Based in:
Los Angeles, California
Active:
2015–present
I first heard of her:
from a post that compared her music to that of Jack Off Jill
Sound:
I initially said that “Jack Off Jill is not the first comparison
I’d make,” but now that she has covered Jack Off Jill’s
“Fear of Dying”, I guess Poppy herself disagrees.
But bizarre as it might seem, I’m inclined to draw a comparison to
Sparks!
She started out with a public persona that was largely a performance
(à la Ron Mael), and much of her early output had a
satirical bent.
But even more Sparksy has been her genre-hopping: in her short career
Poppy has careened from punk to ska to 8-bit to dance-pop to electronica
to shoegaze to glitch-pop to metal, and I’ve left out some genres
for the sake of brevity.
Further listening:
As of 2025, Poppy has ten songs in my top twenty and eighteen in my top
one hundred.
That means that the following list features, at best, my
nineteenth-favorite song of hers.
I’m also skipping some extraordinarily good songs in order to
cover more eras of her career.
And yet this short compilation tops nearly every other artist’s
complete oeuvre, if’n you ask me.
Working backwards…
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| “The Cost of Giving Up” (2024) |
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| “V.A.N.” (2024) |
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| “Zig” (2023) |
| | “The Cutting Edge” (leaked 2023) |
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| “Stagger” (2022) |
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| “FYB” (2022) |
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| “Flux” (2021) |
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| “Never Find My Place” (2021) |
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| “Sit / Stay” (2020) |
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| “Meat” (2019) |
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| “Choke” (2019) |
| | “Heavy Metal” (leaked 2019) |