Did you wake up this morning and think to yourself, “wow my playlist is absolutely phenomenal, but it’s really missing a song that starts by making me think I forgot to leave a discord call”? If you did, please get help, but I by some bizarre means have something to fill your needs

move on! is a song with far more to offer than it’s intro tag, but I thought it would be amiss to not mention it considering the first time I listened to this song it made me nearly drop my phone (in my defense, it was very early and I just woke up). That aside though we have a lot more to talk about. Hyperpop has become a bit of a bad word in the greater pop culture sphere, because when people hear it they’re thinking of the loudest, most abrasive fringes of the genre and not this. Boiled to its basics move on! is a clean concoction of crunchy synth chords, trap drums, and exceedingly clean vocals. With a run time of only 2:11 it’s very to the point, throwing us directly into a verse and chorus combo talking us through the mental spiral of being stuck while trying to move on. Despite being fairly common subject matter, there’s something about the way this song talks and the way it lays those words into rhythmic melodies that makes it feel distinctly more modern than all that came before it. It’s heartbreak for the internet age, plastered across enveloping synth chords and of all things a guiro worked into the percussion. Through all this the song seamlessly evokes synthetic memories of late nights in rooms lit by LED strips, feeling like a dumbass (not my words) over every little choice you made leading up to this moment of romantic mourning.

If you’ll allow me to draw a potentially insane comparison, I actually feel that move on! comes from a lineage of post-hyperpop that feels comparable to the recession pop of 15 years ago. While listening to it I can very much hear the influences of the last 5 years torrent of niche internet genres, but the actual end product feels like a modern take on the synth driven pop masterpieces of Rhianna and Lady Gaga that rules the airwaves circa 2008. Obviously that’s high praise and potentially a controversial thing to say but who am I if not someone who’s built their entire writing career on saying insane shit about music.

As a music journalist it’s my impulse to draw both abstract and direct comparisons while listening to music, and while listening to this song my initial thought that it really felt like a thematically inverse counterpart to Batya Belle’s Addiction, which is a phenomenal track in its own right deserving of its own article. Unfortunately for me though, writing that is like me comparing the merits of optical compressors and tube compressors, that being that it’s such a niche reference that maybe 2 of you will understand what I’m saying. That said I include it for the soul purpose of giving you a secret 2 for 1 today in terms of great small artist tracks you haven’t heard of yet. You can thank me later.

To close out this article I want to do something similar to what I did on my article for gottsy’s rot, because Spotify’s playlist algorithm has picked this song up and caused it to gain exponentially more streams than any other pnkdrco release, which while additional attention always rules, it always feels unfair how little those streams carry over. pnkdrco has a small catalog of really quality tracks that are currently being absolutely slept on so I really urge you to go check out black tears (secret 3 for 1 today*), which is my favourite of her other 3 releases. It’s another great trap-pop track that definitely deserves more eyes on it.