Off Campus Changed G Flip’s Life, And They’re Eyeing A Season 2 Cameo

This story was originally publish on R29’s Australia edition. The whole world is raving about Off Campus at the moment, and one of the coolest things about the steamy hockey show blowing up is seeing Australian musicians garner worldwide popularity at the same time. G Flip, whose song Bed On Fire was used during Hannah Wells (Ella Bright) and Garrett Graham’s (Belmont Cameli) sexy montage in Episode 4, has been overwhelmed by the response. Their streams and followers have “skyrocketed”, and it has changed the trajectory of their career. While they’ve been big in Australia for a long time, G Flip spent the last five years trying to break into the US and Europe music scene — and the Off Campus feature has put them firmly on the map.

When I sat down to speak with G Flip about the wild journey since the show was released, they told me about how this bump in popularity could open new doors, how proud Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause is of them, and why they said yes to Off Campus in the first place. Oh, and G Flip would do anything to get a cameo role in Off Campus Season 2.

Refinery29: Congrats on your success, G Flip! How does it feel to have your song be used in the most iconic sex scene of Off Campus Season 1?

G Flip: I’m so fortunate, and so lucky that I got the best part of the whole series. The whole build up is them getting together, and they played my whole song. So I’m so fortunate and so lucky, and I thank the Off Campus music team so much for using my song, and like it just worked so well.

R29: It’s pretty spicy, what did you think when you watched that scene?

GF: I was like, oh my lord, I haven’t seen this much heterosexual sex in a long time. But no, it was great. It was hot. I really liked how it intercut with everyday things like making lasagna and stuff. I think my song and the scenes in the sequence did it justice, it was so paired well together.

R29: And the song is actually about your experience with a woman. Was it odd to see it with a heterosexual couple?

GF: Not really, because the song’s about giving into your desire of wanting someone. In my experience it was being queer and I desired someone, and I felt like I shouldn’t be getting with them, or wanting to have these desires, or wanting to sleep with this person, and then giving into it, and that euphoric feeling of finally getting together.

It’s not like really a sexy song, it’s more like euphoric and kind of celebratory, and I feel like while Hannah and Garrett are not a queer couple, it has the same feeling. Two people that desire each other, that feel like they shouldn’t be hooking up with each other, because that wasn’t the plan. So although mine came from a queer experience, it’s kind of that same experience of giving into your desire, setting the bed on fire and just making sweet love.

R29: How has this feature changed your life?

GF: So many people are discovering my music and my other songs. Obviously, the data online has skyrocketed. I’m well known in the Australian music scene, and I’ve been very successful in the Aussie music scene, but for five years I’ve lived in LA to try get my artist project off the ground in the US and Europe and the UK and just other places other than Australia. This has really given me an opportunity to help try attempt to make that happen.

Obviously, when festivals look for support slots, they look at your data, and they look at your numbers, and this has really helped me. It shows that I’m streaming not only in Australia but elsewhere. I’m just hoping something comes of it in the next few months. But even if it doesn’t, I’ve gained more fans globally, which I’m just so stoked about, because I just want more people to hear my music.

R29: Is there anything you hope in particular to achieve off the back of this success?

GF: I would obviously love to play Coachella one day, and I would love to do an international support slot. I’ve never supported a big support slot overseas. I’ve done smaller artists in more club-sized rooms, but never a bigger artist, and I want to play more overseas festivals in Europe and the UK including Glastonbury. I just want to branch out and tick some bigger things off off my list.

R29: How did your song get picked, did Josh Heuston help?

GF: I’m not sure if that’s how it directly happened. I know that Josh did really encourage Aussie music to be part of the show, so that’s why there is a lot of Aussie artists. But at the start of January, I got an email from my publishers saying my song Bed On Fire has gone in for a sync of this new hockey series that is called Off Campus, and that it will be used in a love montage, and it might include Garrett’s naked butt in it. I was like, absolutely, we got some butt cheeks. Let’s go.

R29: Off Campus Season 2 is about to start filming. Would you want to do a cameo?

GF: Oh my god, yes. I will learn how to ice skate. I will do anything. I will do whatever. That would be great. I would love to.

R29: Who do we need to call?

GF: I know! Who do we call? I’m up. I’ll get acting lessons, whatever you want.

R29: Has seeing the music live inside someone else’s story change the way you hear the song yourself?

GF: Now every time I play it live, I’m going to be thinking of Garrett’s abs, I reckon. I can’t wait to play it live. I never thought it was like the loudest song, it wasn’t an encore song. But now I’m like, alright, we gotta change up the set list, this is like now maybe my biggest song, so that’s really, really exciting. Me and my band have always had the most fun performing this song, which is so fun that now it’s going to be a lot of people’s favorite song to hear back.

R29: Do you love how this series has championed Aussie artists?

GF: 100%. We have so much good music and good artists that come out of Australia, so the more it can be championed over here in these big blockbuster and extremely successful American or Canadian TV shows, it helps our careers so much. It really does help our global streaming numbers. In streaming, you can get stuck in an Australian cycle where you’re just paired next to other Aussie artists, so only Aussies really discover you. To break out of that streaming cycle can be really hard.

So, when shows put you in sync, and then you get numbers outside of Australia, it really can help transform your career, and then you have the data to show Coachella, or these other festivals that I do have fans over here, it can help sell tickets.

R29: And how proud is Chrishell?

GF: She’s so proud, it’s really cute. She’s got the iPad set up in her closet, just playing my songs over and over on loop to help me get streams, which is very, very cute. So, she’s super supportive.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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