Florence Welch is able to be a part of staff Yellowjackets by diving right into a portal again to 1995. The + the Machine singer teased her contribution to the upcoming second season of the Showtime drama a few women’ soccer staff stranded within the wilderness — and the inescapable echo of the horrifying issues that occurred there that haunts their grownup lives — with a brief Instagram teaser on Monday (March 6).
Within the clip, Welch is backstage flipping by a wardrobe that includes the anticipated array of pastel-colored, gauzy attire as a spooky piano theme performs within the background earlier than she will get to a Group Yellowjackets varsity jacket. “So completely satisfied I bought picked for the staff this yr,” reads the caption to the put up.
Most crucially, as Welch will get prepared to hitch the squad, her band’s frantic cowl of No Doubt’s iconic breakthrough ’95 hit, “Only a Lady,” bubbles up. Whereas the unique Gwen Stefani-led observe was a bouncy, ska-tinged pop smash about feminine empowerment, in Welch’s palms the tune takes on a sinister, roiling edge consistent with the present’s midnight black undercurrent.
The teenager footballers are completely satisfied to have her, although, with the Yellowjackets account responding, “We make one hell of a staff.” The selection of the No Doubt ditty from the group’s breakthrough third album, Tragic Kingdom, is becoming given the music decisions within the first season, which leaned into an angsty mid-Nineteen Nineties alt rock playlist because the soundtrack to the more and more determined vibe among the many teenagers ravenous within the woods.
Among the many songs sprinkled all through the primary season had been tracks by Alanis Morissette (“Uninvited”), Smashing Pumpkins (“At the moment”), Gap (“Miss World”), Ultravox (“Vienna”), Montell Jordan (“This Is How We Do It”), Prodigy (“Firestarter”) and Mazzy Star (“Fade Into You”). The present’s packed forged for spherical two contains the grownup variations of the gamers, Christina Ricci, Lynskey, Tawny Cypress and Juliette Lewis, in addition to detective Elijah Wooden, Lauren Ambrose, Simone Kessell, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson and extra.
Season two premieres on Showtime on March 24 on streaming and on demand for subscribers and on linear shops on March 26 at 9 p.m. ET.
Take heed to the preview of Welch’s “Only a Lady” beneath.
