Listeners Suspicious Of Interesting New Artist That Seemingly Has No Industry Connections Or Background

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact

A Betoota Ponds-based artist known only as BrokenCuck has this week become the subject of intense national scrutiny after listeners discovered he apparently just makes music, completely unprompted, with no discernible connection to anyone.

The 19-year-old, whose genre has been described variously as horrorcore, emo rap, lo-fi trap, pop-punk, alternative rock, rap rock, has reportedly never attended a music industry networking event, does not have a manager whose dad owns a publishing house and was not even in a band at performing arts high school.

His press shot was taken in a Betoota Ponds Woolworths carpark at 11pm. He does not appear to own a shirt.

Triple J added his single to high rotation last month following a Unearthed submission, a pathway the station nominally maintains and which has not produced anything this unconnected to the industry since approximately 2009.

Fellow emerging Australian artists, several of whom are the children of people you've heard of, have been broadly supportive while noting privately that the name alone should have disqualified him.

A talent manager who asked not to be named confirmed his firm had begun investigating whether BrokenCuck's parents had ever worked at ARIA, attended an industry function or been in a band with someone from Sydney. At time of publication they had not, and one of his parents works at Repco.

The investigation continues.

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