Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Promising Young Woman soundtrack

This is one where the music is integral to the film, and so the soundtrack unsurprisingly stands up.

Most memorable are Charli XCX's still terrific "Boys" (in lightly remixed form), Donna Missal's brooding "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby" and "Angel of the Morning" (the Juice Newton version - one of those songs that's somehow endlessly present in popular culture).

Also, surprisingly, the Paris Hilton song - "Stars Are Blind" - is really quite good, in a throwaway kind of way. Listening to it of course brought to mind that scene where they dance to it in the pharmacy, which plays at the time as a classic date-cute moment with an extra layer from his implied sensitivity based on his knowledge of such an out and out pop song's lyrics and willingness to sing along to them, and later with much darker undertones flowing from Hilton's status in our culture, ie becoming famous due to a leaked sex tape.