#Poppy Stagger EP

[marinaandtheselenite]

Poppy - Stagger (2022)

[yabellies]

locked from the inside

[cultofpoppy-tm]

“I’d rather be in conversation with somebody that tells me, ‘Hey, you should check out this film,’ as opposed to me just having advertisements projected onto me every time I look at the screen. It’s quite upsetting, actually.” Poppy says this plainly, in the same soft tone with which she sings, without a hint of pretension but rather the self-awareness of a sensitive soul who understands on a fundamentally deep level what makes her tick.

KERRANG!

[rogueish]

Still waiting for Demi's long-promised Dimmu Borgir collab, but their rock remakes album is a lot of fun. Other rock-adjacent things I've been enjoying include Poppy's EP Stagger (which I like more than her more recent, but also more pop-y, album), and Sizzy Rocket's indie sleaze album Rat.

[virginmiri99]

POPPY ZIG ALBUM REVIEW

Tracklist in order

Church Outfit 0/10 out of principle

This song is literally tiktok bait the lyrics are the most nonsense lyrics poppy has ever written its not even camp like immature couture album. Horrible intro song, shouldnt even be on the album, should be deleted and forgotten about. If youre going to make a house beat song at least make it SLAY CAMP. Even Tiffany Young eating you up!!! BOOOOOOO 🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓

Knockoff 8/10

SHE THINK SHE GRIMES 🤣 anyway when this was pre released it was a welcome electronic change and I enjoy the deep beats. But if this was going to be a fashion fashion rich song I wish it was... more.

Hard 5/10

Its just alright. Its just... not special to me. Also I cant get over "dark... my sense of humor is so dark.." OK WHITE WOMAN. THIS SONG SUCKS.

What It Becomes 8.9999374/10

NOW we're getting somewhere... The beginning of this song makes me levitate. I love how it builds, its got a concept, it rolls with it, and it works. But, a common theme on this album, I just wish it had a little more to it.

Flicker 8/10

It flows perfectly from What It Becomes, I consider them sister songs. I love the stings.

1s + 0s 9/10

initially I didnt like this song when I first heard it on my lunch break, but after listening to it a few times I actually really like it. Its like the better version of the Stagger ep.

Zig 7/10

I cant take this song seriously. The lyrics are stupid but I have yet to decide if the rest of the song makes for it. Leaning on it doesnt. The heaviest song on the album. When you zig I zag and zig zag. Poppy is truly the voice of our generation.

Linger 10/10

I loveee that guitar at the beginning, it sets the vibes immediately. I love love the way it turns into electronic for the chorus and goes back down afterwards. Second fav song on the album.

The Attic 9/10

We can all have a little pinkpanthress... as a treat

Motorbike 10/10 BEST SONG ON THE ALBUM

THE BEST SONG ON THE ALBUM... sooo catchy also she is hot in the mv and also gay song... WE LOVE YOU POPPY!

Prove It 4/10

I have no idea why I hate it.

OVER ALL: 7/10 album. Church Outfit is a blight upon the album. Over all, I like this album more than Flux and 100% MORE than fuck ass STAGGER. Give it a listen. sound of the winter.

[lunapaper]

Poppy’s Sunday best is beautiful and brutal. 

In her latest clip for ‘Church Outfit,’ the singer taps into her dance background, twisting and contorting herself in a variety of ways like some sort of gothic exorcism as industrial bass throbs beneath her.  

Returning to the grittier stylings of 2020’s I Disagree, Poppy’s vocals are crushed under a thick layer of distortion, though her words still manage to break through, proclaiming ‘Life is a commercial for death/And you're hypnotized by the advertisement.’ 

Says the singer about her shift in musical direction (via NME): 

‘It’s an artist’s responsibility to always change. I don’t think I’d want to be in my body if I was repeating the same thing over and over again. I’m only competing with myself. I will continue to write the story until I get tired of the book. Then, I’ll write another one.’ 

So glad to see Poppy back on the hard stuff (✿◠‿◠) 

Poppy’s Stagger EP is out now. Read the review for her 2021 album Flux here.  

- Bianca B. 

[loveboyisauce24]

Stagger Ep - Poppy

For me this Ep is like going back to the Rock of the 90's and 80's and in every song it shows except for stagger.

