Elliott Ferrous-Martin Platt (born February 24, 2004), known professionally as Elyotto (stylized as ElyOtto), is a Canadian musician. He is best known for his song "

SugarCrash! "Sugar Crash!" (stylized as "SugarCrash!") is a song written, produced, and performed by Canadian musician ElyOtto. It was released on August 25, 2020. A remix featuring Kim Petras and Curtis Waters was released on April 23, 2021. Background a ...

", which went viral on

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in early 2021.

Life and career

Elliott Ferrous-Martin Platt was born in 2004 to parents Mike, a musician and songwriter, and Natasha Sayer, a music teacher and musician, and raised in

Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...

, Canada. After getting fired from his job at a pet store in Calgary in spring 2020, ElyOtto committed his time to working on songs and uploading them to

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. His debut single "

" was released in August 2020. He followed this with his single "Teeth!". "SugarCrash!" went viral on TikTok after ElyOtto posted a video using the song to the platform a week after its release, and he was soon signed to

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. His debut EP is due for release later in 2022. In April 2021, a remix of "SugarCrash!" featuring

Kim Petras Kim Petras (born 27 August 1992) is a German singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Between 2016 and 2020, she released music as an independent artist under her own imprint, BunHead Records, before signing with Amigo and Republ ...

and

Curtis Waters Abhinav Bastakoti (born December 20, 1999), known by his stage name Curtis Waters, is a Canadian-American musician and songwriter. He is known for his self-produced 2020 debut single " Stunnin'". He is the first Nepal-born musician to attain inte ...

was released. His single "Profane" was released in August 2021.

Artistry

ElyOtto's music has been described as

hyperpop Hyperpop is a loosely-defined music movement and microgenre that predominantly originated in the United Kingdom during the early-to-mid 2010s. It is characterized by a maximalist or exaggerated take on popular music, and artists within the genre ...

and pop, and he has described his own music as hyperpop and pop. He has called his own music "sweet flashy runway pop" or "evil crusty I've-been-dead-since-1836 pop", and has described hyperpop as "a very trans sounding genre where you can manipulate your voice and use all these crazy flashy synths" that "still feels authentic because of the lyrics." His lyrics often revolve around his

gender dysphoria Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assigned at birth. The diagnostic label gender identity disorder (GID) was used until ...

and queer identity, and he regularly uses

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on his vocals. ''

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'' referred to ElyOtto as "the face of hyperpop" in April 2021.

Personal life

Platt is

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. He has described himself as "a little bit on the gender noncomforming side".

Discography

Albums

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

References

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