YMMV / PC Music

• Common Knowledge:
  • Due to SOPHIE being seen as very close to PC Music in terms of music sensibilities and collaborative efforts, it's a very common assumption that she was part of its roster. In actuality, she never officially signed onto the label, having released music on other labels including Numbers and Transgressive.
  • Similarly, QT is considered a major PC Music affiliate, but she isn't actually signed to the label, with her only major music record "Hey QT" being released by XL Recordings. That being said, Hayden Dunham (or rather her new moniker, Hyd) did end up releasing music through PC Music in 2021.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • PC Music's audience tends to get along really well with that of Charli XCX, primarily due to her consistent mainstream crossovers with the label's producers and sounds ever since her Vroom Vroom EP in 2016.
  • There's also crossover with fans of Kero Kero Bonito, partly due to Gus Lobban/Kane West being one of the trio's members, and sharing a more straightfoward, but similarly quirky and fun pop sound to PC Music.
  • In general, PC Music's audience has a pretty broad crossover with many other non-label acts who take inspiration from and/or occupy the same alternative pop/electronic field, such as Slayyyter, LIZ, 100 gecs, Dorian Electra, and Kim Petras.
• Funny Moments:
  • The entirety of Danny L. Harle's 2014 Halloween liveset, filled with hilarious dancing, a bizarrely-edited radio-style announcer, inherently memetic nicknames, and a constantly-interrupting and very spooky skeleton.
  • The intermission skits of GFOTY and Spinee's Dog Food mixes is jam-packed with laughs, featuring the two in clumsily-acted and zany scenarios full of borderline Word-Salad Humor.
    Spinee: My leg's on fire, can you help? I absolutely thought that turkey neck was the perfect ingredient.
    GFOTY: Why didn't you hire the fireman? I hate your own leg anyway, this is your own fault.
    Spinee: At least we're in the safe room. I'm bleeding over the last vat of dog food! I think we can still sell it, I don't think anyone will notice.
    (PUNCH)
    Spinee: I think we're gonna die in this fire.
    GFOTY: I think you're going to die. Did you not think about insurance? You're losing control!
    Spinee: You're not even fireproof! I'm not gonna die today.
    (noises of audience frustration then applause)
• I Am Not Shazam: Inverted; it isn't uncommon to find people referring to "PC Music" as its own distinct subgenre of electronic/pop music rather than a defined label and collective (whose genre categorization tends to fall under "bubblegum bass" or "hyperpop").
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A sizeable portion of Hannah Diamond fans weren't amused when 6 of the 10 tracks of Reflections were previously-released singles from the past few years, including 3 from the self-contained Soon I won't see you at all EP.
• LGBT Fanbase: The label has its fair share of these fans despite not explicitly having many major LGBT members or even themes. Part of this can be due to its occasional crossover with Drag Queens (Kim Chi starring in the video for Danny L. Harle's "Me4U" and SOPHIE's infamous 2014 Boiler Room "performance"), but it can also be likely attributed to the generally fun and quirky sounds of the label released by gender-ambiguous artists naturally crossing over into that audience.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Whenever acts suffer from productive Schedule Slips (most infamously Hannah Diamond and GFOTY), many fans are quick to joke that they're "trapped in A.G. Cook's basement."
    • With A.G. Cook's regular production with Charli XCX, the meme has also manifested as "A.G. trapped in Charli's basement."
  • HUGE DANNY^Explanation A common nickname/Catchphrase for Danny L. Harle, stemming from his Dead or Alive liveset, along with a few other random nicknames including "Danny Sunshine" and "Danny 'Dick in the Pants' Harle".
• Most Wonderful Sound: The bridge of Hannah Diamond's "Make Believe", commonly remembered as Hannah Diamond singing an electric guitar solo.
• Narm Charm: Hannah Diamond really runs with this trope, as much of her discography is simplistic and at times incredibly cheesy, almost to the point of post-parody, yet also so heartbreakingly sincere that fans wouldn't have her any other way.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Many have found that Kane West's remix of Danny L. Harle's "Broken Flowers" sounds a lot like Frankie Knuckles' "The Whistle Song".
• Tear Jerker: Despite her hyper-polished veneer, a surprising amount of Hannah Diamond's discography falls into this, with several brutally honest songs about waning and passed relationships, including "Fade Away", "True", and everything from Soon I won't see you at all.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: PC Music's signature style has been occasionally described as falling into a rare auditory example of this trope, where the combined over-repetitiveness, synthetic instrumentals, bright colors, and pitch-shifted vocals result in something that sounds "off". Lipgloss Twins, for example, plunges straight into this.
• Vindicated by History: While the group has always had a cult following, PC Music was extremely divisive among critics early on, with many unsure of how to approach its postmodern take on pop and dance music, if not outright dismissing it as gimmicky novelty. Nowadays, as its influence has slowly creeped into the indie electronic/pop scene, with twinges of mainstream popularity like Charli XCX or huge cult acts like 100 gecs, favor has since turned, with many now assessing PC Music as being one of the most forward-thinking and influential pop movements of The New '10s.

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