By Pyra / 8 November 2026
DYSTOPIAN POP
What dystopian pop means in my work.
Dystopian pop is the language I use for the meeting point between electronic production, pop songwriting, confrontation, visual world-building and social commentary. It lets beauty, tension, resistance and release exist inside the same record.
A way of seeing, as well as sounding
I am a Thai artist from Bangkok. The world around me enters the music through the pressures people live with, the identities they negotiate and the futures they are told to accept. The pop part matters because the song still has to connect. The dystopian part gives me room to question what sits underneath it.
This is a definition of my own practice. It is not a fixed set of rules for every artist who uses the term.
Electronic roots, human stakes
Before my debut EP Stray in 2016, I studied electronic music production in Bangkok and spent years DJing. Electronic music remains part of the foundation: rhythm, physical pressure and the feeling of being inside a shared space. Pop songwriting gives those sounds an emotional centre.
The sound and visuals work together. Abrasion can sit beside a hook; a confrontational idea can still invite movement. Thai rhythm and spirit remain part of how I carry that work beyond Bangkok.
Where to start listening
- “dystopia” and “bangkok” (2020): entry points into the electronic world of this period.
- FKN BAD (2021): two EPs bringing the songs and their visual worlds together, including “yellow fever”, featuring Ramengvrl and Yayoi Daimon.
- PYRADISE (2024): the next body of work in this catalogue.
- “Naughty Ai” with HARU NEMURI (2025): a later collaboration in the continuing story.
The official music catalogue has release dates, collaborators and listening links.
A category should leave room to move
Over time, my work became known as dystopian pop. That language gave me space to combine electronic production, confrontation, visual world-building and social commentary. It still describes an important part of me. But an artist can become trapped inside even a category she invented for herself.
Returning to dance music brings the story back to the body and the room. The ideas can move, and I can move with them. Read the full essay on returning to dance music.
Beyond the record
The questions do not stop when a song ends. Change Music Asia connects my work as an artist to funding, development and visibility for artists using music to create social impact.