{"id":374857,"date":"2026-04-11T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:08:08","slug":"labrinth-explains-why-his-music-isnt-part-of-euphoria-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374857\/","title":{"rendered":"Labrinth Explains Why His Music Isn&#8217;t Part of &#8216;Euphoria&#8217; Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAhead of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/euphoria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Euphoria<\/a>\u201d Season 3 premiere on Sunday and his Coachella performance this weekend, composer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/labrinth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Labrinth<\/a>\u00a0spoke out about the show and his music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a new Instagram story, he wrote, \u201cPeople will comfortably lie in this industry and still call themselves honest people. So no cap, I decided to remove whatever music I had in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe went on to say, \u201cI spoke to HBO, as far as I know, we are cool. I left because, last truth, when I work for someone, their vision is paramount to me, but I don\u2019t let people treat me like shit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe comment seems to come after Sam Levinson told Rolling Stone, \u201cHe\u2019s an incredible collaborator and someone who really built the foundation of the sound of\u00a0\u2018Euphoria.&#8217;\u201d With the show jumping forward five years, Levinson added, the characters were out of high school, so the \u201cpop roots of it have faded away.\u201d He said, \u201cIn general, I was less interested in needle drops and more interested in something that guided us through this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tComposer Hans Zimmer is leading the score with full composer credits when the new season airs on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLast month, Labrinth, who had composed the music for \u201cEuphoria\u201d seasons 1 and 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/global\/labrinth-f-euphoria-done-with-this-industry-1236686764\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/global\/labrinth-f-euphoria-done-with-this-industry-1236686764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">appeared to distance himself from the show when he wrote<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m done with this industry. Fuck Columbia. Double fuck \u2018Euphoria.\u2019 I\u2019m out. Thank you and good night x.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLabrinth has become best known for his contributions to the \u201cEuphoria\u201d score and soundtrack, with songs like \u201cAll for Us,\u201d \u201cFormula,\u201d \u201cMount Everest\u201d and \u201cNever Felt So Alone\u201d \u2014 which features vocals from Billie Eilish and was nominated for a Grammy \u2014 racking up millions of streams.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-11-at-06.59.34.png\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1000\" width=\"616\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the \u201cEuphoria\u201d Season 3 premiere on Sunday and his Coachella performance this weekend, composer\u00a0Labrinth\u00a0spoke out about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,64610,195584,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-374857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-euphoria","11":"tag-labrinth","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}