History Music / Sophie

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The nascent "bubblegum bass" label is a good start in describing her style, but something more accurate would likely be an experimental, blatantly artificial mixture of bubblegum pop, trap music, and industrial hip-hop.

** There's also a case with the singers, where most of the vocalists still have yet to be identified. Only ones known for certain are Nabihah Iqbal for "LEMONADE" , ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFOTY GFOTY]]) for "HARD" , ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecile_Believe Cecile Believe]]) for most of ''Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides'', and Sophie herself for "It's Okay to Cry".

** Within the context of ''Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides'', an album full of distorted bangers, {{Surprisingly Gentle Song}}s, or surreal [[DroneOfDread droning soundscapes]], the penultimate track "Immaterial" is a perfectly straightforward and fun dance pop song.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "It's Okay to Cry" is an unequivocally sincere pop ballad, [[StepUpToTheMic complete with providing her own vocals]] and appearing in the song's music video, with only hints of her signature sound.

** There's also a case with the singers, where most of the vocalists still have yet to be identified. Only ones known for certain are "LEMONADE" (Nabihah Iqbal), "HARD" ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFOTY GFOTY]]), "Ponyboy" and "Faceshopping"([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecile_Believe Cecile Believe]]), and "It's Okay to Cry" (Sophie herself).

* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Ponyboy" is a raunchy, almost [[FanDisservice ugly-sounding]] and intense example whose lyrics seem to be from the POV of the submissive in a crazy [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} animal roleplay scenario]].

** In a meta example, the first ''Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides'' single was "It's Okay to Cry", by far Sophie's most sincere, gentle track to date. The second single released not long after was "Ponyboy", which is among one of her most harsh and experimental.

** The finale of ''Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides'' is a double track labeled in the tracklist as "Whole New World:Pretend World", starting off as an aggressive, vocal banger that halfway through dissolves into a cacophonous, but ethereal soundscape.

* StepUpToTheMic: After years of releasing singles with female vocalists, most of which are still unidentified, Sophie makes her own vocal debut on the track "It's Okay to Cry".

* GenreRoulette: Looking past her signature sound, her individual songs vary in base genre influence. "BIPP" and "LEMONADE", at least structurally, are rather straightforward pop tunes, "MSMSMSM" takes inspiration from TrapMusic complete with rattling hi-hats, "HARD" and "Ponyboy" are aggressive, experimental bangers, "JUST LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE" and "It's Okay to Cry" are gentle pop ballads, etc.

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* OnlyOneName: As an artist, she's just named "Sophie". Prior to "It's Okay to Cry", her real name was Samuel Long, having used "Sophie" as a moniker because "[[https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9237-sophie/ It tastes good and it's like moisturizer,]]" but after coming out in 2017, it's also now her preferred first name.

* SiameseTwinSongs: A bit of an odd example with her first single, "NOTHING MORE TO SAY / EEEHHH". [[https://soundcloud.com/annie-mac-presents/free-music-monday-sophie The most "official" release for streaming]] is actually a mashup of several mixes of the namesake songs [[EitherOrTitle (hence the title)]], but on the digital singles, they're split individually; "EEEHHH" is its own track, and there's also a "vox" and "dub" of "NOTHING MORE TO SAY".

Sophie released several singles throughout 2013 to 2015, which were all then released in a compilation in 2015, titled ''Product''. Near the end of 2017, she emerged from secrecy and premiered her newest single "It's Okay to Cry". Later in the month, she made her debut live performance, released her next single, "Ponyboy", and announced her first major studio album ''Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides'' to be released some time in spring 2018.

Sophie released several singles throughout 2013 to 2015, which were all then released in a compilation in 2015, titled ''Product''. Near the end of 2017, she emerged from secrecy and premiered her newest single "It's Okay to Cry". Later in the month, she made her debut live performance, released her next single, "Ponyboy", and announced her first major studio album (currently untitled) to be released some time in spring 2018.

** In a meta example, the first ''Whole New World'' single was "It's Okay to Cry", by far Sophie's most sincere, gentle track to date. The second single released not long after was "Ponyboy", which is among one of her most harsh and experimental.

Sophie released several singles throughout 2013 to 2015, which were all then released in a compilation in 2015, titled ''Product''. Near the end of 2017, she emerged from secrecy and premiered her newest single "It's Okay to Cry". Later in the month, she made her debut live performance, released her next single, "Ponyboy", and announced her first major studio album, ''Whole New World'', to be released some time in 2018.

** There's also a case with the singers, where most of the vocalists still have yet to be identified. Only ones known for certain are "LEMONADE" (Nabihah Iqbal), "HARD" ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFOTY GFOTY]]), "Ponyboy" ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecile_Believe Cecile Believe]]), and "It's Okay to Cry" (Sophie herself).

Sophie Long, most commonly known as just ''Sophie'' (stylized ''SOPHIE'') is an enigmatic, idiosyncratic Los Angeles-based [[ElectronicMusic electronic]] producer, known for being one of the TropeMakers of the "bubblegum bass" subgenre. Gaining critical attention and popularity since 2013-2014 with singles like "BIPP" and "LEMONADE", Sophie's music is heavily inspired by pop music, but wildly exaggerated to UncannyValley-like levels, with cutesy, heavily-synthesized and "plastic"-sounding instrumentals, pitched-up vocals with repetitive lyrics, and often frenzied, chaotic, but detailed beats. The result is music that's equal parts surreal, blatantly artificial, parodic, and ridiculously catchy.

