Twin Blade: The duo part of the DIY Pop Revolution

Margot and Stella (Twin blade) by sixtine cail

Childhood best friends, Margot and Stella express themselves through their duo electronic project Twin Blade. Originally inspired by the popstars they idolized growing up and movies that explore themes of girlhood (sofia coppola movies to be exact), the two began making music together in 2017. Much like other pop sensations on the rise (Pink Pantheress, Slayyyter, etc), Twin Blade write and produce all of their own songs, expressing themselves authentically with their alt pop-inspired sound and sentimental lyrics. On September 13, 2025, they were given the opportunity to open for George Clanton at Le Petit Bain. I was able to talk with them backstage after their show about pop music, their writing process, and more. 

The choice to work together was obvious, as Margot and Stella have been best friends since childhood. While their backgrounds are different, Stella being Irish and Margot being from Belgium, the two were raised in France.  Because of their similar upbringings, their “references are the same, so whenever Margot tells me, watch this movie or listen to this, it's at the top of my list…

“…I think just growing up together really attached at the hip, we were just always everyday together. It’s like sharing one big brain,”

Stella said. 

On what they're inspired by, Margot said their main source of inspiration is “mostly movies. Like sophia coppola and agnes varda… and music really. We kind of had a rock phase when we were teenagers, and then we went back to pop music.” Musically, both are heavily inspired by “the big classics like Gaga, now Addison Rae, Marina [and the Diamonds]. We’re huge Lana [Del Rey] fans”

The two actually got their start making music in a band with another member making rock music. Naturally, their transition from rock to alt-pop music brought lots of changes to their writing process. Margot explained that when in a rock band their songwriting was very “straightforward”, writing one part at a time whereas now they work on songs more holistically. 

However, the major change in their writing was less practical and more theoretical. “we really put the effort into thinking of the song as a whole story, so it takes more time, but i think it’s more honest in the end because there’s not the rush of I wrote a new song let’s play it tomorrow, it's more like okay so I've had this idea of the song, I’ve wrote some lyrics or I just have this melody and then we brainstorm together and try to write it,” Margot explained. Another way that things have changed for them is how much they identify with their own songs. Margot revealed that they “used to have songs that we wouldn’t even really listen to. Now I feel it’s important to be able to say oh, I would love to listen to this song if it wasn’t mine. I think it's a big change.”

Since starting Twin Blade, Margot and Stella have also gone through changes within the project. At first, the two wanted to make “radio pop”. Stella reflected on the early days of Twin Blade,

“We used to do this thing where we would write a song and if it wasn’t stuck in our heads the next day we’d just throw the whole song away. We’d be like actually, this one’s really bad. But it wasn’t bad at all. It just wasn’t a Britney Spears song.” 

Someone that Twin Blade really admires in today’s music industry is Addison Rae. “for someone that could have been making songs with Benny Blanco or some American dude that’s made like top of the charts fifty-thousand times, her choice of producing songs in Sweden with two girls that have been affiliated with some projects but aren't huge producers, and her being like I love Swedish pop music, first of all, is awesome. It's a cool girl thing, you know?” Stella said of their admiration for the pop sensation. 

Although they are very inspired by pop music icons that have many producers and songwriters, the two have a “very DIY approach to everything” Stella revealed. “We ask our friends that produce songs we like to come to the studio and we’ll have sessions where they help clean up the songs and stuff like that. Apart from that, basically every photo we’ve taken whether it’s with Sixtine or another photographer, the whole concept is something we’ve thought about. It's really thought out.”

Something that takes pop music, or music of any genre for that matter, to the next level is a clear and thought out concept behind any release. It’s what makes a musician’s work memorable and something that sticks out in people’s minds. Lana Del Rey’s americana aesthetic for Born To Die, Lady Gaga’s persona of a pop star consumed with greed and overtaken by fame for iconic The Fame album, the list goes on. This is something that Twin Blade are working towards and mastering. 

Despite their own approach to pop music, Stella said “I don’t think that writing your own songs makes you a better artist. Sometimes. It depends. Britney Spears, I don’t think, has ever written a song by herself. Her songs are awesome. You know? And like her genre bending is the reason pop music is so interesting now. And that's all people that were sitting in a room with her and were like we’re gonna go really experimental on this single. Now we’re out here making music that’s super dark but still like pop. The girls have been putting in the work!”

Twin Blade is a constantly growing and evolving pop duo project that is really starting to take off. Margot and Stella work excellently together. Their themes are well developed and continue to become more and more meaningful to them and to their listeners. It’s always amazing to hear of artists that have learned to deeply resonate with the music they write and learn to better express themselves in  a way that audiences can identify with as well. 

So much about Twin Blade’s project speaks on how today’s pop music is changing. We’re starting to value authenticity and independence in our pop artists more than ever before. This shift could be a response to the 90s and early 2000s when artists like Britney Spears were imprisoned by the expectations of the public eye that were put onto them. There’s more than one way to be a pop star and Twin Blade are proving it with their unique style both sonically, visually, and conceptually.