The third season of Showtime’s Yellowjackets kicked off earlier this month, and as common, 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 in the course of the prior season – American various/laborious rockers Stay – had been “by no means cool” (and that she “actually hates” what’s arguably their greatest track, “Lightning Crashes”).

What Ricci Stated

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 selected 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 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’ll view the scene right here.)

Ricci continued: “They needed to mislead me midway by means of filming that scene as a result of I saved making enjoyable of it, within the efficiency, and so they had been like, ‘Properly, 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 possibly can see that phase of their Absolute Radio interview under:

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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 have now to fucking take heed 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, “Properly, dorks all love Stay.” After which we come to shoot that scene and everybody’s like, “I really like this track. It’s so superb.” I used to be like, “What are you speaking about? Do I’ve amnesia?”

Afterward, Lynskey embarrassingly admitted, “I really like that track,” to which Ricci laughed as she proclaimed: “No, you don’t.”

‘I sort of do, although,” Lynskey added, inflicting Ricci to feign crying/laughing.

You possibly can watch that clip under:

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 buddy 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 lady we grew up with and assist her household address the sorrow – which it appears to have achieved – retaining with the theme of the track,” he informed Spin in 1995 [via uDiscover Music].

In our 2023 ballot asking readers to decide on Stay’s finest album, Throwing Copper gained by a landslide (getting practically 62% of the votes). Past that, Throwing Copper earned reward from quite a few publications upon launch – it offered loads as properly – and in 2021, “Lightning Crashes” landed at No. 70 on Billboard’s record of the 100 “Biggest of All Time Mainstream Rock Songs.”

So, do you agree with Ricci about “Lightning Crashes” and/or Stay generally? Or, like Lynskey, are you proud to confess that you just’re keen on them? Tell us!