Am I a Girl?

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Am I a Girl?Studio album by Poppy
General information
Featured Artist(s)	Diplo Grimes Garibay
Released	October 31st, 2018
Genre	Art pop • synthpop • dance-pop • heavy metal
Length	39:28
Label	Mad Decent / I'm Poppy Records
Producer(s)	Aryay Chris Greatti Diplo DNNYD Garibay Grimes MIRO Ryosuke "Dr. R" Sakai Titanic Sinclair Tommy Rocks U-Tern Wax Motif Zakk Cervini
Poppy chronology
Previous	Poppy.Remixes
Current	Am I a Girl?
Next	Choke

Am I a Girl? is the second studio album by Poppy. The album was released on October 31^st, 2018.

Background and Conception

Poppy began recording the album before going on the Poppy.Computer Tour. In an interview, she stated that its genre is a "new type of pop music". On January 12^th, 2018, Poppy revealed in an interview that the album was complete. On May 15^th, 2018, Poppy confirmed the title by tweeting "Ready 4 album title?", followed by an image of her with the caption "Am I a girl?". Later, it was confirmed by Titanic Sinclair that the album had been completed on July 21^st, 2018.

Theme

Poppy stated that the album focuses on questioning gender, identity, robots, and expensive fashion. Unlike her previous album Poppy.Computer, the album steps away from the character of Poppy on most songs.

Am I a Girl? Tour

Poppy first announced a tour to promote the album on July 10^th, 2018. Ticket presale began on July 11^th, 2018, with general sale beginning on July 13^th, 2018. The tour began with a warm-up show in Vancouver, British Columbia at the Westward Music Festival on September 14^th, 2018. The first leg took place in Eurasia between September 22^nd, 2018 and October 31^st, 2018, while the second leg took place in North America between January 31^st, 2019 and February 27^th, 2019.

Tracklist

No.	Title	Artist	Writer(s)	Producer	Length
1.	"In a Minute"	Poppy	Poppy, Simon Wilcox, Sir Nolan, Kate Nash	Ryosuke Sakai	2:54
2.	"Fashion After All"	Poppy	Poppy, Titanic Sinclair, Tommy English	Wax Motif	3:24
3.	"Iconic"	Poppy	Poppy, Sinclair, Wilcox	Fernando Garibay, DNNYD, MIRO	2:52
4.	"Chic Chick"	Poppy	Poppy, English, Sinclair, Wilcox	U-Tern	2:54
5.	"Interlude 1"	Poppy	Poppy	Sakai	0:47
6.	"Time Is Up"	Poppy Diplo	Poppy, Sinclair, English, U-Tern, Diplo, Tommy Rocks, Wilcox, Alvaro	Diplo, U-Tern, Alvaro, Tommy Rocks	3:31
7.	"Aristocrat"	Poppy Garibay	Poppy, Sinclair, Garibay, Wilcox	Garibay, DNNYD, MIRO	3:21
8.	"Hard Feelings"	Poppy	Poppy, Sinclair, Chris Greatti, Wilcox, Garibay	Garibay, DNNYD, MIRO	3:39
9.	"Girls in Bikinis"	Poppy	Poppy, Sinclair, Wilcox	U-Tern	2:25
10.	"The Rapture Ball"	Poppy	Poppy, Sinclair, Wilcox, English	Aryay	3:00
11.	"Interlude 2"	Poppy	Poppy	Sakai	1:06
12.	"Am I a Girl?"	Poppy	Poppy, Sinclair, Wilcox	Sinclair, Zakk Cervini	3:38
13.	"Play Destroy"	Poppy Grimes	Poppy, Sinclair, Greatti, Grimes	Greatti, Grimes	3:05
14.	"X"	Poppy	Poppy, Sinclair, Greatti, Cervini	Cervini, Greatti	2:54

Singles

"In a Minute" was released to digital retailers through I'm Poppy Records and Mad Decent on July 27^th, 2018, and served as the first single to the album. Poppy co-wrote the song with Simon Wilcox, Sir Nolan and Kate Nash, and it was produced by Ryosuke Sakai.

"Time Is Up" was released to digital retailers through I'm Poppy Records and Mad Decent along with its music video on August 22^nd, 2018, and served as the second single to the album. Poppy co-wrote the song with Tommy English, Titanic Sinclair, U-Tern, Diplo, Tommy Rocks, Simon Wilcox and Alvaro, and it was produced by Diplo, U-Tern, Alvaro and Tommy Rocks.

"Fashion After All" was released to digital retailers through I'm Poppy Records and Mad Decent on October 12^th, 2018, and served as the third single to the album. Poppy co-wrote the song with Tommy English and Titanic Sinclair, and it was produced by Wax Motif.

"Hard Feelings" was released to digital retailers through I'm Poppy Records and Mad Decent on October 19^th, 2018, and served as the fourth single to the album. Poppy co-wrote the song with Titanic Sinclair, Chris Greatti, Simon Wilcox and Fernando Garibay, and it was produced by Garibay, DNNYD and MIRO.

"X" was released to digital retailers through I'm Poppy Records and Mad Decent on October 25^th, 2018, and served as the fifth single to the album. Poppy co-wrote the song with Titanic Sinclair, Chris Greatti and Zakk Cervini, and it was produced by Greatti and Cervini.

Gallery

Am I a Girl? CD

Am I a Girl? vinyl

Urban Outfitters exclusive red vinyl

Photoshoot

Colored and uncropped artwork.

Colored and uncropped back cover.

Back cover

Promotional picture.

Promotional picture.

Promotional picture.

Promotional picture.

Promotional picture.

Promotional picture and also used for "Time Is Up" vinyl.

Trivia

• This is Poppy's longest album in length, being 39:28 long.
• Simon Wilcox went to Japan with Poppy and Titanic Sinclair to help with the album.
• Poppy and Grimes recorded "a couple of songs" for the album, with Poppy stating that one song would be about destroying things and another would be about power. However, only one of these songs, "Play Destroy", made the album.
  • The song about power is "We Appreciate Power", which was released by Grimes and features American singer-songwriter HANA instead of Poppy. Poppy has talked about the scrapped song on a Q&A in Discord in 2020.
• "Scary Mask" and "We Appreciate Power" were intended to be on Am I a Girl?, but were later scrapped.
  • In an interview with Gigwise, Poppy revealed that "Scary Mask" was originally going to be on the album, but was later used for the Choke EP instead.
  • It is speculated that "Immature Couture" was also intended to be on the album, but was later scrapped.
• On November 25^th, 2018, Poppy tweeted out "Am I A Girl (stripped)", hinting at at either a stripped version of the album or the song of the same name. However, this never materialized.
• The male backing vocals on the album were sung by Titanic Sinclair and Chris Greatti.
• The female backing vocals on the album were sung by Simon Wilcox.
• Poppy stated on the Zach Sang Show that she rewrote the album twice.
  • She also stated in the interview that half of the album was a "preview" for her next album, I Disagree.
• Poppy and Titanic Sinclair have stated that "X" is their favorite song and music video from the album.
• The placement of "Chic Chick" and "Interlude 1" in the tracklist were later swapped for unknown reasons.
• "Interlude 1" and "Interlude 2" are excluded from the tracklist of the physical version of the album, being replaced by "+" symbols.
• The front, back, and inner sleeve artwork were photographed by Sam McGuire.
• On October 5^th, 2019, Poppy unlisted all of the album's YouTube audio uploads, excluding "Am I a Girl?", "Play Destroy" and "X", for unknown reasons.