Loads has modified within the third season of “Euphoria,” which might 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 generally known as Twitter), folks have been making jokes about how they did not really feel just like the music really 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 good friend of the bride. (Truly, @1800clockit was on a roll — in addition they posted a clip of a nonetheless picture of Joni Mitchell with an iPhone ringtone laid over it, writing, “attempting to observe [‘Euphoria’] however the hans zimmer rating genuinely feels like this.”
@ripleyesque might need the most effective tackle this, referencing Mike White’s hit sort-of anthology for HBO:Â “they advised 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 some extent. Labrinth’s music all through the primary two seasons of “Euphoria” helped characterize your entire sequence, however in accordance with the musician himself, he bowed out as a result of he could not take care of the work setting anymore.
Labrinth made a fairly surprising assertion about leaving Euphoria
So far as Labrinth is worried, 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 trustworthy folks,” Labrinth mentioned on an Instagram story posted earlier than the “Euphoria” Season 3 premiere (through 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 fact, 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, similar to it’s, adopted one other Instagram story detailed by Deadline the place Labrinth mentioned he was leaving the music business for good.
Then, on April 21, 2026, Labrinth spoke to GQ about your entire ordeal. Regardless of saying he’d seen a number of the Season 3 episodes of “Euphoria” and appreciated them, Labrinth mentioned he felt as if your entire state of affairs crumbled beneath his ft. “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 mentioned. “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 converse 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 finished, for me,” he concluded. “I believe my involvement was very disposable and it was approached in that means — 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 am going to let him clarify for himself as he did in Rolling Stone, as a result of I am unable to presumably embellish this:
“On ‘Euphoria,’ every character’s storyline is like its personal movie in a means. Basically, I used to be much less all in favour of needle drops and extra all in favour of one thing that guided us by this world…. They’re out of highschool, so the pop roots of it have light away. I see them in these landscapes, coping with good and evil, the alternatives you make, the results, and the liberty of being older. How I imagined it visually, I wished to lean into an old school Hollywood Western rating.”
Levinson additionally mentioned 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 completely 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 nicely 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 mentioned, ‘Would not it’s thrilling to search 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 obtained excited.” The remainder, I assume, is historical past … and “Euphoria” Season 3 is streaming with its new soundtrack now.
