Poppy: “What I’ve experienced in the past is a story worth telling” As Kerrang! round up 2020’s biggest names to tell us all about their year, Poppy reveals how – having bookended her year with releases – she hasn’t let a pandemic stop her from realising her creative vision… Words: Luke Morton Photo: Jonathan Weiner The year began so positively for Poppy. At the start of 2020 she dropped her genre-mashing album I Disagree, making her debut appearance in the Billboard charts and onto the cover of Kerrang! magazine for the very first time, wielding a bloody axe in the process. A brief tour followed before You Know What happened, sending years of planning into disarray. But as you might expect from someone so outrageously innovative and ambitious, the idea of being locked down didn’t hamper any notion of creativity. In fact, Poppy (real name Moriah Rose Pereira) used this time to work out the next chapter of her story, focusing on who she is and – more importantly –