"I wanted him to earn his stripes and possibly create a PR campaign for the Witcher because he doesn’t have a great rap," Klein said of Jaskier. As for the lyrics themselves, Klein came up with the opening line while in her car, the cradle of inspiration. “Often the Witcher doesn’t get paid for his work,” Klein tells Entertainment Weekly (via Rock Paper Shotgun). “Even though they weren’t together in that episode, this song could be a way to tie together these two extremely extraordinary outsiders who have to move among regular people. “Often the Witcher doesn’t get paid for his work. It just spurted out. Have I just gotten that one song from The Witcher stuck in your head again, months after Netflix’s fantasy hit burst onto the scene back in December? On December 20th, 2019, The Witcher series premiered. All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers. An unexpected revelation was that Batey was sick during the recording of the song; however, he managed to power through and delivered several takes. Toss a coin to your Witcher A friend of humanity Submit Corrections. Oh valley of plenty, ... “We wrote the music back in October 2018 and it was one of the first pieces of music we wrote for the show,” Belousova said. Oh valley of plenty, oh valley of plenty, oh-oh-ohhh.”. “Toss a coin to your Witcher! They intended to “perfect” the lyrics, but Ostinelli says “the lyrics Jenny wrote were so perfect for the show and for the episode that the music almost wrote itself.”, And yes, Klein did write the ‘he can’t be bleat’ line, and she’s as surprised as anyone that nobody said no to it. Dustin Bailey
Then the final production was completed here in Los Angeles.”. As an American, Dustin enjoys being asked to write about football and cockney rhyming slang. “So whenever one of our characters are in a tavern, Jaskier is a popular bard so why not have other musicians, other bards, covering his song? Belousova said several versions of the song were written, ranging from medieval to contemporary, until the final version seen in the series was brought to life. “But he was a super trooper. I knew I was going to be doing it but the times when I sat down like, okay, I’ve got to write this, of course it comes when you least expect it. To stay up to date on everything fantasy, science fiction, and WiC, follow our all-encompassing Facebook page and sign up for our exclusive newsletter. Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. And indeed, it works! I got excited about this being a way to draw empathy for the character. “Our intentions for Jaskier was to make [Jaskier] become the kind of Freddie Mercury of the continent, a rock star,” said Sonya Belousova, one of the composer’s who set Klein’s words to music. I mostly joke, but the internet has grabbed hold of the song and will not let go. Ever since The Witcher made its debut on Netflix, one element has stuck with fans, both old and new: the song "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher," sung by the Joey Batey's Jaskier in order to bolster the reputation of Henry Cavill's Geralt. I originally wanted to be a poet and lyrics are a form of poetry that become shaped musically. “I’m a TV writer, a screenwriter, and I didn’t know that I would write lyrics into a script and go to bed a writer and wake up with a song that people were rapidly listening to!” Now let’s see if the team can top itself for season 2, which is due out next year! Because he obviously wears on his patience.