{"id":83357,"date":"2025-08-08T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=83357"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:11:22","slug":"crafting-new-realms-an-interview-with-stoizy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2025\/08\/08\/crafting-new-realms-an-interview-with-stoizy\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting New Realms: An Interview with STOiZY"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Content Director Cameron Castaldi<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, I had the chance to chat with the England-based artist, producer, and self-proclaimed sorcerer, STOiZY<\/strong>. After repeatedly going viral on social media for his hypnotic vocals, wavy dance moves, and off-kilter visuals, his music has become a staple in my playlists and a frequent “vocal stim” within my friend groups (our current favorite being the chorus to “GAINING PURITY”, released earlier this summer).\u00a0 His artistic vision is unlike anything I’ve seen or heard before, so of course, I had to interview him and learn more about his fascinating musical perspectives. Below is our full conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>So, for our audiences who may not know you, could you tell us a little bit about yourself, who you are, and what you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Of course, no worries. My name is STOiZY. I’m an experimentalist, an artist, whatever the f*** you want me to be. I create music. Well, I call it spells because it’s just a rare frequency that connects with the ones who actually resonate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>What\u2019s the song that really made you blow up on the internet? How did this all begin?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Well, I really haven\u2019t had a big blow-up season, like stream-wise, but my name is quite known. Like, if you ask people in the underground [music scene], I\u2019m quite known by bigger people, like Kreayshawn and Lil Darkie, they all follow me. They all respect the vision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The song that I first got attention on, that got me a little audience in the beginning, was the song \u201cON STEPPING LIGHTLY\u201d. In the video, I did a thing that was unintentional, I grabbed my balls in it as a joke, and everyone was freaking out. And then it gave me attention, but I didn\u2019t do it for attention, I just did it unintentionally as a joke because I was feeling myself in the video.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And then, like two months later, I dropped the music video to \u201cENDLESS DIGITAL FOOTPRINT\u201d because those two songs were on the same album, <\/span>Committed To the Vision of Bizarreness<\/span><\/i>. Then two months later, that song blew up [on TikTok]. I got 800,000 views\u2026 Maybe December time last year, I started posting on Instagram Reels more, optimizing that platform, and it re-blew up again\u2026 So yeah, it\u2019s probably that song. That\u2019s like the iconic one, the classic vocal stim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>Can you tell me about your musical style in general? I think people are really entranced by\u2014I don\u2019t even know how to describe it\u2014but how you pull your bottom lip back when you sing. I’ve never seen anyone else do that. How did you come up with that?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Well, thank you very much for noticing that. That\u2019s fluctuating the vocal cords to get a different sound. If you first listen to me, it\u2019s interesting, but you probably can\u2019t hear what I\u2019m saying unless you see the lyrics. Then once you know the lyrics, it\u2019s clear as day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m inspired by an artist called Bexey Swan, and in 2016, he had the same sort of style that I\u2019m doing. I took the foundation of what he does with bending words and flows and rhymes, but then I brought it into my own world. Like Michael Jackson said, he\u2019s just studied the greats and became greater. So I studied something that inspires me, because there\u2019s something hypnotizing about his flows and the way he says words. So, I\u2019ve just made it alienated and brought a new style to it, a positivity and wizardry and magic and alien, as people know it as.<\/span><\/p>\n

I like Michael Jackson and Lil B The BaseGod, just due to his experimental ways and not giving a f***. And Michael Jackson would do the dance moves and high notes that I love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>You said [on Instagram] that you’re producing something right now. Is it a new EP you\u2019re working on? Can you tell us a little bit about that?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Yeah, I\u2019ve got loads of unreleased projects, one that\u2019s pretty much done, it literally has one song to go. It\u2019s an industrial album, a sequel to my latest album I dropped last year, called <\/span>CRAFTING REALMZ FOR BEINGZ LIKE YOU & I<\/span><\/i>, which is an EDM, electronic, industrial album with a hint of alien. I\u2019m sequelizing it into a new world, but it\u2019s going darker, like monsters and more robotic, but that\u2019s dropping in December.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m making an EP now, it\u2019s come to mind within the past few days, called <\/span>STOiBOY. <\/span><\/i>It\u2019s just swag and high voices, and speaking about more real stuff, being vulnerable, and tapping into that side of myself. That\u2019s what I\u2019m crafting right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>How did you come up with the alien persona? Where did that come from?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>The first ever song where I introduced alienness was \u201cBLINK UPON EYE\u201d, which was in 2022, a year into my music career. I don\u2019t know, I\u2019ve always been interested in aliens, and it just came about because people always referred to me as an alien, like when I rapped and flowed. At the time, I would post TikToks with my top off, and I\u2019m skinny, so I have an alien structure, I call myself the \u201calien structure physique\u201d. Ever since then, I\u2019ve kept the alien and just advanced it. Then I branched out into wizardry, sorcery, the chameleon, whatever it may be. I call myself the \u201csound-shifting chameleon\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>So, if you could live on any other planet besides Earth, what planet would you live on?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Would it be a planet that already exists, or would it be a planet I can make up within my own mind?<\/span><\/p>\n

