Poppy

Poppy, born Moriah Rose Pereira on January 1, 1995, first drew widespread notice through performance-art videos posted to YouTube beginning in 2014. Working under the name That Poppy during this period, she played an uncanny, android-like persona whose deliberately artificial delivery satirized internet culture and modern society. The videos became central to her early public image, alongside a collaboration with Titanic Sinclair that ended in 2019 after she accused him of emotional abuse. In 2024, she launched the web series Improbably Poppy.

Raised in Boston, Poppy has worked as a singer, songwriter, musician and YouTuber, with a catalogue that has moved across pop, electronic music, art pop, industrial sounds and metal. Her first two albums leaned largely toward pop and sold moderately. A sharper turn arrived with her third album, I Disagree (2020), which combined heavy metal and industrial rock and became her first release to enter the Billboard 200. The album's single “Bloodmoney” received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Metal Performance, making her the first solo female artist nominated in that category.

Her subsequent releases have continued to shift in sound, including work in alternative metal, nu metal, metalcore, ambient music and electropop. After an experimental period, her sixth album, Negative Spaces (2024), brought renewed critical attention. That same year, she appeared on Bad Omens’ “V.A.N” and Knocked Loose’s “Suffocate.” “Suffocate” earned her a second Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance.

In 2026, Poppy released her seventh album, Empty Hands, which became her second entry on the Billboard 200. Across her music and visual work, she has repeatedly altered the presentation surrounding her songs, from the pop-focused material of her early albums to the heavier records that brought her to the Billboard chart and Grammy recognition.