Biography
Nashville native That Poppy, who also performs simply as Poppy, first surfaced on YouTube in 2014 through a silent clip of herself consuming cotton candy. The footage left audiences puzzled, yet it marked only the beginning of her distinctive approach to clever millennial performance. With wide eyes, platinum-blonde hair, and an array of charming vintage clothing, she quickly built a sizable social-media audience eager for each successive upload, whose themes grew increasingly strange and outlandish. Her meticulously crafted innocent image, rising influence as a fashion reference point, and playfully ironic videos—such as extended readings from the Bible, ten-minute repetitions of her own name, or the inflation of a plastic rabbit—merged satire, subversion, and outright eccentricity in the manner of surreal contemporary pop art. Music releases began in early 2015 with a Lana Del Rey-styled take on Mac DeMarco’s “My Kind of Woman,” followed months later by her debut official single, “Everybody Wants to Be Poppy.” After signing with Island Records, she issued the next single “Lowlife,” a reggae-inflected track later remixed with Travis Mills, which opened her first EP, Bubblebath. The four-track collection of infectious dance-pop appeared in February 2016, revealing her versatility and taste while drawing parallels to Grimes, Icona Pop, Melanie Martinez, and Charli XCX. That October she delivered the ambient album Music to Sleep To, created with Titanic Sinclair and polysomnographists from the Washington University School of Medicine to encourage restful sleep and positive dreaming. A year afterward came her first proper full-length, Poppy.Computer.
Singles
