Lili Trifilio is the lead singer and songwriting of the band Beach Bunny. “I’m honestly so nervous,” Lili said in an interview a day before Beach Bunny would headline a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York.
She continued, “Over the pandemic, Beach Bunny has grown like 200 percent,” she said. “And I don’t know what to expect.”
Lili Trifilio has short brown hair, which she likes to dye a variety of different colors such as magenta, lilac, and rust. But on the day of the concert, it was blonde. Lili is known for her upbeat and positive attitude onstage. At a recent Beach Bunny show, she gave a recommendation for a local vegan restaurant, motivated the audience to get their Covid shots, and led the entire crowd to sing happy birthday for someone.
Most of the popularity and growth of this band comes from the song “Cloud 9.” It’s a guitar-based love song. Many people (more than 360,000) on Tik Tok and other social media platforms have used her song as the audio for their videos. (“But when he loves me, I feel like I’m floating/When he calls me pretty, I feel like somebody”).
Several fans have asked Lili to make an acoustic version of this song so they could use it as their wedding song. Trifilio finds this ironic as she wrote this song in the last days of a breaking relationship.
Teagan Quinn of the indie-pop duo Teagan and Sara states, “The lyrics are so smart, and melodically I find all their songs to be really creative.” She and her twin sister were fans before “Cloud 9” came out, but when it did it gave them an opportunity to collaborate with Trifilio and create a version of the song that was requested by some fans which includes she and they pronouns.
Trifilio was raised in Chicago, and she started taking guitar lessons with her friend in fifth grade. “We did not have the attention spans for it,” she said with a laugh at an interview in her childhood bedroom. “But it was fun. That’s where I learned by basic skills. We were just like obnoxious kids, and so after a couple of years I quit because I had other things to do as a thirteen-year-old.”
In her late teens, she started learning guitar covers and participating in neighborhood jam sessions. When she was 18, Trifilio decided that she would write her own song, called “6 Weeks,” which was a dramatic breakup song. She showed it to her friend, and said, “I was like, I made this song, and I’m so embarrassed. Can you listen? I think I’m going to delete it.” Her guitar lesson friend said, “If you don’t put this out, I will stop being your friend.”
That really gave Trifilio a much-needed boost of confidence. When she went to college, she continued writing hooky pop songs and eventually started playing with a group of guys. And that was the official beginning of Beach Bunny.
She continued, “Over the pandemic, Beach Bunny has grown like 200 percent,” she said. “And I don’t know what to expect.”
Lili Trifilio has short brown hair, which she likes to dye a variety of different colors such as magenta, lilac, and rust. But on the day of the concert, it was blonde. Lili is known for her upbeat and positive attitude onstage. At a recent Beach Bunny show, she gave a recommendation for a local vegan restaurant, motivated the audience to get their Covid shots, and led the entire crowd to sing happy birthday for someone.
Most of the popularity and growth of this band comes from the song “Cloud 9.” It’s a guitar-based love song. Many people (more than 360,000) on Tik Tok and other social media platforms have used her song as the audio for their videos. (“But when he loves me, I feel like I’m floating/When he calls me pretty, I feel like somebody”).
Several fans have asked Lili to make an acoustic version of this song so they could use it as their wedding song. Trifilio finds this ironic as she wrote this song in the last days of a breaking relationship.
Teagan Quinn of the indie-pop duo Teagan and Sara states, “The lyrics are so smart, and melodically I find all their songs to be really creative.” She and her twin sister were fans before “Cloud 9” came out, but when it did it gave them an opportunity to collaborate with Trifilio and create a version of the song that was requested by some fans which includes she and they pronouns.
Trifilio was raised in Chicago, and she started taking guitar lessons with her friend in fifth grade. “We did not have the attention spans for it,” she said with a laugh at an interview in her childhood bedroom. “But it was fun. That’s where I learned by basic skills. We were just like obnoxious kids, and so after a couple of years I quit because I had other things to do as a thirteen-year-old.”
In her late teens, she started learning guitar covers and participating in neighborhood jam sessions. When she was 18, Trifilio decided that she would write her own song, called “6 Weeks,” which was a dramatic breakup song. She showed it to her friend, and said, “I was like, I made this song, and I’m so embarrassed. Can you listen? I think I’m going to delete it.” Her guitar lesson friend said, “If you don’t put this out, I will stop being your friend.”
That really gave Trifilio a much-needed boost of confidence. When she went to college, she continued writing hooky pop songs and eventually started playing with a group of guys. And that was the official beginning of Beach Bunny.
