Every Song In Showtime's Yellowjackets
Warning: Contains spoilers for Yellowjackets season 1.
The songs in Showtime's Yellowjackets help to ground the ambitious show as it works to cross genre lines and combine elements of mystery, supernatural, and thriller into a single TV series. The challenge for the show, which it continually rises to meet, is complicated by Yellowjackets' star-studded cast, its split narrative timelines, and its intricate complex relationships across the years. The musical drive behind so many of the show's key scenes is one of the many factors that helps to cement Yellowjackets as one of 2021's best and most compelling new TV shows.
Yellowjackets season 1 begins a story split across 25 years. In 1996, following a plane crash the Yellowjackets football team are stranded in the wilderness and season 1 follows their struggle to survive up to the first snowfall. Meanwhile, in 2021, a group of the survivors are shown as adults who are working to keep the secrets from their 19 months in the wilderness hidden from public view. As well as exploring a female-led narrative, Yellowjackets also provides some important LGBTQ+ representation.
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The Yellowjackets soundtrack does a lot of heavy lifting to help define the two timelines at work in the show. From Yellowjackets episode 1, a selection of songs chosen from the early and mid-1990s help to tailor the show's nostalgic feel with songs by artists like Salt-N-Pepa and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch playing prominent roles. Here’s every song that appears on the Yellowjackets season 1 soundtrack.
“Today” – The Smashing Pumpkins: This 1993 song plays as the title card appears and the camera pans over New Jersey after the
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