That wasn't initially the plan. I Am Not Okay With This creator Jonathan Entwistle asked Coxon, who was the composer on Entwistle's other show The End Of The F*cking World, to write a song for the moment when viewers finally get to hear Stanley's favorite band. He ended up with "Fly," a haunting track that instantly turns Syd into a fan. But then he just kept writing Bloodwitch songs.
When the Blondie-esque track, "Hey Little Girl," popped up in the trailer, fans went searching for more info on Bloodwitch, which for clarification sake is still a fake band. "That's lovely," Coxon tells Refinery29 over the phone. "I wanted it to sound like a real band."
For Coxon, it kind of was a real band. He came up with a whole backstory for Bloodwitch: the female-male duo started in 1983 when they were between 16 and 19 years old. They were influenced by the Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Bloodwitch is "sort of a mixture of a lot of bands that I loved when I was a teenager," the 50-year-old Coxon admits. But, he would classify the band's sound as “cute folk horror," which he feels complements the show's natural charm.
Coxon wanted the made for TV band to help these teen outcasts feel a little less alone. But admits the music he wrote for the show also brought him back in time. "It just makes me feel like being 15," he says of listening to the album, which he thinks of as the band's greatest hits compilation.
Listen to the record all the way through, Coxon says, and you'll hear the subtle changes in the band's sound over the course of their career. (He believes the punk track "Motorcade" was Bloodwitch's debut single and that they mellowed out with age.)
Coxon is already thinking about the next Bloodwitch album should I Am Not Okay With Thisget picked up for a second season. He's also looking to get Netflix to sell Bloodwitch merch and hopes fans will help him convince the streamer to do so.
"It would be cool if people just made their own and gave us some ideas about what it should look like," says Coxon, who wore his own D.I.Y. Bloodwitch shirt repurposed from his favorite Blondie tee to the recent I Am Not Okay With This premiere. "I might Twitter that.”
Really enjoying the album. Love the intro to the Fly - I think Phil Spector will be after Graham haha
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/02/9477633/is-bloodwitch-a-real-band-i-am-not-okay-with-this-interview
That wasn't initially the plan. I Am Not Okay With This creator Jonathan Entwistle asked Coxon, who was the composer on Entwistle's other show The End Of The F*cking World, to write a song for the moment when viewers finally get to hear Stanley's favorite band. He ended up with "Fly," a haunting track that instantly turns Syd into a fan. But then he just kept writing Bloodwitch songs.
When the Blondie-esque track, "Hey Little Girl," popped up in the trailer, fans went searching for more info on Bloodwitch, which for clarification sake is still a fake band. "That's lovely," Coxon tells Refinery29 over the phone. "I wanted it to sound like a real band."
For Coxon, it kind of was a real band. He came up with a whole backstory for Bloodwitch: the female-male duo started in 1983 when they were between 16 and 19 years old. They were influenced by the Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Bloodwitch is "sort of a mixture of a lot of bands that I loved when I was a teenager," the 50-year-old Coxon admits. But, he would classify the band's sound as “cute folk horror," which he feels complements the show's natural charm.
Coxon wanted the made for TV band to help these teen outcasts feel a little less alone. But admits the music he wrote for the show also brought him back in time. "It just makes me feel like being 15," he says of listening to the album, which he thinks of as the band's greatest hits compilation.
Listen to the record all the way through, Coxon says, and you'll hear the subtle changes in the band's sound over the course of their career. (He believes the punk track "Motorcade" was Bloodwitch's debut single and that they mellowed out with age.)
Coxon is already thinking about the next Bloodwitch album should I Am Not Okay With Thisget picked up for a second season. He's also looking to get Netflix to sell Bloodwitch merch and hopes fans will help him convince the streamer to do so.
"It would be cool if people just made their own and gave us some ideas about what it should look like," says Coxon, who wore his own D.I.Y. Bloodwitch shirt repurposed from his favorite Blondie tee to the recent I Am Not Okay With This premiere. "I might Twitter that.”
It's a work of geius. I'm loving it.
I'm Yours Tonight is just perfect - even if it is an obvious rehash of Angry Me.
Hey - Hello ! enjoying me some bloodwitch while waiting for the end of the world....
Just Seventeen (not that I make a habit of reading it!) claim the Bloodwitch stuff's been done by some fella named Graham Cox.
https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/a31161338/who-is-bloodwitch-i-am-not-okay-with-this-band/