Magic Legacy by QQBBG

Hentai idol; Otaku purity, QQBBG is the Hong-Kong based artist subverting orientalist fantasies.

As indebted to Japanese Idol culture as she is to the Hardcore Continuum, QQBBG’s world blends the escapist fantasies of Hentai and Manga with the jagged textures of deconstructed club. Drawing from the vocabulary of the global URL generation, QQBBG’s stretches whispered thirst traps & voicemail blowouts to their figurative event horizon - breaking them down until they take on new meaning.

QQBBG is emblematic of a new wave of Hong Kong’s underground. Her sound trades in the commercial slickness that the city thrives on, but doesn’t shy away from confronting the darker side. She adopts signifiers of the E-Girl aesthetic: cute intonations & anime catchphrases, whilst still being underpinned by a nihilist tension - one that acknowledges the racialized gaze that such aesthetics trades on. QQBBG’s music is sweet until it kills you.