Seven Questions With Girl Group

If the words “girl group” makes you think of industry-manufactured pop machines and sparkly choreography, let us stop you right there. Girl Group — the real one — is a messy, magical, feminist force rewriting what it means to take up space in the music world. Born out of friendship, frustration, and a lot of glitter, the five-piece met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and decided to do things their way: fully DIY, fully woman-led, and fully chaotic in the best way.

Music Is To Blame caught up with them just before their explosive opening set for Olivia Dean in Paris, where they left a crowd of new fans screaming. With their debut EP ‘Think They’re Looking, Let’s Perform’ just released on June 20th, the timing couldn’t be more perfect. In this Seven Questions series, we talk about community, being fangirls, filming music videos with no budget and big dreams, and the power of building something that feels like home. 

This is Girl Group, and trust us, you’re going to want to join the party.

Introduce yourselves and where you're from. 

Mia: We are four Norwegian girls: me, Thea, Maria, Katya are from Norway, and Lil is from Yorkshire!

Lil: We’re all from all over, but we met in Liverpool at Uni.

Mia: So, the band started in Liverpool!

What do our readers need to know about Girl Group?

Mia: Our main goal with Girl Group is to try and challenge the boys club in the music industry. One of the most important things for us is to bring women together and get each other and ourselves to believe more in ourselves and each other. Also, show that a woman's way of doing things could be just as good or even better. We want to champion all the genders – especially in the time we live in, I think it’s very important to include as many people as you can. For us, it’s been important to prioritise women and non binary people, especially in a system constantly trying to put them down. This is our main point – while trying to have fun!

Thea: We also want to create a comfortable place for us. In the music industry, there’s a lot of misogyny. Having a safe space where women can bring ideas and not feel stupid, underappreciated, or not good enough, is our goal.

Mia: The safety of making mistakes as well. When you grow up, you’re being told that you don’t belong somewhere or that you have to be perfect to belong there. But you will never be perfect if you can’t make mistakes!

What have you got coming up that you’re the most excited for?

Thea: The EP release on June 20th, of course! We’re having a little release party for that. [The interview took place on June 16th, 2025]

Mia: Birthday parties are very important for us. We take them so seriously, it’s religion. We love putting on a good time, and Liverpool is very community-based. Lately we’re also travelling a bit now and writing… a lot of things to look forward to!

What’s the best run-in you’ve had with a fan?

Lil: We’ve had the best moment at Olivia’s last show in London – we just encountered some really true fangirls, fully crying, being like “I really love you!”

Mia: They were shaking walking up to us!

Lil: It was a mad thing to experience. There’s other people that we gave autographs to. It was a lovely feeling, we felt like celebrities! Especially for people who’ve been those girls.

Mia: We’ve all been such fangirls. I’ve been there crying, screaming, waiting in line. This brings us back to the project. I wish I had someone at 13 that showed it could be done by all women. Obviously we had so many great women who paved the way – but in this industry you have to be so polished, so perfect. Seeing these 13-year-old girls get so excited by Girl Group, even if it was so messy, so imperfect, so chaotic – we were just happy that they get representation. It sounds a bit pretentious, but it’s not (laughs)

Fangirls run the world, but they are always shitted on – they were the ones who discovered the Beatles, they were the ones who discovered good music, and it’s not until old men take over that it’s quality. For me, we’ve made it if we get fangirls.

What’s been your biggest “I’ve made it” moment so far?

Lil: Honestly, just being here! [Opening for Olivia Dean in Paris on June 16, 2025]

Thea: We played a few shows this last half 2025, but walking on stage at the first Olivia show and hearing the vibrations in the room was such a “wow I can’t believe this is happening” moment. Also, when we shot three music videos in three days, with a whole female lead team – we thought “there are actually external people who are very invested in what we do, who want us to do great, and do great with us”. This is an important thing of what we are: we’re not just these five girls that are Girl Group, Girl Group is a community that we want to incorporate all women in. It’s so amazing to see fantastically talented women that want to work with us!

Mia: They were doing it on such a low budget and even though we hadn’t released anything, all of these talented women were there. Just seeing this room full of women working together was amazing. We’ve been talking about these music videos for years and when it’s done, seeing them is just surreal. I watch these videos once a week!

Thea: All the views are just Mia! (laughs)

What are your three “desert island” albums? 

Mia: As a group, Wet Leg’s debut album is kinda what brought us together. We are obsessed with Addison Raye’s style. We’ve also been heavily inspired by Brat [ed. Charli XCX’s album]! It just makes sense – we are so different as well, it’s the girly pops that are bringing us together. It’s cool, strong women, that are being very unapologetic and out there.

Lil: It’s been very cool to see pop women being more and more experimental – like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter or Lily Allen.

Mia: I think the EP coming out on the 20th is heavily inspired by Brat since we finished it that Brat summer!

Sum up your sound in three words.

Lil: Her-made, confident, girly.

 Lydia Sedda
@inlydseyes

Images: Lydia Sedda

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