Blake Lively’s latest movie, It Ends With Us, features several popular songs from well-known artists to accompany each significant scene in the story. Based on Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, the Sony Pictures film is helmed by Justin Baldoni.
After the actress’ epic cameo in Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool & Wolverine, she will be starring alongside Baldoni and Brandon Sklenar in a film that captures the horror of domestic abuse and emotional violence.
All Songs Featured In It Ends With Us
Just as the movie is evidently emotional, the accompanying tracks will add more intensity to every important scene depicted in It Ends With Us. Music plays a vital part in distributing the essential atmosphere in every stage of Lily Bloom’s life and for that to happen, the film features several tracks from popular artists.
There are twenty songs found in the movie, starting with Ethel Cain’s Strangers and Rhye’s Hymn as Blake Lively’s Lily and Justin Baldoni’s Ryle show up on the screen. Tow’rs’ Girl in Calico later plays during a flashback scene between Lily and Brandon Sklenar’s Atlas Corrigan.
In the part where Lily’s cleaning up the shop, viewers can almost inaudibly hear Everybody Needs A Friend by Chyvonne Scott on her earbuds. For the montage where Lily and Jenny Slate’s Allysa revamp the shop, Barrett Strong’s Money (That’s What I Want) plays in the background.
Fatboy Slim’s Praise You spins while the film shows Lily and her friends having a fun night out together, while Thom Yorke’s Dawn Chorus is heard during a flashback scene again with Lily and Atlas.
In the intense scene when Lily tells Ryle to stop flirting with her, Dark Rain by DRAMA can be heard from the background. The part where the couple goes to a restaurant to meet Lily’s mother is accompanied by Brittany Howard’s I Don’t.
Fruits of My Labor by Lucinda Williams played during the fight between Atlas and Ryle, while Aldous Harding’s Horizon carried the scene where Lily was lying in bed after being battered. Finally, Ethel Cain’s Everytime played during the second half of the movie’s credits.
Other ultra-popular songs heard in the movie were Post Malone’s White Iverson, Cigarettes After S*x’s Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby, Dashboard Confessional’s Carry This Picture, Birdy’s Skinny Love, Lana Del Rey’s Cherry, Creed’s With Arms Wide Open, Taylor Swift’s My Tears Ricochet, and Lewis Capaldi’s Love The Hell Out Of You.
Blake Lively Curated The Playlist For It Ends With Us
Blake Lively revealed on her Instagram story that she created a behind-the-scenes playlist for It Ends With Us that was used as inspiration while filming it, and some made it to the final cut (via Radio Times):
Some are songs I listened to while filming. Others are inspiration we used while editing or marketing. And others are the stunning songs that made it into the film.
The Gossip Girl star also said that “so much love, time and thought” were put into making the final soundtrack for the movie.
It Ends With Us is now showing in theaters.
