SOPHIE

had a good fucking cry this morning. too young, too soon.

so, so tragic. RIP. so young and had so much more to do.

listening to one of my favorite singles of the last decade, which many might not know sophie was involved in https://cocktaildamoremusic.bandcamp.com/album/sfire-digital

I wasn't intimately familiar with her work, but "Faceshopping" (song/video) was one of the most provocative things I'd encountered in pop in a long time. Seems like an important artist, terribly young to go.

I knew BIPP from our own poll a few years ago, but that's really the extent of it. This put the loss in a greater context for me.

If you don’t know the music and need a comparison Sophie had a Dilla like impact on that scene which will be felt for decades

— Rashard Du Soul (@dances) January 30, 2021

Damn this is really sad

RIP, only knew her from a few things but I really dug all those things.

This is just the fucking worst. Far too soon.

massive loss. Rip

:( rip

I came across this spotify playlist entitled "every SOPHIE produced song on this damn site'

This is so sad. Pretty much my favourite producer of the 10s, and a genuinely exceptional performer.

The show at Heaven from just before the album (of which there are excerpts on Youtube) was thrilling. Not just the spectacle and fierce performance, but the atmosphere in the room was one of sheer joy. What SOPHIE represented for everyone there, in terms of owning their identity, made it such a celebratory night and the mixture of ecstatic pogoing and vogueing triggered by 'Immaterial' was something I'll always remember.

Outside of the playlist Fetchboy just linked, there's an incredible amount of unreleased and leaked material floating around. These are some of my favourites:

Ooh - this pre-dates or is of the same era as Bipp, you can hear the echoes throughout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKiX91tZv50

Psalms (with fka Twigs) - this was leaked this year though must date from earlier, it was nommed in this year's tracks poll but as it isn't on Spotify I guess most people missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sGu4yb_R_o

Banoffee - Count On You - not a leak or unreleased, but I don't think it's widely known that this is a SOPHIE co-production, just a really pretty song and the one I've been listening to most today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BeBn4mCnP4

Astonishing sounds and delicious melodies, what a bright streak in the heavens, what a beacon. I’m sad for her and sad for us that we missed what’s next, and what’s ten steps down the road. She made pop new for me again.

lovely posts

the first time i heard "bipp" was revelatory

pic.twitter.com/zqOPhluF7j

— frozen reeds (@frozenreeds) January 30, 2021

Gutted seeing the news this morning. She was just getting started... fuck

@nilerodgers

#RestInPower SOPHIE! You were one of the most innovative, dynamic, and warm persons I had the pleasure of working with at 2019 ⁦
@southbankcentre
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Oh! It’s THIS SOPHIE. :( I overheard some girls earlier in the supermarket talking about how an artist called Sophie died in an accident and I didn’t connect who they were talking about. This sucks.

she should've seen the day she would be talked about in all of the supermarkets.

appreciating the music shares and messages here today

We lost SOPHIE way too soon at just 34 years old. Thanks to Eavan McNeil for assembling this 68-song Spotify playlist of every track she produced. RIPP https://t.co/i8zN0Pi7ue pic.twitter.com/kfbr3WwhZi

— Zachary Whittenburg (@trailerpilot) January 30, 2021

Maybe it’s the mexican side of me, but if you want to smile remembering SOPHIE check out Vince Staples twitter account for some warm anecdotes of her.

ha, sweet

thread of some of SOPHIE’S unreleased gems 💄

— SOPHIE UPDATES (@MSMSMSMUPDATES) January 31, 2021

here's a bunch of unreleased tracks & rarities

I had never really understood her music-- just felt like it wasn't my thing. Yesterday I listened to a bunch of her songs, and felt profound grief that I'd somehow missed something before, and that I wouldn't be able to enjoy more in the future. Then, last night, I had a lucid dream where I was a helper to a neuroatypical adult who was trying to communicate with their friend, another neuroatypical adult, through a Plexiglas screen, and the both of them were crying because they couldn't communicate properly, then 'Its Okay to Cry' started playing in the dream and I woke up sobbing.

Something in the air. Horrible news.

Truly horrible news. She was in my dreams last night too.

Those Vince Staples anecdotes were a help. Thanks for the heads up.

still can’t believe this. Rest Peacefully Sophie. 💔 🙏🏿 pic.twitter.com/OsYGdCKgkz

— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 1, 2021

Some short thoughts.

Currently rolling through that Spotify playlist <3

Great thoughts Ned, and loved the quote you singled out, the desire "to make the brightest, most intense, engaging thing." It started me thinking who else was doing that and the most obvious answer (apart from AG Cook of course) was Yasutaka Nakata (Perfume, Capsule, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu etc.). Does anyone know if SOPHIE and Nakata interacted? I was thrilled when Autechre did the first ever SOPHIE remix.
Also apologies for my use of "her" to refer to the artist upthread, I learned from Philip Sherburne's brilliant p4k piece that SOPHIE disliked both gendered and nonbinary pronouns. https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/remembering-sophies-radical-futurism/

and had I not been such a lazy git, I would have found this almost first up
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/47/8e/e7/478ee7e50301e7aa827eb6293b597938.jpg

wow, that pic! i was living in Nagoya in 2010 and made to see Capsule play a live show in Osaka back then. so glad i did. i never imagined a SOPHIE - Capsule connection. and i wondered what the hell happened to Capsule... now i know.

thank u Ned for that writing. i'd never seen the video, it made me cry and that's ok :)))

/haxxZ ilx0rz serverz, replaces all lower-case renderings w/ {"SOPHIE"}, removes pronouns

Thank you.

All the subsequent/related posts are lovely to read.

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— Art (@_artsartsarts) February 2, 2021

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— Charli (@charli_xcx) February 2, 2021

this right here is the absolute shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXPSe57pOss

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/vince-staples-sophie-tribute-1122824/

Great piece with a ton of quotes from folks

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-sophies-music-inspired-a-generation-of-underground-artists/

still obsessing over this incredible livestream mix

lovely tribute from A G Cook today

http://agcook.com/msmsmsm/

Beautiful, thanks for linking

what a wonderful tribute.

Great read, ty

Yeah that was a beautiful piece of writing.

Very much so

;_;

Indeed thanks for sharing this. Heartfelt writing.