Formula Indie Sessions _ Interview with Green Tea Bitches
Introduction of the project
Green Tea Bitches is a Chinese-Danish dance punk duo that thrives on differences. For them, “bad taste” means freedom. The duo celebrates everything colorful, glittery and awkward. Their sound is energetic, danceable and slightly silly. Just imagine Talking Heads, Charlie XCX and Wet Leg starting a circus together.
Already making a strong impression on the live circuit, including standout appearances at SHARPE Festival in Slovakia and SPOT Festival in Denmark, the duo is building a reputation for explosive shows, a high-energy collision of sound, sweat and colors.
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
Quinn: Growing up in China, I grew up listening to Chinese pop and traditional Chinese folk music. My earliest memory is being a toddler dancing to the ending theme of my parents’ favorite Chinese soap opera.
Emil: My earliest memory connected to music is listening to The Beatles 1 on CD. My dad had it at home, and I remember being completely pulled into that world, even before I really understood what it was.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
Quinn: My music journey started with a violin at age five and a choir at age six. For years, music was about precision and discipline. I learned playing by the book and hitting the right note. But in college, I picked up a guitar and realized that music didn’t have to be a test I had to pass. Writing my own songs gave me a sense of agency I’d never felt before. In my world, there are no mistakes, only choices. I traded ‘perfection’ for personality, and I’ve never looked back.
Emil: My passion for creating music began when I organized a small festival with some friends. Seeing the community that music created, both between the people playing and between a band and the audience, really made something click for me. It was not just about songs anymore. It was about energy, connection and the feeling that a room could change completely because of a few people making noise together. That was when I started wanting to write music myself.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
Green Tea Bitches was created almost by accident. We got booked for a gig before we had even written a song. The organizer just thought the band name was cool. We were supposed to be a three-piece punk band, but a week before the show, our drummer broke a finger. Instead of cancelling, we stayed up all night re-arranging everything for drum machines. That playful electro punk experiment turned out to be our true DNA. The drummer never returned, the machines stayed, and we realized the ‘messy’ duo energy was exactly who we were meant to be.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
It is energetic, colorful and slightly silly. Imagine Talking Heads, Charlie XCX and Wet Leg starting a circus together.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
We have realized that rules are usually just distractions. We decide to go beyond traditional structures. Most of our songs are built on just one or two chords. We lean into bold, almost ‘random’ sounds. If it’s catchy and it feels a little dangerous, we know we’re on the right track.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
Our setup is deceptively simple: guitar, bass, vocals, and Logic Pro. We use a minimalist approach to create maximalist results
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
We love Alice Longyu Gao for her very colorful and weird hyperpop!
But right now I’m really into artists who feel fearless about taste. Dorian Electra, Kitten, 100 gecs and Sophie Powers all do that in different ways. We love music that feels a bit wrong at first, like it has too many ideas, too much personality, too much color, and then suddenly it makes perfect sense. That whole space between indie, hyperpop, punk and pop is really exciting to us. It feels like music made by people who are not trying to be cool in the traditional way, but are building their own weird little worlds.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
Moving from China to the US and eventually settling in Europe, my life has been a series of cultural collisions. Early on, those clashes felt like confusion, but now I see them as my greatest creative asset. I realized that the world would be incredibly boring if we all followed the same script. My artistic vision is about leaning into that frictions and differences, celebrating the clashes and amplifying the imperfections. I’m not here to judge or to fit into a box. I’m here to present difference ideas in a way that’s loud, fun, and accessible to everyone.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
For Green Tea Bitches, “bad taste” means freedom. It is about the liberation that comes from stopping trying to be ‘cool’ or ‘perfect. We celebrate everything shiny, awkward, and over-the-top, transforming what might be considered wrong into something irresistibly right. We consider ourselves as human-shaped sponges. We absorb the friction, the beauty, and the boredom of the world and make it into something bold, fun and slightly chaotic.
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
In order to be a good musician, you have to first and foremost be a good person. Music can be both very personal and very interpersonal. It is very important to be open-minded, kind and honest to ourselves and others.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
We would love to play Lollapalooza and Coachella one day.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
We would like to collaborate with Talking Heads.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music? (Website,Spotify, IG, links)
IG: https://www.instagram.com/greenteabitchesmusic/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/76zFk3tpchC1ppCXtZYjbL
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Greenteabitchesmusic
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?
Since forming in 2025, the momentum from our first two singles and our live shows has been an incredible rush. For the next chapter, our dream is to take this project across borders. We want to keep releasing music that defies expectations and play international stages where we can share our ‘slightly silly’ but high-energy sound. We want to reach audiences who are as tired of ‘perfect’ music as we are. If we can get a crowd in a city we’ve never been to before to embrace our shiny sonic universe, then we’ve succeeded.
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
We hope listeners eventually look past the surface and discover the genuine curiosity that drives us. Beneath the over-the-top attitude and the slightly silly sounds, there is a constant, serious exploration of creativity. We want them to see that having fun doesn’t mean you aren’t thinking. It just means you have chosen to express heaviest ideas through joy rather than gloom.
