The third season of Showtime’s Yellowjackets kicked off earlier this month, and as regular, its soundtrack incorporates 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/laborious rockers Stay – had been “by no means cool” (and that she “actually hates” what’s arguably their largest track, “Lightning Crashes”).
What Ricci Stated
In a video posted to U.Ok. 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 track you’d like for a fan edit of you in season three?”
She replied, “So long as it’s not one other Stay track. I actually hate that track,” referring to using “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 way of filming that scene as a result of I stored making enjoyable of it, within the efficiency, they usually had been like, ‘Nicely, we’re undecided we’re gonna use this track, so please cease singing it in that voice.’ They usually had 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 Stay.”
You’ll be able to see that section of their Absolute Radio interview beneath:
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On Feb. 18, InStyle’s YouTube channel posted an analogous 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 we’ve got to fucking hearken to. I’m sorry, however Stay was by no means cool, and when it got here out in highschool—after I was in highschool, and that Stay track—everybody was like, “Nicely, dorks all love Stay.” After which we come to shoot that scene and everybody’s like, “I like this track. 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 track,” 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’ll be able to watch that clip beneath:
Extra about “Lightning Crashes”
“Lightning Crashes” was the third single from Stay’s second studio LP, 1994’s Throwing Copper (which additionally housed “I Alone” amongst different hit singles). Based on frontman Ed Kowalczyk, the band devoted it to Barbara Lewis, a good friend 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 achieved – holding with the theme of the track,” he advised Spin in 1995 [via uDiscover Music].
In our 2023 ballot asking readers to decide on Stay’s greatest album, Throwing Copper gained by a landslide (getting almost 62% of the votes). Past that, Throwing Copper earned reward from quite a few publications upon launch – it offered loads as nicely – 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 Stay usually? Or, like Lynskey, are you proud to confess that you simply’re keen on them? Tell us!
Whereas a few of these bands tasted success, it by no means felt like their careers hit the best level they need to have.
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