The situation is made worse when Jules asks Rue, “Do I look hot? Like, hot enough that you’d wanna fuck me, or like, cute?” Blood Orange’s “Champagne Coast” soundtracks the intimate shoot, and Dev Hynes crooning “come into my bedroom” four times in a row as Rue helps Jules change her bra painfully highlights that though Rue may physically be in Jules’ room, she remains an outsider romantically. Naturally, she enlists Rue to take them, oblivious to the fact that she is in love with her. The tenderness of it all shows a sweeter side to Nate, who asks Jules when she started transitioning while getting ready for football practice - though he still tells her that he’s not gay, despite the platform on which they met.Īs Jules and Nate get closer and closer to meeting in-person, Jules plans to entice him by sending some sexy photos. Although the two aren’t interacting in-person, seeing how each reacts to messages as they pop up on-screen evokes real-life butterflies, especially set to a slow-paced R&B love song. When Jules (Hunter Schafer) unknowingly starts texting Nate after meeting him on a gay dating app under his pseudonym ShyGuy118, a split-screen montage of their internet flirtationship set to “Work” brings a feeling of innocence to an otherwise very explicit show. The song gives the audience an opportunity to get a closer look at their family dynamic - and how Rue has the power to both hold them together and tear them apart. Clips flash by of the three giggling together, but they are soon intercut with Rue taking drugs and getting into violent yelling matches with her mother, ending with her waking up in a hospital bed. “Fly Me to the Moon” then becomes the soundtrack for other memories from that summer, both good and bad.
She flashes back to the day she got out of the hospital after overdosing, as she sings the song in the car with her sister Gia (Storm Reid) and mother (Nika King). When Rue is prompted in public speaking class to recall a specific memory that had an impact on her from the past summer, she begrudgingly speaks about listening to Bobby Womack’s 1968 version of “Fly Me to the Moon” with her family. The song’s hypnotic beat and rap verses from Young Thug and Popcaan make it the ultimate sync to both offset and highlight the party’s building chaos. Meanwhile, on-again-off-again couple Nate (Jacob Elordi) and Maddy (Alexa Demie) attempt to make each other jealous by dancing with other people - but Maddy takes it one step further by having sex in the pool with Tyler (Lukas Gage). In a stunning show of camera work, Rue defies gravity and appears to stand on the ceiling, exemplifying the effects of the drugs.
But when Rue snorts drugs off her keychain, the music comes into focus and becomes the throughline of the scene as the camera swings from character to character. As Rue (Zendaya) arrives to McKay’s house, the intro to Jamie xx’s club banger - which samples The Persuasions’ “Good Times” - plays softly in the background. The first time the audience sees the East Highland crew together is at McKay’s (Algee Smith) party at the end of the pilot, where storylines begin to intertwine. “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)” - Jamie xx ft. From Bobby Womack to Billie Eilish, here are the 10 best music moments from “Euphoria” - so far.
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