Poppy with I disagree taught us fury and anger but with Flux she taught us to flow and move on

In this Ep you can see that poppy experimented

Stagger (the title track) is the only song From the ep where poppy sings rude and is mad at someone but with the next song she's better

My favorite track is Stagger but for the other songs each one is amazing

This ep deserves an 8/10

[cryinginthetub]

Song of the Day 15/04/2022

Title: FYB

Artist: Poppy

Album: Stagger - EP

Genre: Punk Rock

Year: 2022

[odetofrnk]

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[seveninaweek]

Her bangggssss !🤩🤩🤩

[blackpinkofficial]

[ARTICLE] EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BLACKPINK.

Coachella has a long history of overlooking women, and 2019 shows some big changes: not only are Western women getting more of a chance, but Japanese and South Korean bands too. As Blackpink takes to the stage in California, we take a look at perhaps East Asia's biggest girlband

t has probably not escaped your notice by now that K-Pop is kinda big worldwide. BTS are getting the kind of fawning adoration in London and New York that The Beatles once got, and other bands are taking part in the Korean Invasion too: Blackpink, a relatively young South Korean girlband, will become the first K-Pop act to ever play Coachella.

It’s worth noting Coachella has expanded its vision to other parts of Asia as well: Perfume will also be the first Japanese pop act to play the huge California festival. But Blackpink are particularly notable as they have achieved staggering success since their debut single, 'BOOMBAYAH', in 2016: the sort of success only a few bands, like Girl’s Generation, knew before them. But where their predcessors failed to break the western market, Blackpink look set to become international superstars.

K-Pop might not be your thing: it draws a lot on western pop tropes, is almost impossibly slick, and as an industry it isn’t without its fair share of problems. However, if the music or the atmosphere isn’t for you, it’s still worth getting to know one of the biggest girlbands in the world: Blackpink are perfectly engineered to get stuck in your head, and are a fascinating insight into what pop music is today.

Backstory

Blackpink, like a lot of South Korean pop music, came out of the country’s particular system of training: a kind of pop music conservatoire. YG Entertainment, the group’s Korean team, house their own training program which the band members began to join around 2010. YG tried potential band members out all across the world, which shows in the international lives of the four members: Jisoo is a South Korean native, as was Jennie who went on to spend time in New Zealand and is fluent in English; Rosé, who lived in Melbourne, auditioned in Sydney; Lisa auditioned in her native Thailand. The preference is for young, ethnically Korean performers fluent in the language but that’s flexible: Lisa didn’t speak a word of Korean before coming to train.

Arriving in Seoul, the band estimated that there were between 10-20 aspiring performers all going through the same training: 12 hours a day, seven days a week, learning to dance, sing and rap. Monthly tests helped to prove people’s strengths and eliminate the weakest in the pack: one scored an A, B or C. There are plenty of videos out there on YouTube of people who flunked out of the training to become a K-Pop star.

The members all started at different times: Jennie joined in 2010, Lisa and Jisoo in 2011, and Rose in 2012. They debuted in 2016. It was hard training, difficult for those who had moved away from home, but the four bonded, and are all close friends. Which is good when you only get one day off a fortnight.

The members

As previously mentioned, there are four members: Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé. Jennie often leads off songs and is a solid thriple-threat; Jisoo and Rosé are usually the ones bringing you vocals; Lisa is a top notch rapper.

Becoming an 'idol' in South Korea also carries with it the burden of needing to seem astonishingly perfect. One could argue this might be why bands like SixBomb go through extensive plastic surgery (they featured both their before and after appearances in the video for their song ‘Becoming Prettier’) or why the lead singer of boy band SHINee was found dead in his apartment in 2017 with a note saying he was “broken from inside”. It also leads to their members having to portray images that are jointly virginal and also deeply available: one of the first big scandals involved Jong Hyun back in 2010, back when South Korea's paparazzi started to boom. K-Pop fans can be known to be particularly judgmental of acts: take for example the infamous ‘black ocean’ of 2008, when the ur-Girls Generation, SNSD, came on stage to a purposeful blackout of the entire audience’s glowsticks as a protest. You can hear them fighting back the tears as they perform to what looks like an empty stadium.

Blackpink seem interested in getting away from that expectation. “We always wanted to be out there, to be more true to ourselves and a little more free,” Jennie told Billboard earlier this year. “Even we can get things wrong sometimes. We want to just show them the real us.”

