format: vocal
voting categories: internet | autotune | catchiness | hurt ears | gec in pants
Hyperpop is a music genre/movement that is characterised by a maximalist or exaggerated take on popular music. Artists within the genre typically integrate pop and avant-garde sensibilities while drawing on themes commonly found in electronic, hip hop, and dance music.
Hyperpop reflects an exaggerated, eclectic, and self-referential approach to pop music and typically employs elements such as brash synth melodies, autotuned "earworm" vocals, and excessive compression and distortion, as well as surrealist or nostalgic references to 2000s Internet culture and the Web 2.0 era. 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.
Notable artists of the hyperpop scene include 100 Gecs, Charli XCX, SOPHIE, and Dorian Electra.