Nightmare Fuel / Poppy

Oh no indeed.

General

• Poppy's way of speaking is... approximately how a normal person would speak, but not quite. And half the time, she doesn't look into the camera, but somewhere far away off-screen. As discussed by Titanic, the speech and sound is dubbed over / added in, and sometimes ever so slightly out of sync. This creates an unsettling/fake feel. Titanic Sinclair also does this on his YouTube channel.
• This trope even bleeds into the music itself, namely her straight pop tracks after 3:36 (Music to Sleep To). While it still remains as catchy and bright pop, some compositions can get creepily dissonant at times, and her lyrics can occasionally tread into weird territory (leaning on obsessions to technology, strange double entendres or allusions to something more sinister), vague enough to be easily missed, but unnerving once you notice it.
• Charlotte. Charlotte is an expressionless mannequin who speaks with a computerized voice. Initially starting as an interviewer for Poppy, Charlotte gradually becomes more envious of Poppy's success so much so, she resorts to using drugs. She also has a son who she tends to neglect.
• "Get Away From Me" is another video of something menacing her, and Poppy bemoaning she just wanted to make a video. Comments noted it wasn't directed by Titanic.

Music

• "Lowlife" has several disturbing images within it. The most disturbing is where Poppy is sitting down at a dinner table having a conversation with Satan. The "meal" consists of human skulls and other bones.
• The video to "X", when it's not being serene and bubbly, is filled to the brim with horror and Death Metal-inspired imagery that skips right past Poppy's generally subdued creepiness into legitimately frightening territory. Standout images include Poppy being drenched in blood a la Carrie, as well as her twitching around with Black Eyes of Evil with chants of "Poetry, poetry, poetry, ecstasy, ecstasy, ecstasy..."
• There's the music video and lyrics to "Time Is Up", in which Poppy essentially gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to mankind's folly in ruining Earth with pollution and war, stating in no uncertain terms we'll soon be extinct due our own stupidity but Poppy (whatever she is) will still be here when we're gone, so she's not concerned. Of particular attention is her most blunt verse:
  Your life is meaningless, you're just like cockroaches
  Extermination's your only hope
  Human history, pollution, and overcrowded cities
  That's your legacy
  But don't look so depressed
  You'll soon be nothingness
  Oh my God, you don't even know
  I don't need air to breathe when you kill the bees
  And every river bed is dry as a bone
  Oh, I will still survive when the plants have died
  And the atmosphere is just a big hole
• "Voicemail" has Poppy alternating between Prophet Eyes and Black Eyes of Evil, all while chanting odd and vaguely disturbing things;
  There's blood on my necklace
  And blood on my clothes
  I called up the police
  Their voicemail was full
• "Meat" from Choke is one of Poppy's most outright morbid songs, detailing the state of humanity after it's been reduced to a farmed food source like cattle. The visceral Sickening Slaughterhouse imagery throughout it is especially disturbing because much of the details of factory-farming animals is real.
  Plug me into the feeding machine
  Ten in a pen pressed against me
  Cut out my tongue so that I can't scream
  There's meat, there's meat on me
  Antibiotics keep me alive
  Now that everyone I love has died
  Hang me up and strip me clean
  There's meat, there's meat on me
• "So Mean" from Flux has her go back to her cutesy Poppy voice for a moment, asking "how did I get here" followed by a wrenching scream.

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