Internet Pop
tagStarted 2014Peak 2018-2024Last big hit still active
Located in 2 routes
Pop made by and for the feed: bright, hooky, lo-fi-to-glossy songs born on SoundCloud, Bandcamp and Discord, fluent in meme cadence and irony. Bedroom-produced, vocally processed, genre-agnostic, it values relatability and shareability over polish, with a sincere, terminally-online emotional register under the digital sheen.
History
Emerging mid-2010s as PC Music and Soundcloud bedroom artists reframed pop as a native-internet object, it widened as streaming and TikTok rewarded intimacy over scale. Acts like Cavetown, mxmtoon and That Kid built audiences direct-to-fan, blurring hyperpop, bedroom pop and emo into a feed-shaped, post-genre pop sensibility through the early 2020s.
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Essential listening
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpop
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/21/hyperpop-the-online-pop-scene
- https://www.theface.com/music/hyperpop-pc-music-sophie-discord-that-kid-underscores-charli-xcx