THIS ISN’T JUST A SOUNDTRACK. IT’S A DISTURBING BLUEPRINT.
The hit show “Yellowjackets” is using your nostalgia as a weapon. While audiences are hypnotized by the tale of stranded teen soccer players and their present-day survivor selves, the show’s DEEPLY DISTURBING secret weapon is its music. It’s not background noise—it’s a calculated psychological assault.
Forget casual throwbacks. The show’s music supervisor, Nora Felder, CONFIRMS the selections are a brutal form of storytelling. When a character blasts Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” after a violent tryst, it’s scripted to channel pure, unfiltered anxiety. When teen Shauna does the unthinkable, Tori Amos’s “Cornflake Girl” whispers “Things are getting kind of gross” at the EXACT right moment. This is not coincidence. This is manipulation.
The collaboration reveals a chilling intent. For the now-infamous cannibalism scene, Radiohead’s “Climbing Up the Walls” was chosen to represent “the unspeakable monsters that can live in one’s head.” The show’s own trailer features a “deeply unsettling” version of “Just a Girl” by Florence + The Machine, specifically engineered to HORRIFY. This is a direct pipeline into the audience’s psyche.
Why does this matter? Because the artists themselves are complicit. Alanis Morissette says she sees “parallels” with her songwriting: “the sheer intensity, that going for the jugular.” They are actively feeding the darkness, celebrating the show’s portrayal of trauma and chaos as “dynamic” and “complex.”
This is more than a TV show. It’s a cultural experiment, testing how far into horror our fondest memories can be twisted. They are reprogramming the anthems of a generation to soundtrack a nightmare.
The music isn’t just telling the story of survivors. It’s creating new ones from the wreckage of your past.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
