by Jack Gillespie The story of the character Poppy is one critical of the fake, manipulative, toxic culture of celebrity. For years, the character of Poppy was built up as a robotic, detached shell of a human-like being whose attempts to relate to the common person as a fellow normal human exposed exactly what is at the core of the character. If you remove all of the insane, complex lore that built up as the unsettling atmosphere of an average video from the pop star/Youtuber/method actress grew larger and larger, the same message came through; the celebrities and pop culture figures we look up too as inspiration are all fake. So how the story of Poppy the person, AKA Moriah Pereira, unfolded turned out to be a sickeningly poignant case of irony. The first domino fell when Mars Argo, a former collaborator with and girlfriend of Titanic Sinclair, the creative director behind a lot of the Poppy project, came out with a lawsuit that accused Sinclair of copying her identity and artistry with Poppy, as well as accusations of physical and mental abuse. The evidence was damning, and it became more and more obvious that the history of Sinclair and Argo was one of manipulation and artistic control on Sinclair’s part. So when Poppy announced her split from Sinclair as collaborators and shared similar stories to Argo’s of Sinclair's manipulation just weeks before the release of ‘I Disagree,’ the future of what the project that is Poppy would be had never been more simultaneously clear and mysterious since the lawsuit. Now that Poppy had separated from someone who had a huge role in her success, what next? She ended her statement with this: “I am happier than I have ever been and I am excited to move forward.”
Poppy sounds free for the first time ever
Poppy’s metal side has never sounded more brutal or natural
I Disagree is aesthetically cohesive, yet sonically versatile
I Disagree I Disagree Top Tracks: Recommended if you like:Pitchfork
