Jia Tolentino reviews a posthumous self-titled album by Sophie, an artist known for tracks like “Bipp,” “Hey QT,” and “It’s Okay to Cry”; who worked with Madonna and Charli XCX; and who fell to her death at the age of thirty-four.
At the time, not much was known about Sophie. She was associated with the collective PC Music, which specialized in the aggressively, gleefully synthetic. With the producer A. G. Cook, Sophie put out a catchy PC Music single called “Hey QT,” a promotional jingle for a fake energy drink, QT, which, in 2015, was distributed to concert attendees in a stunt at SXSW.
A few years before, Sophie had been asked about Richard Dawkins’s idea that genes are just digital information—that, thus, life itself was digital. “Yeah QT,” she’d replied. She had translated her life and her questions into these new sounds, evincing some personal ethic of the transhuman and the trans human, in which states of flux could be captured in digital permanence, in which alteration was how you approached the divine.
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