K-Pop idols are known for often being very fluid as to how many creative projects they have on the go: bands like After School, for example, where members ‘graduate’ and new ones enter, also features sub-groups Orange Caramel and A.S. Red & Blue. Girls Generation, LOONA and other big bands also have sub-groups and solo careers. Blackpink is no different: though they’re still going strong, Jennie has also released her first single as a solo artist. It’s sort of like the Avengers all having their own movies: a way of maintaining the brand without over-working the main unit.

Songs and albums

Like most K-Pop bands, Blackpink had a debut performance of a debut single which was the litmus test over whether they would be a bop or a flop. That single, Boombayah, is a personal favourite: it’s probably the most dynamic and poppy of their universally dynamic and poppy music, not dropping into anything sultry or slow. It’s also got a great dance routine (part of the fun of K-Pop) and the video became the fastest debut music video of a K-Pop act to reach 100 million views on YouTube.

Their 2018 single 'Ddu-Du Ddu-Du' is the highest-charting K-Pop single in the US Billboard charts, and is a bit more sexy and vicious. New single, ‘Kill This Love’, continues a very similar vibe: lots of horns, easier to grind to than throw shapes to.

It’s interesting to hear how the most successful parts of western pop music have been absorbed and fused with East Asia’s own highly successful, high octane pop industry: their songs always feature rap, but their choruses are often sounds rather than words (‘ddu-du ddu-du’, for example, is effectively onamatopeia for a machine gun bullet round) so anyone can sing along.

When it comes to albums, Blackpink have so far released two EPs: Square Up in 2018, and Kill This Love in 2019. In Japan they released an EP Blackpink and a studio album Blackpink in your area. A lot of songs overlap between these various releases, but your safest bet to get the whole is to listen to Blackpink in your area.

Live performances

As mentioned before, choreography is a huge part of what Blackpink do: K-Pop bands are known for their specific, tight group dance routines that are the same every time they perform the song that it goes along with, and the bands tend to release rehearsal footage on their YouTube channels so people can learn the dance too. It’s also rare to watch people cover the songs without the expectation being they also do the routine alongside. It’s hard to stress how popular these routines and the choreography videos are: within two days, the ‘Kill This Love’ choreo video had over 14m views.

Generally, the songs work to give each of the members a part that shows off their talents as rappers, singers and/or dancers. Though the band don’t have writing credits on their songs, they do have an input into their material, including making sure each of them gets the best part for them. Any performance will give you a good idea of what each brings to the table, though perhaps ‘BOOMBAYAH’ will do this most comprehensively: it was, after all, their first outing.

The videos

If you’ve never seen a K-Pop video, you’re in for a bloody treat. Whether it’s the crispness of SHINee’s ‘1 of 1’ (don’t watch if you don’t want to buy a suit after watching) or the stern, sassy dance video to CL’s ‘Hello Bitches’ (choreographed by Parris Goebel, who also did Justin Bieber’s ‘Sorry’ and Ciara’s ‘Level Up’) they are real production numbers.

Blackpink are no exception, though even in a few short years the vision of their videos has grown a lot: while the video for Boombayah serves you early 00s Rihanna, or even Britney and Madonna’s ‘Me Against The Music’, 'Kill This Love' is just a huge camp treat that sits somewhere between ‘Bad Romance’, ‘Bitch I’m Madonna’ and the Pussycat Dolls’ ‘Don’t Cha’. It also contains the classic turn-of-the-millennium image of a woman crying while driving a car, a trope I’m glad to see the return of.

Who should I listen to next if I love Blackpink?

Take the plunge into K-Pop! It's a vast and varied world, but there are lots of brilliant girlbands who will bring something new to the table for you. Spotify has a lot of phenomenally good playlists to delve into it, so just listen to a few songs and see what it is you like and work from there.

190412 GQ MAGAZINE

[lotuslandcomics]

Poppy & Z2 Comics Unite for New Blood-Soaked Graphic Novel, 'Poppy Presents: Tit Tat'

Poppy creates a new original subverted superhero epic of teen angst and vengeance with writer Ryan Cady and artist Norzine Lama

Z2 Comics is proud to announce Poppy Presents: Tit Tat, the third collaboration between the musical auteur and publisher. Whereas the two previous graphic novels starred the breakout metal/punk/pop pioneer as the lead antihero, this new outing features an original story and characters created by Poppy.

