SOPHIE’s music helped numerous individuals together with her distinctive, iconic tracks. (SOPHIE)
Google has paid tribute to the late trans artist SOPHIE, whose actual identify was Sophie Xeon, via a Google Doodle icon
The trailblazing hyperpop artist is featured on Google’s dwelling web page, changing the search engine’s emblem to mark what would have been her thirty eighth birthday.
Clicking on the Google Doodle widget opens a YouTube Shorts animation devoted to Xeon with a remix of Immaterial from her flagship album Oil of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides.
The singer-songwriter died on 30 January 2021 after falling from the roof of a three-storey constructing in Greece while attempting to take an image of the evening sky.
Upon her demise, artists and figureheads paid tribute to the musical pioneer and the “icon of liberation”, honouring her for her “distilled velocity, noise, melody and readability.”
Her legacy in popularising the chaotically maximalist style “hyperpop” alongside artists like Charli XCX whereas working within the PC Music label cemented her as a pop music behemoth.
Songs similar to “Faceshopping” grew to become famend for the fascinating mixture of percussive clangs combined with Xeon’s soulful, elegant voice, while concurrently addressing the commercialisation of magnificence.
Within the video’s description, Google wrote that the video celebrates SOPHIE’s “acclaimed experimental pop and digital music.”
Feedback replying to the video shared their very own private reference to Xeon’s music, with one saying they “by no means anticipated a Google Doodle to convey tears to my eyes.”
“The power for people to empathize with individuals they haven’t even met is type of stunning to me,” one other stated.
SOPHIE’s posthumous remaining album is coming later this yr
A posthumous album by Sophie Xeon was introduced earlier this yr and is about to be launched on 27 September, her label Transgressive Data revealed in June.
A teaser hit from the upcoming album, Purpose Why – which options Kim Betras and BC Kingdom – was launched on Spotify following the announcement.
Since then, a number of different tracks from the album, together with Berlin Nightmare, One Extra Time, and exxhilarate have been launched.
Talking concerning the upcoming album, a spokesperson for SOPHIE’s household wrote that they’d labored to convey the challenge “to fruition” and contacted a number of of her “expensive buddies” to assist.
“Sophie didn’t usually converse publicly of her personal life, preferring to place all the things she wished to articulate in her music. It feels solely proper to share with the world the music she hoped to launch, within the perception that we will all join together with her on this, the shape she cherished most,” the assertion continued.
“Sophie gave all of herself to her music. It’s right here that she will be able to at all times be discovered.”
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