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Poppy
Marathon Music Works — Nashville, TN
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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 + Nashville

Poppy rolled through Brooklyn Bowl Nashville on April 9, 2025, delivering a lean 16-song set that leaned heavy into her more confrontational material. She opened with the defiant punch of "have you had enough?" and "BLOODMONEY," then pivoted to some deeper cuts like "the cost of giving up" and "Scary Mask" that showed off the theatrical darkness she's been chasing since her earlier work. The set built toward her anthemic "I Disagree" and closed out with "new way out," which felt like a statement rather than just a final song. Nashville's seen Poppy a few times over the years, but this show felt like watching someone fully committed to the weirder, heavier version of herself—no apologies, just the music.

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Live Music in Nashville

Nashville's music DNA runs country and Americana deep, but the city's underground electronic and alternative scenes have quietly grown over the last decade. Venues like Brooklyn Bowl have become crucial for artists working outside the mainstream country lane—it's where pop artists with experimental edges can actually find an audience that gets what they're doing. Poppy's electro-industrial pop sensibility fits into that broader Nashville conversation about artists refusing easy categorization.

Nashville road trip to see Poppy?

Stay in East Nashville, where the old theaters and independent venues give the area real character without the Broadway chaos. Dinner at Attaboy or The Stillery—places with actual craft to their food. Spend a day exploring The Ryman Auditorium if you haven't; it's impossible to ignore the gravity of that room. Walk through the honky-tonks on Broadway if you want context for what Shepherd's blues means in this particular music town. The Parthenon is worth an hour if you need something completely different from the music scene.

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