Cameron: <\/b>You can make it if you want!<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Well, I\u2019m crafting my own world, just a planet that we all can resonate on, a frequency world of love. Like I said, the album I made a few months ago was <\/span>CRAFTING REALMZ FOR BEINGZ LIKE YOU & I<\/span><\/i>. So however you feel when listening to my music, that\u2019s you entering my world with your own perception. So when you listen to me, you might feel freer. So that\u2019s your version of my world, a world of limitlessness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cameron: <\/b>Inviting your listeners to create their own world in a way.<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Yeah, that\u2019s it. That\u2019s it. But probably Saturn though. I like Saturn. It has the little CD around it, spinning music so we can all dance. I have a cover art for my album my girlfriend did called <\/span>ALIEN BABESTAR! <\/span><\/i>and in the background, there\u2019s little aliens walking on the spin thing like a little vinyl.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>What\u2019s it been like with your girlfriend kind of experiencing this musical journey with you? I know a lot of your music is about her and building that relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Well, I\u2019ve known my girlfriend for four years, but we\u2019ve only been dating for almost two. It’ll be two years in November. When I started making music in 2021, I didn\u2019t know her, but then I joined a Discord called Planet Switchers, which was for my favorite artist BEXEY. He had a Discord of people who resonated with his sounds, and we became friends through there. She would listen to my music when I first started. Ever since then, I\u2019ve just evolved, we kind of grew together. I never thought I\u2019d even go out with her, it just happened. She\u2019s been supporting me ever since, so she\u2019s kind of evolved with my energy and my path. Embracing myself, it gives her the ability to express and embrace herself. She\u2019s been a harmonizer to my music and my career. And I didn\u2019t make love songs before that because it has to be real. So her coming into my life, she\u2019s leveled up my writing and I\u2019ve been able to express parts of myself I never knew I had. It\u2019s been wonderful.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>How has promoting your music online impacted your career?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Well in 2021, I didn\u2019t really promote my music. I only started doing it in June 2022 when I started taking this more seriously. I just posted on Instagram, but I wouldn\u2019t do professional stuff. But then I took it into my own hands and started showing up more, showing my personality, and started gaining a little following. It\u2019s only kind of kicked off in the last year. I think it\u2019s wonderful, I\u2019m just showing up as I am, so if people want to resonate, they can resonate with that. I know people get distracted by trends and memes and all that s*** but if I continue to focus on what I want to represent in this world, then people can join along. I put my attention on evolving and putting my message out, so therefore I don\u2019t really get distracted by bulls***. I appreciate the internet wonderfully well, because if it didn\u2019t exist I wouldn\u2019t find people like you, you wouldn\u2019t find me, and I wouldn\u2019t find my [favorite] artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>You have a headline show coming up in Manchester. Have you done a lot of live shows before, or is this a kind of new era?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>It\u2019s new, it\u2019s a new era for me. I\u2019ve performed three or four times, but I\u2019ve adapted to it quite well. I\u2019m starting to understand my own energy within that realm, so I\u2019m quite a natural performer, but it took me a little while. It\u2019s a bit awkward to find out how I move and enunciate onstage, but in the past two performances, I\u2019ve really found myself. I\u2019ve put a few performances on my YouTube, one in Birmingham and one in Manchester, and it\u2019s proper fun because people move to my music and it\u2019s nice to see that. It feels amazing, especially when you have like 100 people watching you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>How do you want people to interact with your music? On the ideal dance floor, how are people moving?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Just freely expressing themselves in a bizarre manner. I\u2019m not really into moshpits, I just let people be as they are because I can\u2019t control them, they just have to resonate in their own way. I\u2019m like Michael Jackson where he just does his thing and if you resonate, it will resonate. Whereas Freddie Mercury, he would hype the crowd up, and that\u2019s wonderful, that\u2019s what he\u2019s good at. But I just do what I need to do and if they want to move, they can move. Usually they just do funny dance moves and, like the wiggly arms and stuff like that. Some robots as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cameron: <\/b>Okay, final question. Where do you see your music career going in five, ten years from now?<\/span><\/p>\n

STOiZY: <\/b>Just continuing to do what I do now. Evolution, that\u2019s all I care about. Making sure I\u2019m showing up for myself and representing the message that I\u2019m portraying. People say \u201cfake it ’til you make it\u201d, but I\u2019m gonna be it ’til I see it. I can see myself doing shows, headlining festivals. Next level, I would be like Michael Jackson. That\u2019s how I see it in my own realm. And if that never happens, then I\u2019ll continue putting up with what the f*** I am, so that\u2019s never gonna be a fail to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A huge thank you to STOiZY for the lovely conversation! Click here<\/em><\/a> to check out his music and socials!<\/span><\/p>\n

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