“For the music video for ‘I Disagree,’ I got to set record label executives on fire and gas them, which is something I’d always wanted to do.” I believe that it’s a chapter that I can finally close, and I feel at peace with it.” “Different things that I would like to explore. “I just feel like there were a lot of things previously in the situation that were holding me back,” Poppy says. While she wouldn’t elaborate much on parting ways with Sinclair, she admits she now has more creative control. This person glamorizes suicide and has used it many times in the past to manipulate me. I was never ‘an accomplice’ to this person’s past actions like some believe - I was a person who suffered similar wrong doings as one of his former partners brought to light. In late December, she posted a statement to Twitter regarding their split: “I met this person at a young age and things were seemingly good for a while until echoes from his past were too loud to ignore. Part of that was seemingly dissolving her relationship with her longtime creative partner, Titanic Sinclair. “The last two were more for the sake of the storyline that was created on my YouTube channel, and I Disagree is about destroying all of that and stepping out and being comfortable with the unknown and the questions that you’ve been asking,” she says. I Disagree might be Poppy’s third album, but to her it feels more like her first, bringing the darkest parts of her previous work to the forefront this time. “To me it’s like shedding an old version of yourself and stepping into a new light, specifically in the bridge when the camera wraps around and you just see my face is illuminated,” she explains of the visual. It’s something Poppy portrays visually in the video for “Anything Like Me,” directed by Jesse Draxler. “I wouldn’t say the album as a whole is a rebirth, but it’s about destroying an older version of yourself and not being afraid of the unknown,” confirms the singer. What she means, specifically, is a new kind of honesty. “I feel that the fans that have been following me for a long time have been waiting for this,” she says. Influenced by Blondie, Nine Inch Nails, and David Bowie, a song on I Disagree is often what a Marilyn Manson and Grimes mashup would sound like.īlending pop, nu metal, grindcore, and prog-rock, Poppy has created her own sonic framework and started from scratch in a lot of ways. While Am I a Girl? delivered a taste of metal, the new album sees Poppy diving head-first into the alternative world, moving post-genre. “So it’s me going against the machine and going against things that I’ve been told.”Īfter releasing her glossy pop debut Poppy.Computer in 2017 and the club-ready record Am I a Girl? in 2018, Poppy has shattered her musical image with I Disagree. “I disagree with a lot of people, a lot of people’s opinions and a lot of people’s opinions of me, and I don’t think that art should be looked at in terms of a machine,” Poppy says over the phone.
Perhaps the closest people will get to knowing the real Poppy is through her latest album, I Disagree.
Poppy is a real girl, but she’s a mystery too. Hearing that Poppy - who’s real name is Moriah Rose Pereira - has a sweet, girlish drawl and not the voice of a robot is almost jarring. To some, she’s a cult leader with a machine-generated voice. Poppy has, after all, built up a following with her persona, known for YouTube videos and Japanese pop tracks. After years of being an internet phenom, hearing Poppy’s voice is like having a spirit visit you.
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