** "L.O.V.E." is largely comprised of a harsh and intense DroneOfDread with constant, ominous {{Title Drop}}s, but there are sections where it abruptly interrupts itself with cute, sparkly keyboard riffs before it resumes.

** "Ponyboy" goes the other route, whose beat consists of highly-distorted bass and vocals alongside metallic screeches.

* SiameseTwinSongs: Sophie's first officially listed single, "NOTHING MORE TO SAY / EEEHHH" is comprised of what were originally two different mixes, [[EitherOrTitle hence the title]], then mashed together in a single track.

* AnythingCanBeMusic: A strange, rare non-comedic example. Sophie crafts individual sounds from scratch with simple waveforms as a base, which end up manipulated to sound similar to latex, balloons, bubbles, metal, plastic, and elastic. These are in turn incorporated rather effectively in her songs, such as with the synthetic, "bubbly" sounds making up much of "LEMONADE". [[https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9237-sophie/ Sophie compares this creation process to molecular gastronomy.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Much of her earlier pre-"BIPP" music, including "NOTHING MORE TO SAY / EEEHHH", is a lot more straightforward, taking more of a general [[HouseMusic house-inspired sound]], with vocals left un-pitched. It wasn't until "BIPP" where Sophie decided to crank the artificiality UpToEleven and became more experimental where she gained her signature sound.

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* AnythingCanBeMusic: A strange, rare non-comedic example. Sophie crafts individual sounds from scratch with simple waveforms as a base, which end up manipulated to sound similar to latex, balloons, bubbles, metal, plastic, and elastic. These are in turn incorporated rather effectively in her songs, such as with the synthetic, "bubbly" sounds making up much of "LEMONADE".

* GenreRoulette: Looking past her signature sound, her individual songs vary in base genre influence. "BIPP" and "LEMONADE", at least structurally, are rather straightforward pop tunes, "MSMSMSM" takes inspiration from trap music complete with rattling hi-hats, "HARD" and "Ponyboy" are aggressive, experimental bangers, "JUST LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE" and "It's Okay to Cry" are gentle pop ballads, etc.

* RhymingWithItself: The ''only'' rhymes "HARD" are with the word [[TitleDrop "hard"]] and itself.

* GenreRoulette: Looking past her signature sound, her individual songs vary in base genre influence. "BIPP" and "LEMONADE", at least structurally, are rather straightforward pop tunes, "MSMSMSM" takes inspiration from trap music complete with rattling hi-hats, "HARD" and "Ponyboy" are aggressive, experimental bangers, "Just Like We Never Said Goodbye" and "It's Okay to Cry" are gentle pop ballads, etc.

-->''Patent boot, yank so hard''\\
''Silicon, squeeze so hard''\\

''Do I make you proud? I try so hard''

* TheInvisibleBand: Initially, [[ReclusiveArtist Sophie's imagery was all there was to know about her]], and she often misled her audience when she actually appeared, from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_CbN2p3NFc using a voice changer during an audio interview]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxM0bxsJEuI hiring a drag performer to mime her live DJ set without telling anyone]]. However, this seems to have gone away since 2017, where she's much more keen to performing live herself and appearing front and center in her videos.

->''[[TheStinger Shake, shake shake it up and make it fiiiiiiizz!]]''

* VirtualCelebrity: In 2014, Sophie collaborated with Hayden Dunham and A.G. Cook to produce "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QT_(musician) QT]]", a performance art project of a semi-satirical popstar played by Dunham who "promotes and is the living embodiment of the semi-fictitious [=DrinkQT=] energy drink." She's only released one single, "Hey QT", produced by Sophie and Cook, but she's continued making live appearances for affiliated acts including Sophie and Music/CharliXCX to lipsync her song.

Sophie Long, most commonly known as just ''Sophie'' (stylized ''SOPHIE'') is an enigmatic, idiosyncratic Los Angeles-based [[ElectronicMusic electronic]] producer, known for being one of the TropeMakers of the nascent "bubblegum bass" subgenre. Gaining critical attention and popularity since 2013-2014 with singles like "BIPP" and "LEMONADE", Sophie's music is heavily inspired by pop music, but wildly exaggerated to UncannyValley-like levels, with cutesy, heavily-synthesized and "plastic"-sounding instrumentals, pitched-up vocals with repetitive lyrics, and often frenzied, chaotic, but detailed beats. The result is music that's equal parts surreal, blatantly artificial, parodic, and ridiculously catchy.

* GenreRoulette: Looking past her signature sound, her individual songs vary in base genre influence. "BIPP" and "LEMONADE", at least structurally, are rather straightforward pop tunes, "MSMSMSM" takes inspiration from trap music complete with rattling hi-hats, "HARD" and "Ponyboy" are aggressive, experimental bangers, "Just Like We Never Said Goodbye" and "It's Okay to Cry" are sincere ballads, etc.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "It's Okay to Cry" is an unequivocally sincere pop ballad, [[StepUpToTheMic complete with providing her own vocals]] and appearing in the song's music video, with only hints of her signature sound.