Back in July, Charli XCX tweeted the question: “what is hyperpop?” […] A few minutes after her glib inquiry about the burgeoning pop descriptor, she rejected the label entirely, tweeting: “I do not identify with music genres.” That brief exchange is as good a definition as any for the sound and ethos of hyperpop: a genre tag for distinctly genre-less music.

There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.

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He put his foot on a concealed button under his desk and rang an alarm bell. He always had two strongarm men lolling around in an office down the passage.