Promising Young Woman Soundtrack, Explained
So You're Still Thinking About Promising Young Woman's Soundtrack? This Might Be Why
Watch out! This post contains spoilers.
Watch out! This post contains spoilers.
From the opening credits, I was immediately struck by Charli XCX's lyrics: "I need that bad boy to do me right on a Friday / And I need that good one to wake me up on a Sunday / That one from work can come over on Monday night / I want 'em all." This song plays over a montage of sweaty men dancing in the club, or what Fennell referred to as "slo-mo crotch thrusts of a thousand nightclubs" to Vanity Fair.
The song is ironic, mostly because it paints a bubblegum facade over a menacing situation, just like Cassie is moonlighting as an unconscious woman to teach would-be rapists a serious lesson. The song is also significant because Cassie quite literally wants all the boys — to pay for what one did to her best friend, Nina.