Music for... Writing a pop musical by Yve Blake
First presented to sell-out crowds by Belvoir St Theatre in 2019, the dizzying success of this pop musical phenomenon has cemented FANGIRLS as Australia’s contribution to a Gen Z wave of musical juggernauts—in the company of SIX, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge and more.
When Yve Blake was creating FANGIRLS, she knew that she wanted it to sound like no musical she’d ever heard before.
She knew that she wanted it to sound like the best pop concert she’d never been to, “as dizzying and adrenal as a first crush”. She also knew that it needed to sound like church. “The church of Harry, if you will.”
This playlist, curated by Yve, is a salad of songs that led her to the sound of FANGIRLS. “Prepare for chaos.”
“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!”