Bloodboy, also known as Lexie Papilion, is an emerging LA artist who is bent on shaking up the pop world with thought provoking music and lyrics. She worked with producers, Justin L. Raisen and Thom Monahan to create a more human sounding, rough around the edges, pop sound. Originally influenced by the early punk movement, Bloodboy has hit the scene to push the limits of alternative pop and create conversation.
Not many people would consider getting kicked off their high-school surf team “lucky,” but it’s hard for Lexie Papilion to see it any other way. The incident led her to focus more seriously on music, and the songs she ended up writing in college gave her more satisfaction than any competition trophy. Smothered in distortion and reminiscent of the punk she grew up listening to, those songs only sort of resemble the bracing, anthemic indie pop Papilion is producing today under the moniker of Bloodboy. Now in her mid-20s and about to release her debut EP, Bloodboy has found a comfortable home in the space between dirty, nasty punk and shimmering electropop. She doesn’t consider herself a pop artist, per se, but a voice as impressive as hers has nowhere to end up but the FM airwaves. Listening to a deceptively complex arrangements it’s scary to think that the late-blooming musician only recently learned how to play guitar after stubbornly refusing for years. Scary, and a little unfair.
It is, that’s true. But sonically, because I was producing for such a long time at such a rudimentary level, I couldn’t execute the ideas that I wanted to. I could hear it, but I couldn’t get it to sound that way. So for a long time, I would take songs to producers, and they would be like, “This sounds like electropop.” And I would say, “No! That’s not what I want!”
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