“Toss a coin to your Witcher!
Oh valley of plenty, oh valley of plenty, ohhhh.
Toss a coin to your Witcher, a friend of humanity!”
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Those meticulously choreographed action sequences!
That meant she took on the role of lyricist for the bop, something she had never done before.
she tells EW with a laugh.
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Because he obviously wears on his patience," Klein says.
“That was so exciting.
Like, ‘Dont worry, Im a friend of humanity!’
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“I was not nervous.
I was excited,” she says with another laugh.
“I enjoy writing in any form.
Henry Cavill in ‘The Witcher’.Katalin Vermes/Netflix
I originally wanted to be a poet and lyrics are a form of poetry that become shaped musically.
I knew it was a challenge and I was up for the challenge.
“Often the Witcher doesnt get paid for his work.
She laughs again before continuing, “And I just wrote out the lyrics in like 10 minutes.
It just spurted out.
It was really fun.
Im glad it did!”
Translated from an elvish language, Klein says it means “Valley of Flowers or Valley of Plenty.”
“So I was like, to not even get paid in the Valley of Plenty?
Toss a coin to your Witcher!
I got excited about this being a way to draw empathy for the character.
So thats how I ended up coining ‘Toss a Coin to Your Witcher.'”
And there’s one lyric that Klein is actually shocked made it into the final version of the song.
“I continue to be surprised that people got the joke and dont hate me for it.
Once all the lyrics were written, it was time to put them to music.
But, of course, it doesn’t work that way.
“We were obsessed while making it,” Ostinelli adds.
“We wrote many versions but as soon as we wrote this one it was stuck in our heads.
We were really hoping for them to choose this one and they did.”
“We experimented a lot throughout this process,” she adds.
“Theyre embracing the same fun we had in making it.”
There was just one problem.
“Fun fact: Joey was actually sick during the recording of the song,” Belousova reveals.
“But he was a super trooper.
Then the final production was completed here in Los Angeles.”
Klein says she’ll never forget hearing the final version of the song for the first time.
“Sonya and Giona are complete geniuses,” she says.
This is like Queen.
Sonya and Giona just made it the catchiest song Ive ever heard.
I went to their studio and worked with them, but they knocked that song out of the park.
It was a beautiful collaboration and I love them.”
Once the song was finished and the show debuted, the song’s popularity snowballed.
“It’s been pretty crazy!
It has been astounding and phenomenal,” Klein says.
She still can’t believe how many different covers have been created and released on the internet.
“All these people from all over the world were singing the song,” she says.
That was the very beginning.
I was like, ‘What is happening?’
