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Olly Alexander

Electropop
Electropop

Olly Alexander is a Electropop act. Their sound grew out of Danny L Harle. Those roots explain a lot about how Olly Alexander arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mae Muller, Loreen, The Saturdays, Will Young and Remember Monday, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sugababes, Wolf Alice and Beth Ditto, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Olly Alexander, reaching back through Danny L Harle and forward to Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Olly AlexanderDanny L HarleSophie Ellis-BextorSugababesWolf AliceBeth DittoMae MullerLoreenThe SaturdaysWill YoungRemember MondayNicola RobertsKyle AlessandroEmmy

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Olly Alexander connections

Olly Alexander grew out of Danny L Harle, shares an orbit with Mae Muller, Loreen, The Saturdays and Will Young, went on to shape Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sugababes, Wolf Alice and Beth Ditto. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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