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SOPHIE’s Vision of the Future
A wake for the forward-thinking pop producer, whose self-titled posthumous album is out now.
Naming “BIPP” one of the best songs of the 2010s, Pitchfork called it “a day-glo warning shot that indicated just how wonderfully weird pop was going to get in the years that followed.” SOPHIE pushed that process along by collaborating with everyone from Madonna to Vince Staples to Arca. Albums such as Orbital’s In Sides and Moby’s Everything Is Wrong were absolute staples in our house and always on heavy rotation in our mum’s car, much to the frustration of our older and younger sisters, whose Shania Twain and Disney CDs rarely got a look in. Suddenly, there’s this work that addresses the question of being seen and of seeing yourself as a trans person.— Sasha GeffenLogistically this made things complicated, to say the least, as she would insist on having her computers with her in the dressing room, making beats and honing new sounds for the show, until about 30 seconds before she was due on stage!
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