Ericdoa

At just 21 years old, ericdoa has already lived multiple lives in the music industry. The artist found his footing in the 2020 hyperpop scene, standing out among his peers with a voice that could melt through steel. Then he took his talents global—on tours with glaive and The Kid Laroi, on the soundtrack of HBO smash Euphoria—growing up fast and tapping into synthpop, dance music, and digitized rock in service of his fiery confessionals. He wrote and produced “greater than one” for Riot Games’ blockbuster video game VALORANT, which has amassed more than 27 million streams worldwide. Now, with his recent single “kickstand,” from his upcoming Interscope album DOA, ericdoa is planning a reset back to the raw, carefree energy that first got him noticed. Growing up in Connecticut, Eric recorded his first songs at 14 and joined an online world of similar- minded vocalists and producers, trading song ideas via Discord during the pandemic. He mixed darkness with absurdity, punching in over scalding productions like 2020’s delirious “movinglikeazombie” and “sheaskedwhatmylifeislike” using every track as bedroom therapy. After he dropped his 2020 album COA—maybe the defining album of the hyperpop/digicore scene— ericdoa vaulted into bigger rooms and onto bigger stages, releasing and touring the electric EP then i’ll be happy he recorded with glaive. The next couple years were a whirlwind—his major label debut things with wings, nonstop touring on his own and with The Kid Laroi, placements on the show Euphoria and the game VALORANT—he started to lose the spark that made him want to pursue music in the first place. “I missed a lot of childhood being in meetings, obsessing over trying to be this artist that I wanted to become,” he says. “I really lost the freeing, adolescent feeling of just creating whatever I wanted.” On DOA, which will be followed by a tour in 2024, Eric encapsulates these feelings, reminding of the talent that made him so beloved during his rise and expanding how we understand him