The graphic novel revolves around Lydia, a teenager with mysterious psionic powers. Her only tether to reality is her best friend—amateur rockstar Marigold Sykes, who's barely better at navigating bullies and boy trouble. But when local girls start disappearing, can Lydia and her freak talents offer new hope? Or will her growing rage burn all bridges, leaving tears and regret?

"Having been the main character in the first two volumes, I adored the chance to create my own horror opus with Ryan and Norzine. Tit Tat merges superpowers, suspense, and weird fiction into a bombshell graphic novel,” Poppy explains.

Due in Spring 2023, the graphic novel reunites Poppy with co-writer Ryan Cady (Batman: Urban Legends, Winter Guard) who collaborated with the musician on Poppy: Genesis 1 and Poppy’s Inferno, and Norzine Lama, who provided art on the latter sequel. Norzine also provides cover art.    

"Every time we put together one of these graphic novels, Poppy has some wild new ideas—and I love them. We really wanted to get bloody this time and escalate the horror factor. We've been taking inspiration from Junji Ito, Stephen King, and director Ana Lily Amirpour, diving into the brutality of being a teenage girl," co-writer Cady continues.  "It's not just about blood (though we certainly have that), but the nightmares that come from anger and being othered—the ways that you can twist that violence back on the world.”

Poppy has served as a surreal force of pop art and genre-melting music since debuting in 2014 as a streaming sensation. Throughout her musical career, Poppy’s music has stretched the boundaries of pop, electro, metal, punk, and industrial into a hypnotic melange that’s garnered millions of fans the world over. Poppy is the first and only woman to be nominated for a GRAMMY in a metal category, recognized for her song “BLOODMONEY” at the 2021 ceremony. Earlier this month, Poppy released the Stagger EP on Republic and Lava Records, featuring her adrenaline-doused punk single “FYB.”  

Z2 Comics and Poppy present Tit Tat in standard hardcover and deluxe hardcover editions, set to release in Spring 2023. The deluxe hardcover will come with three art prints from Alexandria Walsh and Andrea Yewon. Oversized platinum editions will come signed by Poppy and come with an elegant slipcase, art prints, a charm bracelet, and a personal letter written by Poppy.

Preorder now at https://z2comics.com/poppy3

[cultofpoppy-tm]

Watch "On Set with Poppy for MARVIN Issue 9" on YouTube

Poppy for MARVIN

[pjisskullourful]

i love that you love poppy and Kim petras along with må! Poppy and Kim are my fav solo artists!!

OMG kimberliana petrakovika my absolute beloved🥰 not to sound like one of those dbags but i have been there since the start, im talkin bunhead, era 1. & now OMG she& sam smith have just made fucking history!!!! unholy is number1 on the billboard top 100, something never accomplished by a trans or nb artist before& its so aweinspiring to see- holy fuck how will her world domination progress from here?

& poppy- wow. what an incredible artist& holy fuck she so consistently keeps us fed with newmusic! what do we think of the new ep? i think stagger is such a beautiful song& fyb is exactly my vibe. but damn, i disagree(more) is just the best record ever, i get so excited everytime i listen to it, i can listen to somany of those songs on a loop& not get bored

absolute favs. we love to see women winning. they are kinda my default go tos when i cant decide what i wanna listen to

[slavesofpop]

Poppy Lança Novo EP "Stagger". Enfurecido Mini-Album Punk Rock Sonre Traições E Manipulação Do Ex. 》Ouça Em Todas As Plataformas Digitais. #slavesofpop #Rock #punkrock #poppy https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj5W3fdOgoc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lunapaper]

In her latest video, Poppy goes from a scream to a stagger.  

Shifting even further from the vicious, screeching nu-metal of 2020’s I Disagree, the singer’s dance with a former lover quickly turns into a hypnotic, all-consuming battle between the two, twisting and contorting herself as she tries to break free of him. Soft and serene, the track definitely feels like a 90s indie pop deep cut. 

Nice to see Poppy hasn’t completely abandoned the goth look... (✿◠‿◠) 

Poppy’s Stagger EP is out now. Read the review for her 2021 album Flux here. 

- Bianca B.