In its original form, Synth-pop looked toward the future. Musicians making a guess at what the 21st Century would sound like. But in the 2010s, music at large just wanted to recycle what had happened 40 years ago. In bringing a forward thinking approach to dance-pop, UK Producer SOPHIE was different. Unwilling to follow the constraints of old and obsessed with the purest of pop, SOPHIE’s bouncing metallic second single laid the groundwork for Bubblegum Bass, Hyperpop and some of the most inventive chart-pop production in recent memory. But was the world ready for the future of pop music? This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Bipp.”