#i feel like my whole thing about the freezing of desire via representation is me kind of knowing what D&G are on about

[xirae]

The latest Thy Slaughter single Lost Everything feels like a glimpse at the workings of hyperpop music. Hyperpop is a genre that deconstructs pop, takes it's most synthetically sweet sounds, generic and construed lyrics, then makes it all so damn obvious. With such an obvious facade, what is it hiding under the surface? Possibly a desire that can't be represented lest it be frozen, reduced, and turned lifeless and stunted . On the flip side, obtaining the spelled-out, cultural constructed objects of desire is ultimately a failure because it has gone through that process of reduction into lifelessness. Hence, Lost Everything gives us a sly wink in the chorus of its breakup ballad: you've got everything, you've lost everything

#i need to develop my thesis of hyperpop and pc music now that pc music is moving on #i feel like my whole thing about the freezing of desire via representation is me kind of knowing what D&G are on about #but not having actually read them yet #needs a bit more specificity imo but i like it as my general idea #my hypothesis #hyperpop #theory #personal theory