ElyOtto is taking the internet by storm with his breakout single SugarCrash! We catch up with the hyperpop star to see what he has planned next.
“Are you kidding me? I can’t even listen to SugarCrash! anymore,” Elliot laughs down the phone. 17-year-old Elliot Platt aka ElyOtto is on the way to school and has just enough time to cram in an interview before class. The online hitmaker, best known for his maximalist hyperpop sound, admits things have been “pretty average” the last few weeks. Well, as “normal” life can be for a teen raking up hundreds of millions of streams online. “I still go to school. Homework is the number one priority,” he says. “I adjusted quite well and I love the attention, but I do know it can be a little much tricky sometimes.”
Internet fame crashed into Elliot’s life overnight, but it wasn’t on the artist’s agenda. “I was expecting to get like 100 streams at most,” he tells GAY TIMES. The Canadian artist developed a knack for creating experimental semi-fleshed out tunes slathered in autotune and synths and, sure enough, the sickly sweet Sugarcrash was its own mini-project. “I posted a little video on my TikTok to show some of my mutual’s like ‘Hey guys, please maybe stream this’ and the likes and the comments just kept coming in. I was totally freaking out,” Elliot recalls. The song, an intensely addictive 120-second loop of pitched vocals and hyperactive sound effects, became an instant hit on TikTok and its success quickly spilled over onto Spotify and social media. A neurotic single, SugarCrash! instantly recognisable for its overexaggerated, crunching tones and dark lyrics: ‘I’m on a sugar crash / I ain’t got no fuckin’ cash / Maybe I should take a bath / Cut my fuckin’ brain in half.’
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