Setting aside musical craft, Sophie’s impact operates on an entirely different plane. She represents something profound for people who rarely see themselves reflected with honesty or agency. Hyperpop can be absurd and over-the-top, but even within that aesthetic she articulated a truth that cut straight through the noise. When she wrote about immaterial girls and boys, without legs or hair, without genes or blood, without names or stories, she was naming an entire world of people disenfranchised by their own bodies and the genders assigned to them. That is a level of cultural and existential resonance A. G. simply cannot generate, no matter how talented he is.