The Boys season 4 masterfully complements some of its best moments with appealing tunes, making it difficult not to be intrigued about the tracks’ identities and the artists who created them.
The Boys, created by Eric Kripke, is one of Amazon Prime Video’s most valuable IPs, having not only received great critical praise with each season but also been commercially viable for the streaming service. The Boys season 4, like its predecessors, has a “Fresh” Rotten Tomatoes rating, cementing its position as one of the best satirical depictions of the superhero genre.
The first episodes of The Boys season 4 contain some of the most frightening and đâŻđually explicit sequences in the franchise. Even from a narrative standpoint, the series sđđžđđfully elevates the stakes for its protagonists by immersing them in the murky seas of superpower politics and action. The use of perfectly placed unique and familiar musical compositions adds to the immersive and gripping quality of its darkly comedic superhero tale.
The Boys Season 4 Episode 1 Songs
“Department of Dirty Tricks”
“GoÔ Save The Queen” by Sex Pistols: The Boys season 4 episode 1 opens with Sex Pistols’ “God Save The Queen” as Victoria Neuman steps up to a stage to give a speech.
“Walkinâ On The Sun” by Smash Mouth: This track can be heard in The Boys season 4’s opening episode when Kimiko and Frenchie sneak into Victoria Neuman’s room to replace her drops. To their dismay, their visit is cut short when Neuman’s daughter, Zoe, who is a supe after taking Compound in season 3, enters the room and attacks them.
The Boys Season 4 Episode 2 Songs
“Life Among the Species”
“Hypnotize” by The Notorious B.I.G.: In The Boys season 4 episode 2’s opening moments, Adam Bourke films a movie that stars A-Train and seems hilariously similar to the 2009 sports drama The Blind Side. As the show features a series of scenes that walk through the neighborhood where the movie is being filmed, this popular track plays in the background.
“Burning Down the House” by Talking Heads:Â This starts playing in season 4’s episode 2 when Billy Butcher and the Boys enter the Truthcon, where people who believe in the wildest conspiracies come together.
“Love America” by Fortress II: Fortress II’s “Love America” plays in The Boys season 4’s episode 2, when Splinter’s multiple variants set up the stage at Truthcon right before Firecracker shows up to discuss some bizarre conspiracies.
“Hava Nagila” by The Barry Sisters:Â A showdown ensues between Splinter’s variants and the Boys in the episode’s final moments. In an attempt to escape Splinter’s many variants, Frenchie and MM break into a room, where they find some people celebrating a bat mitzvah. This is when The Barry Sisters’ “Hava Nagila” plays in the background.
The Boys Season 4 Episode 3 Songs
“We’ll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here”
“America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward:Â As Homelander anxiously watches a crowd supporting Starlight in his own rally, a choir on stage sings this song before he gives a speech and introduces the new members of the Seven to the world.
“I Wanna Rock” by Twisted Sister:Â When The Deep, A-Train, and Black Noir show up on the stage to accompany Homelander, this track loudly blares through the speakers. While Homelander’s supporters cheer them on, Starlight’s followers boo them.
“Takinâ Care Of Business” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive:Â Moments later, as this Bachman-Turner Overdrive song plays in the background, Homelander summons Firecracker and Sister Sage on the stage, introducing them as the new members of the Seven.
“Sunshine, Lollipops anÔ Rainbows” by Lesley Gore:Â After convincing Ryan to visit him, Butcher brings home some supplies and prepares him a batch of cookies Rebecca used to make. The Lesley Gore song can be heard in the background as Butcher bakes the cookies.
“La Nuit Le Jour” by Les Terribles: Much later in The Boys season 4’s episode 3, Frenchie gets intoxicated before he and Kimiko duke it out with a group of armed men in a warehouse. To Kimiko’s dismay, she has to face the men all by herself because Frenchie becomes too impaired to help her. While Frenchie enjoys his high and Kimiko single-handedly takes down the men, this Les Terribles track plays in the background.
“Letâs Put The Christ Back in Christmas” by Shoshana Bean, Andrew Rannells, James Monroe Iglhart & Christopher Lennertz: The Boys season 4 puts this awful song in a viewer’s head during the scenes where a bunch of supe body doubles practice an ice-skating musical.