Music for...
Writing a pop musical
by Yve Blake

Starting with an acapella track?! Bold! But you'll soon see why. The first time that I heard this acapella arrangement I think I maybe cried? The bit where they all go 'aliiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIve' changed my personality. 

The opening synth of this song is a bonafide antidepressant. Ask anyone. I played this song on repeat to remember the hyper, technicolour euphoria of being a teenager. 

Put respect on Ricki-Lee Coulter's name. This song came out when I was teenager and still makes me go absolutely feral. It's timeless. To me it has huge getting-ready-for-the-party-at-your-friend's-house energy, which, sometimes - is actually more fun than being at the party. Also, why is the  letter 'T' in 'Can'T' capitalised? If anyone can tell me, pls reach out. 

To be a teenager is to feel like you're the main character in a movie. Everything feels like the stakes are life or death. So, I knew that this score needed to get ✨cinematic✨, and this song does just that. 

Oyyyykay things just got spooky! FANGIRLS is about a girl who will stop at nothing, and I always knew that I wanted the show to take... a dark turn. The sound of this song was an early reference for how I wanted the audience to feel. The spooky backing vocals, the organ-like synth, the DRAMA of it!

Now we're in full-out churchworld. THIS is what I mean when I say that I wanted the score to sound like church. It's giving 👼 angelic 👼. I showed this song to our vocal arranger Alice Chance as a reference, and boy did she DELIVER. 

I would risk it all for Mura Masa. His production was such an inspiration to me while I was crafting the first ever demos of FANGIRLS on my laptop. One of the reasons that I ended up hiring our (INCREDIBLE) music producer David Muratore was because his work reminded me so much of this song. 

Being a teenager is mayhem. It's chaotic. It's hyperactive. It's anxious, and sometimes a bit scary. So is this song, so I became obsessed with it. 

The MOST fun part of the show to write, without contest, was the medley of four fake boy band songs. This song was not-not a reference. 

I simply must close us out with a track from our very own music producer, David Muratore - aka 'Wax Ecstatic'. Dave crafted this track while sitting in tech for our original season, and that's how this track got it's name (okay... cute).