there is such a thing. “I think everyone uses a mask in entertainment,” he told me a few years ago. “I know that is true for me at this time. When a recorder, a camera or a microphone presented in front of someone, you do not get 1000%. Do not take away the mask.
Its recent maximum assignment is the fantastic Poppy television series, which a YouTube commentator described as “as if Eric Andre was a nice empanada and did not make hallucinogen. ” Look here.
Happy Birthday, Poppy, you’re the best!
Poppy’s first viral video was “Poppy Eats Cotton Candy,” which garnered millions of views for its strange simplicity.
Don’t be afraid to burn things and start over.
With the intensity of a 3-alarm fireplace in a candy store, I Don’t Agree (2020) marks the full embrace of poppy commercial steel while retaining traces, all things, its pop-inspired roots of Brian Wilson. Think of “Bloodmoney” bristling with spiky guitar riffs and scathing commentary on capitalism. Beyond the disturbing theaters, a young woman who locates her feet.
“Concrete” is a quintessential poppy, combining discordant commercial steel chaos with Brian and Saccharine Pop-worthy guitar. The coda will have you bouncing with excitement on the street through making a song “Cover Me In Concrete”.
Listen on Spotify or Apple Music.
One day, someone will write Poppy’s biography. In the meantime, I interviewed Poppy for Vanity Fair in 2020.
Poppy collaborated with Diplo in “Time is up”, one of his most productive songs of the pre-i words; Diplo worked with Madonna generating the song “Bitch I Am Madonna”; Madonna and McCartney played Live8 in 2005.
1953: Hank Williams dies at age 29, cementing his legacy as one of country music’s most influential figures. If you’re in New York, consider ringing in the new year at the 21st Annual New Year’s Hank-o-rama, a musical tribute to the man at the Bowery Electric.
1959: Johnny Cash touches a loose concert in San Quentin prison, inspiring a Merle Haggard at the audience.
1964: The first summit of the Airs Pops, the Beatles, Dusty Springfield and the Rolling Stones.
1962: The Beatles audition for Decca Records in London but are rejected in favor of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes.
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