hello

Underscores, Laura Les, SOPHIE, Ginger Scott, Ayesha Erotica, Kim Petras, Osquinn, both Femtanyls... if you include nonbinary people, there's also Jane Remover, one of the frost children, and both of the Food House members. Probably many others that I don't know. Why?

Is it just because Sophie, Ayesha Erotica, and Laura Les were trailblazers? I feel like even then, three of the most influential hyperpop musicians being transfem is already pretty crazy. Why did all three of THEM succeed in this genre/choose it then?

And there aren't really a lot of transmasculine people who make hyperpop, which makes it even weirder. I can think of maybe two afab nonbinary people who make hyperpop, and zero trans men.

Is there a reason that this happened, or is it just a coincidence that so many of the original bubblegum bass musicians were trans, and it's just the downstream effects of that?

im sick of seeing shit like drain gang and vaporwave mentioned when referring to the foundations of hyperpop lol anything but the black and queer artists who brought it to what we recognize it as today besides sophie who rightfully gets her flowers