The first song we hear right after the season one recap is, surprisingly, not a 90s track at all. That doesn’t mean it’s any less fitting, however. Sharon Van Etten’s 2019 single “Seventeen” plays over snowy landscapes and in the confined corners of the cabin the ill-fated Yellowjackets are still hiding out in. With lyrics like “I think that you’re all the same/Constantly being led astray” and “I used to be free/I used to be seventeen,” this song is a great indicator of both the impending rule of Lottie (Courtney Eaton and Simone Kessell) and how the plane crash upended the entire team’s lives.
Moving back to actual tunes from the ’90s, “Drown” from Smashing Pumpkins plays as a pivotal revelation between Shauna (Sophie Nélisse and Melanie Lynskey) and the now-deceased Jackie (Ella Purnell) is shown. Given how the song is about missing someone that you’ll never be able to see again, its inclusion is both eerie and very well fitting.
Garbage’s “#1 Crush” also plays during a painful and steamy moment between Shauna and Jeff with lyrics like “Violate all the love that I’m missing/Throw away all the pain that I’m living” serving as the perfect subtext to their intimate exchange. Life is tough for the Sadeckis, y’all. Shortly after this moment, Jeff is seen in his car rocking out to one of the most memeable songs from the year 2000, “Last Resort” by Papa Roach. The moment is so wild, we even wrote an entire post breaking it down.
The ’90s nostalgia ends with the episode’s closing tune, Tori Amos’ classic “Cornflake Girl.” It’s quite possibly the perfect tune to go with the visual of Shauna … well, you know. As far as we’re concerned, all of the Yellowjackets are raisin girls.
