How to Play Lowlife

How to Play Lowlife is a video on the Poppy YouTube channel. It is the 47th video of the Poppy era. It was uploaded on April 12th, 2016 and has since been deleted. The original upload had over 2 million views.

Theme
This video is thought to be a commentary on the simplistic, formulaic nature of pop music. Poppy presents this video as a tutorial on how to play her song "Lowlife", but in actuality only plays ten guitar chords without instructing where the chords are in the context of the song. In essence, the song is stripped down to its very basic chord changes.

Transcript
Today we're going to learn how to play my song "Lowlife".

First go like this.

[Poppy plays four chords on her guitar]

And then go like this.

[Poppy plays six more chords]

Now you know how to play my song "Lowlife".

Trivia

 * Although the reasoning as to why the video was deleted is currently unknown, Poppy stated on April 1st, 2020 that she does not play "Lowlife" live anymore because the song gives her post-traumatic stress disorder. This could likely be the reasoning as to why.