So much has modified within the third season of “Euphoria,” which could be its final outing. That features the music. Whereas Labrinth dealt with all the present’s music for the primary two seasons, Oscar winner Hans Zimmer was the only composer for Season 3, and followers have some emotions about it after the present’s third episode.
Usually, folks … do not prefer it all that a lot! On the social media platform X (previously referred to as Twitter), folks had been making jokes about how they did not really feel just like the music truly matches the present’s content material. As consumer @wishfu1l put it, “what goes with [‘Euphoria’s’] soundtrack this season why are we in a jungle.” @1800clockit was slightly extra blunt, writing that “Hans Zimmer going to hell for this rattling rating” over a clip of Alexa Demie’s Maddy Perez strolling into Nate Jacobs’ (Jacob Elordi) and Cassie Howard’s (Sydney Sweeney) doomed marriage ceremony because the ex-girlfriend of the groom and ex-best pal of the bride. (Truly, @1800clockit was on a roll — they additionally posted a clip of a nonetheless picture of Joni Mitchell with an iPhone ringtone laid over it, writing, “making an attempt to look at [‘Euphoria’] however the hans zimmer rating genuinely seems like this.”
@ripleyesque may need the most effective tackle this, referencing Mike White’s hit sort-of anthology for HBO: “they informed hans zimmer [the soundtrack] was for an HBO present and he assumed it was [‘White Lotus’].” That is actually the funniest take I’ve seen, however folks have a degree. Labrinth’s music all through the primary two seasons of “Euphoria” helped characterize the complete collection, however based on the musician himself, he bowed out as a result of he could not take care of the work surroundings anymore.
Labrinth made a fairly stunning assertion about leaving Euphoria
So far as Labrinth is anxious, he is had a lot to say about his departure from “Euphoria” — together with a social media diatribe.
“Individuals will comfortably lie on this business and nonetheless name themselves sincere folks,” Labrinth stated on an Instagram story posted earlier than the “Euphoria” Season 3 premiere (by way of Deadline). “So no cap, I made a decision to take away no matter music I had in it. I spoke to HBO, so far as I do know, we’re cool. I left as a result of, final reality, after I work for somebody, their imaginative and prescient is paramount to me. However I do not let folks deal with me like sh**.” This whole assertion, resembling it’s, adopted one other Instagram story detailed by Deadline the place Labrinth stated he was leaving the music business for good.
Then, on April 21, 2026, Labrinth spoke to GQ about the complete ordeal. Regardless of saying he’d seen a number of the Season 3 episodes of “Euphoria” and appreciated them, Labrinth stated he felt as if the complete state of affairs crumbled beneath his toes. “I simply felt that the household and the fluidity began to deteriorate, and the artistic camaraderie began to dissipate, and it felt prefer it was taking place for no purpose,” he stated. “It felt like I had offended folks for no purpose. And I am very open with folks. If I really feel like I’ve offended them or there’s an power, I simply communicate to them about it: We could put it to mattress?”
Labrinth went on to say that whereas he tried to respectfully talk with unnamed folks, it did not work. “So for me it was like, Okay, cool. I do know that is completed, for me,” he concluded. “I believe my involvement was very disposable and it was approached in that approach — however not communicated.”
Sam Levinson says a Western rating by Hans Zimmer was a greater match for Season 3 of Euphoria
Unsurprisingly, Sam Levinson, the controversy-ridden creator of Euphoria,” offered a totally take than Labrinth did — and it was fairly self-aggrandizing. I will let him clarify for himself as he did in Rolling Stone, as a result of I can not probably embellish this:
“On ‘Euphoria,’ every character’s storyline is like its personal movie in a approach. On the whole, I used to be much less keen on needle drops and extra keen on one thing that guided us by way of this world…. They’re out of highschool, so the pop roots of it have pale away. I see them in these landscapes, coping with good and evil, the alternatives you make, the implications, and the liberty of being older. How I imagined it visually, I needed to lean into an old school Hollywood Western rating.”
Levinson additionally stated that a few of Zimmer’s particular earlier work impressed him whereas he labored on “Euphoria” Season 3 — together with “True Romance” and “Interstellar,” however for very totally different causes. “There was one thing concerning the Americana of ‘True Romance’ … It felt like driving throughout the nation and traversing time,” Levinson famous. “Then ‘Interstellar’ had this wonderment and an underlying non secular high quality to it that I felt labored properly for this season.”
He additionally, throughout a gathering with Zimmer, famous that he had a poster of “As soon as Upon a Time within the West” on his wall and had an concept. “I stated, ‘Would not or not it’s thrilling to seek out out what your model of As soon as Upon a Time within the West can be? … As a result of I imply it. I desire a Western rating,'” Levinson says. “And he received excited.” The remainder, I suppose, is historical past … and “Euphoria” Season 3 is streaming with its new soundtrack now.
