Songs that feel like Parasite (2019)
A sleek, darkly funny descent where polite scheming curdles into resentment, with the rich upstairs and the poor literally below, and the tension tightening until it snaps into violence.
- Common People by Pulp: Wry, simmering class resentment about the rich playing at poverty from those who can't escape it.
- Money by Pink Floyd: Odd-metre bass and cash-register loops capture the film's cynical obsession with wealth.
- Teardrop by Massive Attack: Hypnotic, elegant dread that matches the mansion's cool surface and the creeping unease.
- Paranoid Android by Radiohead: Shifts from detached calm to chaos, just like the film's tonal swerves.
- Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles: Stark string octet and the loneliness of people ignored by society.
- Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes: A thudding, relentless build of menace and defiance.
- Where Is My Mind? by Pixies: Deadpan unraveling and a sense of the floor dropping out beneath you.
- Pass This On by The Knife: Glossy, sly, and quietly unsettling, with disguise and performance at its heart.
- Hurt by Johnny Cash: The raw aftermath of a collapse, with regret and ruin laid bare.
- Rich Girl by Hall & Oates: Breezy, ironic pop about wealth and entitlement, with a sneer under the shine.
