Yellowjackets: What’s The Song During THAT Shauna And Jeff Scene? – Looper

#1 Crush is a song almost too fitting for “Yellowjackets.” The Garbage song appeared in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film “Romeo + Juliet,” the same year of the plane crash in the show. Depending on when Nationals were, the team could have even been aware of the film. The crooning lyrics made its placement in the Shakespeare adaptation a no-brainer. “I would die for you/ I’ve been dying just to feel you by my side/ To know that you’re mine.” The lyrics evoke feelings of not exactly romantic love, but an unhealthy obsession. Love that inspires violence, presumably from a stalker’s point of view. Luhrmann explained in a behind-the-scenes featurette that he toiled to fit the song into the film because it was so relevant. Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes) are not a picture-perfect couple. Quite the opposite. Two teenagers meeting at a party and then becoming so obsessed with each other that they die is, to say the least, toxic.

This echoes the romance Shauna has in “Yellowjackets.” Her desire for romantic excitement in Season 1 is a trauma response. Once she pursues an affair with Adam, it ends bloody, even though he had no ill intentions toward her — or so it would seem. Looking at his studio, he has an unhealthy fixation with her. And the fact that she and Jeff consummate in the studio of her dead lover is just icing on the disturbing cake.