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How SOPHIE Brought a Radical Shift To the Music Industry
How SOPHIE Brought a Radical Shift To the Music Industry
The visionary artist opened doors for experimentation and influenced some of the field’s biggest players.
The visionary artist opened doors for experimentation and influenced some of the field’s biggest players.
February 2, 2021
A topless SOPHIE, wearing nothing but sheer eyeshadow and a glossy cherry lipstick, twirls in front of chroma-key skies, rainbows and auroras flashing in the background while the red-headed artist sings – and sometimes whispers – the ethereal song “It’s Okay To Cry.” The 2017 single marked the end of a mystery that had been going on since the 2013 web hit “Bipp” about who was behind the project: here was the DJ, musician, and producer coming out to the world, with nothing to hide.
Numbers and Lucky Me, BIPP was, for many, the track that introduced them to Sophie.
The song is full of so many of the idiosyncratic brilliances that Sophie made their own; industrial bangs, liquid fizzing and popping, and pitched-up vocals, all built from the ground-up using their own sonic palate. BIPP is a thrilling three minute pop-manifesto - a genuinely abstract piece of electronic art that sounds otherworldly and alien, yet playful and optimistic.
Avant-garde electronic music at its most danceable, Sophie s promise I can make you feel better on BIPP is indeed a righteous statement of intent for everything that followed.
Sophie, Grammy-Nominated Scottish Musician, Dies After Fall in Greece
1 Feb 2021
LONDON (AP) Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital of Athens. She was 34.
In a statement, U.K. label Transgressive said the musician, whose full name was Sophie Xeon, died in the early hours of Saturday morning.
“Tragically, our beautiful Sophie passed away this morning after a terrible accident,” the statement said. “True to her spirituality she had climbed up to watch the full moon and accidentally slipped and fell.”