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Poppy
The Fillmore Detroit — Detroit, MI
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About Poppy

Poppy started as a YouTube oddity in 2014, posting weird thirty-second clips that somehow felt creepy and hypnotic. Her early music mixed bubblegum pop with unsettling production and imagery that made people uncomfortable on purpose. She's collaborated with producers like Grimes and Morgan Simpson, shifting between glossy pop-punk on records like Flux and heavier, more experimental sounds on Desire: I Want to Turn Into You. Her thing is refusing to stay in one lane. One moment she's doing infectious pop hooks, the next she's in a rabbit hole of industrial noise and conceptual weirdness. Live, she commands a room with an almost cult-like intensity, and her fanbase treats her output like a puzzle to decode. She's essentially proof that you don't need a clear genre to build something genuinely weird and genuinely hers.

Poppy's shows are tight and deliberately eerie. She moves with mechanical precision, the crowd hangs on every moment, and there's an unsettling focus to the whole thing that makes it feel less like entertainment and more like witnessing something you shouldn't.

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Poppy + Detroit

Poppy rolled into Saint Andrew's Hall on March 25, 2025 with the kind of setlist that rewards people who've been paying attention. She opened with the defiant punch of "have you had enough?" and spent the next hour threading through the harder edges of her catalog—"BLOODMONEY," "I Disagree," "Bite Your Teeth"—songs that show her willing to push into genuine darkness. The deep cuts landed hard: "V.A.N" and "the center's falling out" demonstrated that her catalog has plenty of room for the people who want something weirder than the singles. She closed things out with "new way out," which felt less like a victory lap and more like someone walking away from something that needed to end. Detroit's seen Poppy before, but this version felt more settled into who she actually is.

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Live Music in Detroit

Detroit doesn't do cute. The city built itself on music that had something to prove, and Poppy's angular electronic-rock hybrid fits that lineage better than most contemporary acts. There's a kinship here between her willingness to shapeshift and the city's history of artists refusing easy categorization. Saint Andrew's Hall has hosted plenty of artists doing interesting work in the margins, and Poppy slots right into that tradition—music that's deliberately uncomfortable, never chasing consensus.

Detroit road trip to see Poppy?

Stay in Corktown, where vintage buildings and independent shops give the neighborhood actual character. Dinner at Selden Standard for refined cooking that doesn't announce itself. Spend an afternoon at the Detroit Institute of Arts—the murals and permanent collection justify the trip alone, and the building itself is worth the walk. The city's music history lives in these spaces. Catch the show, then grab late drinks somewhere on Michigan Avenue. You'll understand why Detroit crowds expect rigor from their musicians.

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