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Polly-Louisa Salmon (born 1990) is a British pop singer known by her stage name GFOTY, an abbreviation of Girlfriend of the Year. Since 2014 she has released music through the PC Music label. Much of her best-known work has been in the form of mini-mixes. ==Biography== GFOTY is the daughter of art dealer Jeff Salmon. She grew up in London, England and ran a blog.〔 Her earliest songs include "Take a Picture", which includes rap group Serious Thugs, and "Friday Night". "Friday Night" is a darkly comic take on pop clichés about partying teenagers. A remix of it has since been incorporated into producer Sophie's sets. Her debut single, "Bobby", was released in 2013 via the PC Music record label and collective. It describes feelings of futility after a breakup.〔〔 GFOTY uses a spoken word delivery over a tense, synthesised wall of sound.〔 She released ''Secret Mix'' in March 2014. It includes cover versions of songs by Celine Dion, Toni Braxton, and Carly Simon. Tiny Mix Tapes named ''Secret Mix'' the third best music release of 2014. She also appeared on PC Music's mix for ''DIS Magazine'' DISown. Focusing on the relationship between art and commerce, her contribution includes conspicuous product placement for Red Bull.〔 One of the songs from her mix became her second single "Don't Wanna / Let's Do It". It creates an uneasy mood by taking two conflicting phrases and frantically sampling them. GFOTY contributed vocals to "Hard", the B-side to Sophie's "Lemonade" single. In September 2014, producer Ryan Hemsworth released the compilation EP ''shh#ffb6c1'' on his pseudo-label Secret Songs. He featured a GFOTY track named "My Song". Shortly after, she collaborated with PC Music artist Maxo on "Not That Bad".〔 For Halloween in 2014, GFOTY appeared alongside fellow label artists including A. G. Cook and Danny L Harle for a special live Halloween webcast named ''Dead or Alive''. All artists appeared for one night only, as their spooky alter egos of which GFOTY became, Ghoulfriend of the Year. The show was broadcast in the UK, USA, Denmark and Japan. In 2015 GFOTY released a mix titled ''Cake Mix''. It is composed of bright, saccharine songs interspersed with buzzing, glitchy breakdowns. The mix includes an adaptation of Peter Andre's 1996 single "Mysterious Girl" featuring Bubbler Ranx and a cover of Blink-182's 2000 single "All the Small Things". Her ''Dog Food Mix 1'' with PC Music artist Spinee is a reworking of GFOTY's earlier songs. A second mix came in May 2015. A full-length release is planned for 2015. March 2015 saw GFOTY head to the USA to play the PC Music showcase at the Empire Garage in Austin, Texas as part of SXSW. Her performance was very well received with Exclaim writing that it was a "fascinating set" 〔http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/gfoty-empire_garage_austin_tx_march_19〕 and Noisey saying "Here's what I did when I saw GFOTY, which was probably the best thing I've seen all week: I fucking lost my mind. I loved it. I was ecstatic." 〔http://noisey.vice.com/blog/pc-music-sxsw-showcase-review-gfoty-hannah-diamond-qt-ag-cook〕 On 8 May 2015, GFOTY performed as part of a PC Music show at BRIC House in Brooklyn, New York as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival. The show was billed as the premiere of Pop Cube, "a multimedia reality network".〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/arts/music/review-pc-music-and-sophie-in-a-high-concept-extravaganza-at-bric-house.html?_r=0〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GFOTY」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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