“A Palé” by ROSALÍA: When everyone is seated, the song begins playing at the fashion show, with the model showing off the design. “Spider” by Junglepussy: Not only are Monet and Luna fed up with Zoya, but when she arrives at the event, she begins planning to ruin her public image. “Just Checking In” by Kllo: As Max, Aki and Audrey prepare for Julian’s fashion show, she’s intrigued to see the men change in front of each other. “Rascal” by Tinashe: Julian began planning to get rewards for Gossip Girl by playing with Gossip Girl and Zoya. Ray Ami’s “RUNAWAY”: After Audrey finds Aki, they begin to become sexually intimate before the gossip girls interrupt their moments.īillie Eilish’s “There for I Am”: The song plays the next morning when Zoya awakens to a new gossip girl explosion about her and Obie. “Steam” by Exmiranda: Things got a little hot when Audrey and Max were looking for Aki. “Drinks” by Cyn: Julian’s friends are wondering why she wants to include Zoya so badly while they hang out in the club. (I also have a slight theory that Ocean is actually a massive fan of The O.C., that it inspired Channel Orange, and since the show had ended by the time the album came out, he chose to do the next best thing: give his music to Gossip Girl, which was created by O.C. creator, Josh Schwartz. But that's another spiral for another time.Ariana Grande’s “Position”: The song will start playing Kristen Bell begins to speak As a new gossip girl. If that's the case, peak Gossip Girl (Season 1 through mid-Season 3), when it perfectly combined soapy teen drama with mild class satire, would have definitely been up Ocean's alley. Film and television references constantly pepper Ocean's tracks and he's clearly a fan of films about rich kids ( Less Than Zero) and how wealth effects our relationships ( Pretty Woman, The Royal Tenenbaums). The only reasonable explanation has to be that Ocean himself is a Gossip Girl fan, right!? I don't think it's too great of a stretch to assume so. (This was something that Ponsdomenech couldn't speak to-he never met Ocean.) The show was bad, especially by its last season, so it's a little baffling why Ocean would choose Gossip Girl to be the one that got to use his music. However, the real question here is what was in it for Ocean (other than $$), especially if he's so selective with what his music is used for. Ocean talks about the rich “searching for real love” and something beyond the emptiness of their materialism. I believe the producers chose the album because it speaks to the humanity of the rich while also satirizing that world. There’s something interesting about hearing an R&B vibe behind these very rich white folk. Finally, "Thinkin Bout You" ends the episode while Serena and Dan, the show's most annoying couple, eat pie and drink milkshakes in formal wear. "Pyramids" plays during the initial cotillion walk, the crux of the drama of the episode, which frankly is rather boring-it's just the lone teen character premering a semi-slutty dress at her cotillion to get her idiot rich dad to not marry Serena.
In a perfect bookend, "Sweet Life" opens an actual cotillion everyone in the GG world is attending.
But in the opening of "Monstrous Ball," the strains of "Super Rich Kids" hit during a montage of women dancing in ball gowns at their cotillions-more or less the welcoming ceremony for any wealthy community-and instantly the pairing feels perfect. "Lost" soundtracks a meddling phone call about breaking up Serena's (Blake Lively) upcoming, possible engagement to a rich dad-type (typical GG fare).
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They felt that it commented on the zeitgeist of the show's world.Īt first it seems like a bizarre match-the last season of a fallen television show based on a YA series about a group of New York living rich kids on The CW and R&B's darling. Eduardo Ponsdomenech, a music editor for the show, told me that executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas came up with the idea after hearing Ocean's album. Okay, "on" is an exaggeration, but four months after Ocean dropped Channel Orange in July 2012, the album soundtracked the entire fifth episode of Gossip Girl's final season, "Monstrous Ball." It was the first time that his music had been used on television (and according to our internet sleuthing, the only time) and the first time a sole artist soundtracked an episode of Gossip Girl. With Frank Ocean's highly anticipated album, Boys Don't Cry, hopefully upon us soon (FRANK WHERE ARE YOU), it's time to revisit the singer's most important moment: when he was on Gossip Girl.
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