BIODATA
NEWS
POPPY'S LITTLE SECRET
ROAD TOUR
GALERRY


One thing we do know is that behind the scenes there is – a man. All of That Poppy's videos are directed by Titanic Sinclair (also an alias), whose own a Youtube channel is filled with videos extremely similar to Poppy's – like, him alone in a room eating crisp or giving advice on How To Be Happy. His bio reads, "Hi, I'm Titanic Sinclair". Before his foray into Weird YouTube, Titanic Sinclair was one half of a music duo called Mars Argo – Mars Argo being the alias of the woman he was performing with. For the most part the songs are structured like commercial indie-pop in the vain of “She & Him”, with Argo parodying the genre's fondness for incredibly coy frontpeople and Sinclair taking a background seat to the performance, rarely appearing on screen in any of their videos. In an interview in 2014, Sinclair described the project as "a form of internet theatre that's meant to be satirical and complex". Now, their YouTube channel is pretty much empty. Shortly after the duo parted ways, Poppy showed up.




 So basically this is Titanic Sinclair guys.

So, all in all, Poppy is the pastel colour trend and the deep web, she is confessional writing and she is post-modernism, she comes off as both extremely intimate and completely removed – she is "Samantha" from Spike Jonze with added visuals. The appeal rests on something that's hard to put your finger on; something weird and abstract and evocative of the way we now balance our lives and personalities online and off. She may not be a household name yet, but at the moment it's just fascinating to watch people become fascinated with a girl about whom we have hardly any concrete facts, doing things that can't be rationally explained, and presenting us with the kind of questions you would type into Yahoo Answers after blazing for five hours. Whether that fascination can transform itself into a legitimate pop career remains to be seen, but as Poppy said herself: "People, especially nowadays, are so obsessed with knowing everything. They'll have to invest their time in finding it." So far that's exactly what everyone who comes across her feels compelled to do, but the really interesting part will be what happens when we get answers.