Mikey Joyce

For all of the playfulness and anarchy that characterize hyperpop music, we hardly ever talk about how its associated visual culture contributes to its allure. For hundreds of thousands of twenty-somethings barred from clubs this spring, Charli XCX’s How I’m Feeling Now, dropped on May 15, offered a reprieve. Its unabashed expressionism on songs like “pink diamond” and “anthems” injected life into the dull day-to-day of quarantine.