The third season of Showtime’s Yellowjackets kicked off earlier this month, and as standard, its soundtrack accommodates a number of immediately recognizable songs. Throughout a few new interviews for the present, star Christina Ricci confessed that she thinks a band used through the prior season – American different/onerous rockers Dwell – have been “by no means cool” (and that she “actually hates” what’s arguably their greatest music, “Lightning Crashes”).
What Ricci Mentioned
In a video posted to U.Okay. outlet Absolute Radio’s TikTok on Feb. 14, Ricci (who performs the grownup model of social outcast Misty Quigley) was requested: “Is there a specific music you’d like for a fan edit of you in season three?”
She replied, “So long as it’s not one other Dwell music. I actually hate that music,” referring to the usage of “Lightning Crashes” throughout a very intense scene within the 2023 episode “Burial.” (It’s the seventh episode of Yellowjacket’s second season, and you may view the scene right here.)
Ricci continued: “They needed to misinform me midway by filming that scene as a result of I stored making enjoyable of it, within the efficiency, they usually have been like, ‘Effectively, we’re undecided we’re gonna use this music, so please cease singing it in that voice.’ They usually have been mendacity to me, to get me to cease making enjoyable of it.”
As Ricci answered, co-star Melanie Lynskey (who performs the grownup model of Shauna Sadecki) commented: “Oh yeah, she doesn’t like Dwell.”
You may see that phase of their Absolute Radio interview beneath:
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On Feb. 18, InStyle’s YouTube channel posted an identical interview with Ricci and Lynskey answering fan mail. At one level, Ricci jokes (with a humorously mocking tone):
For fuck’s sake, a few of these songs that now we have to fucking take heed to. I’m sorry, however Dwell was by no means cool, and when it got here out in highschool—once I was in highschool, and that Dwell music—everybody was like, “Effectively, dorks all love Dwell.” After which we come to shoot that scene and everybody’s like, “I like this music. It’s so wonderful.” I used to be like, “What are you speaking about? Do I’ve amnesia?”
Afterward, Lynskey embarrassingly admitted, “I like that music,” to which Ricci laughed as she proclaimed: “No, you don’t.”
‘I form of do, although,” Lynskey added, inflicting Ricci to feign crying/laughing.
You may watch that clip beneath:
Extra about “Lightning Crashes”
“Lightning Crashes” was the third single from Dwell’s second studio LP, 1994’s Throwing Copper (which additionally housed “I Alone” amongst different hit singles). In accordance with frontman Ed Kowalczyk, the band devoted it to Barbara Lewis, a pal of the band who was killed by a drunk driver when she was solely 19 years outdated.
“It was one thing that we hoped would honor the reminiscence of a woman we grew up with and assist her household deal with the sorrow – which it appears to have completed – preserving with the theme of the music,” he informed Spin in 1995 [via uDiscover Music].
In our 2023 ballot asking readers to decide on Dwell’s finest album, Throwing Copper received by a landslide (getting practically 62% of the votes). Past that, Throwing Copper earned reward from quite a few publications upon launch – it bought loads as effectively – and in 2021, “Lightning Crashes” landed at No. 70 on Billboard’s record of the 100 “Best of All Time Mainstream Rock Songs.”
So, do you agree with Ricci about “Lightning Crashes” and/or Dwell basically? Or, like Lynskey, are you proud to confess that you just’re keen on them? Tell us!
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