Uffie
Uffie became the sneering, deadpan voice of mid-2000s Parisian electro after French producer DJ Feadz pulled the American-born teenager into the scene around Ed Banger Records. 'Pop the Glock' and her 2010 debut album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans fused rapped-sung vocals with distorted electro-house, helping define bloghouse-era electroclash. Her flat delivery and party-hedonist persona became a direct touchstone for a later generation of internet-pop provocateurs, Charli XCX included.
Peaches' sexually blunt, sneering electro-punk sass gave Uffie and the wider electroclash generation a template for irreverent, unfiltered lyricism over electronic beats.
listen forCompare the raw, deadpan filth of Peaches' 'Fuck the Pain Away' to Uffie's brasher 'Sex Dreams' — both wearing bratty sexual bravado as the whole point.
Uffie came up inside Paris's Ed Banger Records orbit, the French house/electro scene Daft Punk's global success helped make possible and whose filtered-disco sheen colored the label's sound.
listen forCompare the filtered disco sheen of Daft Punk's 'One More Time' to the buffed French-house polish under Uffie's 'ADD SUV.'
Chicks on Speed's deadpan feminist art-electro helped define the female-fronted electroclash lane Uffie stepped into a few years later.
listen forHear the flat, sardonic vocal delivery of Chicks on Speed's 'We Don't Play Guitars' echoed in the clipped, monotone sass of Uffie's 'Ready to Uff.'