It wouldn’t be a film concerning the LGBTQ highschool expertise with out Charli XCX’s music. The hyper-pop artist included her signature sound on ‘Bottoms’ — the most recent teen comedy starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri.

SPOILER WARNING: This text incorporates minor spoilers relating to songs included within the Bottoms soundtrack. Learn at your personal danger!

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PJ and Josie are about empowering ladies.

The new ones, anyway. Directed by Emma Seligman, Bottoms is, at its core, about two unpopular greatest associates who create a form of “struggle membership” to hook up with cheerleaders.

It’s a highschool comedy and it’s coming of age adjoining, described by one critic as “stroll[ing] a tightrope between sensitivity and madness (with a figuring out little bit of inanity).”

By the lens of PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri), viewers expertise the tribulations of getting a crush and doing no matter it takes to, effectively, get any interplay with that particular person.

Sadly, this results in some gory conditions for this makeshift feminism membership, in addition to magical realizations relating to the significance of friendship — all scored by Charli XCX and Leo Birenberg.

There are additionally sequences that includes already-existing tracks. Standouts embrace an explosive scene to “Complete Eclipse of the Coronary heart” by Bonnie Tyler and a complication for PJ and Josie, appropriately occurring to “Difficult” by Avril Lavigne.

These are positively curated decisions and actually, so good in a first-of-its-kind teen comedy like Bottoms. Music turns into an integral side of most highschool experiences.

Any excessive schooler soundtracked their life to the Scorching 100 and/or songs completely curated for every second. For me, that was an Educational Decathlon hype playlist that includes “All Me” by Drake and “One Day Extra” from the Les Misérables soundtrack. For most individuals, it was… something however that.

This musical connection is mirrored in cinema’s beloved highschool comedies.

Ferris Bueller danced to “Twist and Shout” throughout his time without work. Olive Penderghast belted Natasha Bedingfield’s “Pocketful of Sunshine” within the bathe for Simple A.

In Bottoms, music doesn’t seem with a fanfare within the conventional sense. It articulated large emotions for these characters in a method that seamlessly matched — and concurrently parodied — the tone of early 2000s rom-coms. (Avril Lavigne is the voice of a technology for a purpose!)

“Celebration 4 u” by Charli XCX is perhaps the exception to this aesthetic — however, wow, what a seamless inclusion to a movie for and concerning the LGBTQ neighborhood. The how i’m feeling now tune particulars the lengths somebody will go for his or her crush. The hassle and a focus positioned on a particular particular person.

“All I’m pondering, all I do know is,
That I hope you knock on my door,
Nervous vitality,
My coronary heart price rises larger, larger up.
I want you’d get right here, kiss my face,
As a substitute, you’re someplace distant.
My nervous vitality will keep,
I hope you notice at some point.”

– “Celebration 4 u” by Charli XCX

That craving is a central theme in Bottoms and, whereas the film is foolish and grotesque and raunchy, it additionally articulates the trustworthy emotions of many excessive schoolers, particularly these grappling with their sexuality.

In the event you’re a Charli XCX fan, are allergic to pineapples, or have ever wished to make out with a brilliant sizzling cheerleader, Bottoms is for you. The flick is slated for a restricted theatrical launch on August 25, 2023.

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