The 'Fingernails' Trailer Highlights One of the Two All-Time Greatest Soundtrack Songs

By Dustin Rowles | Film | September 26, 2023 |

By Dustin Rowles | Film | September 26, 2023 |

Of all the songs used frequently in soundtracks, two needle drops are terrible every time no matter how often they are used — “Born to Be Wild” by Steppenwolf and “Bad to the Bone” by George Thorogood — and two songs are perfect. Always. The first is “Under Pressure” by David Bowie, and the second is a song called “Only You” that 90 percent of humanity knows. However, only 17 percent of humanity outside of the UK can identify the band: Yazoo. Yazoo was made up of Alison Moyet and a former member of Depeche Mode who would go on to form Erasure. As for Moyet? It’s wild. In 1982, she ran in circles with Boy George and looked liked this:

Now, she could be confused for a member of the Royal family.

I don’t know much about Yazoo (or Yaz, in North America), but I love “Only You.” I never fails to capture a buoyantly emotional rip-your-heart-out affectionate love, but also a deep feeling of melancholy. The song is great in every generation! It’s the song they played in the credits after an agonizing death in The Great earlier this year. It’s the song they play in the train station during the climactic moment in Can’t Hardly Wait. Most famously, it’s the song playing during that moment in the UK’s The Office Christmas special.

It is a perfect song. It’s appeared in dozens of movies and television shows. I will never get tired of it. That’s likely to extend to “Fingernails,” a movie that already has a perfect cast: Jeremy Allen White, Riz Ahmed, Jessie Buckley, and Annie Murphy (plus, Luke Wilson). The trailer gives me Eternal Sunshine vibes, except it’s “Only You” instead of the near-perfect (but now overused) “Mr. Blue Sky.”

Christos Nikou’s Fingernails premieres on Apple TV on November 3rd.