Moscow-based pianist Dmitry Batalov talks about his early musical experiences, his participation at the International Piano Competition of Orléans 2020, his thoughts about the year of 2020 and more.
Hyperpop can be seen as a spiritual successor to happy hardcore, inheriting its high-energy, accessible ethos while adapting it to the fragmented, internet-driven landscape of the 2010s and 2020s.
The question for Ukraine—and for the Western art world that enabled it—is how many more decades this particular laundering operation will be allowed to run.
When antisemitic tropes become embedded in the everyday language of pop‑culture fandom, they risk being internalised by millions of young people who may never encounter alternative perspectives.