base talk Can we retire the term 'hyperpop'?

[Phaunzie]

I recently went looking at the wiki for Lisa Rockstar and saw hip hop with hyperpop beats which led me to a realization, what is even hyperpop at this point? There is nothing that distinguish hyperpop from genres like electropop or glitch pop. At this point, it makes more sense to call it electropop, bitpop, technopop or future pop. Hell, IDM or EDM is an adequate term to call to the fringe sectors of 'hyperpop'. When you listen to modern day hyperpop, electroclash, acid techno and rave are the literal genres that the music pull from. Why not calling what they really are and not that made up term that doesn't means anything at this point and doesn't provide an accurate portrayal of the soundscape of the music. To the girls, that would say it is different because of more raunchy themes, higher bpm and more hookier choruses, that is electroclash as a genre. 

 

Hyperpop when used as a category also doesn't make sense because most of albums and songs placed within are very different from each other. Mercurial World and Picture Perfect are not the same in any capacity. Hell, if they wanted to add a real hyperpop album they would put in this masterpiece.

 

 

Crazy Rolling in Money i.e the original Money Machine birthed 100 gecs. 

 

Edited January 11 by Phaunzie

[JO1s]

Using a kpop artist song who are notoriously bad at describing the sounds of their songs is not a good example.

[Bussea]

i've always found the term reductive so yes!

[Pavement Princess]

okay 💜

[Pavement Princess]

okay 💜

[PopKills]

Isn't Hyperpop just a pop song with all its stereotypical features (heavy bass, shiny synths, autotune, etc.) done over the top sonically, usually vain lyrically and futuristic visually

[Contessa]

They pull inspiration from different genres and blend them so I understand why a new term is needed to describe the newly created sound/style. But I also understand the frustration because unlike a lot of genres in the traditional sense, hyperpop seems to evolve more quickly and broadly because any genre is game when it comes to the elements they pull from.

[Saint James]

1 hour ago, JO1s said:

Using a kpop artist song who are notoriously bad at describing the sounds of their songs is not a good example.

retire calling Lisa kpop

[RideOrDie]

gays why do we have to be insufferable and pretentious about genres and labels and words... it's literally just language so we can understand things. no one knows what a ******* electroclash is. hyperpop became sort of an umbrella term that encompasses most of those genres and that's ok. we live in a genre-less world rn where an album can pull from like 10 different vibes, it's futile to get nitpicky about it. also idk who called mercurial world a hyperpop album.

[Digitalism]

No because unlike other trendy terms hyperpop has specific characteristics and is easily recognizable 

[Jeremiah]

B itch wants to retire hyperpop but wants to use "future pop" ijbol

Edited January 11 by Jeremiah

[pink lightning]

Genres... are a funny little concept, aren't they?

[JO1s]

37 minutes ago, Saint James said:

retire calling Lisa kpop

She's a kpop artist. Always will be.

[ShadeIena]

Electroclash is def not hyper pop.

 

Electroclash is a precursor of dubstep and acid techno

[ArtDeco]

hyperpop forever

[holyground13]

Hyperpop from my understanding is taking the essential elements of a pop song and pushing them to the max / overemphasizing them and incorporating new (usually electronic) sounds and timbres in the mix.

 

Electropop from my understanding is more traditional pop with electronic instrumentation but not necessarily futuristic or new sounding sounds or timbres.

[l3disko]

hyperpop is such a pretentious fake genre name that means nothing and is used by the most insufferable people in the world.

[Escape]

It's pretentious so yeah.

[Phaunzie]

3 hours ago, holyground13 said:

Hyperpop from my understanding is taking the essential elements of a pop song and pushing them to the max / overemphasizing them and incorporating new (usually electronic) sounds and timbres in the mix.

 

Electropop from my understanding is more traditional pop with electronic instrumentation but not necessarily futuristic or new sounding sounds or timb

That description comes from PC music and not hyperpop.

 

5 hours ago, Jeremiah said:

B itch wants to retire hyperpop but wants to use "future pop" ijbol

Future Pop is a genre, and has been established since the 90s. It is not a new genre and this is what Future Pop sounds like.

 

 

[flower moon]

hyperpop was hijacked so yes