{"id":803374,"date":"2020-01-23T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=941995"},"modified":"2020-01-23T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T19:12:18","slug":"ezra-furman-is-the-troubadour-of-teenage-angst-on-sex-education-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ezra-furman-is-the-troubadour-of-teenage-angst-on-sex-education-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Furman Is the Troubadour of Teenage Angst on \u2018Sex Education\u2019 Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ezra Furman<\/a> wrote Sex Education<\/a><\/em>\u2019s standout track \u201cEvery Feeling\u201d during one of her \u201cdepression days.\u201d The song is featured on The Sex Education Original Soundtrack<\/em><\/a>, out Friday via Bella Union.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first wrote it, I thought it was too simple to even be legitimate. I thought it was half of a song,\u201d she tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI honestly wrote it in three minutes on the way out the door. It was a normal day, but I felt like, \u2018I don\u2019t even know if I can do this day because it\u2019s another depression day.\u2019 But before I went out, I sang that into the tape recorder. Something about it works because it\u2019s exhausted. Like, \u2018I\u2019ve already felt all these intense feelings. I\u2019m tired of it. I wish I could get all this negativity out and never have to deal with it again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The downbeat, wry track is the perfect accompaniment to the second season of the Netflix show, which tells the tale of high school student Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield), the son of a sex therapist (Gillian Anderson), who decides to start giving out sex advice at school \u2014 for a price. Season Two sees Otis struggling with a new relationship \u2014 and his mother\u2019s<\/em> new relationship \u2014 while his friend, Eric (Ncuti Gatwa), ends up caught in a love triangle between a bad boy and a sweet Frenchman. Otis\u2019 friend\/love interest\/business partner Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey) also has her share of challenges: a drug addict mom and her lingering feelings for Otis among them. The show balances on the razor\u2019s edge of tragedy and comedy \u2014 it features both sexual assault and a comically horny production of Romeo and Juliet<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Furman was brought on to the show to create a soundtrack of teenage angst, a feeling that she has yet to shake. \u201cI related to the feeling of having all these worries that you don\u2019t know how to talk about,\u201d she says. \u201cIt feels like there\u2019s no space for you to talk about them. That\u2019s what I write songs about a lot of the time already. A lot of the characters remind me of myself when I was a teenager. A lot of times I still feel that way today in my adult life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that much of a stretch to connect with your teenage self because teenage angst doesn\u2019t go away,\u201d she adds. \u201cYou still feel all those feelings. All the same stuff is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furman\u2019s last album, Twelve Nudes<\/em>, dropped in 2019. It veered more toward the punk lane than her past album, Transangelic Exodus<\/em>, which was replete with sax, keyboards and delightful bombast.<\/p>\n

Furman\u2019s sound is an ideal match for the world of the show: a seemingly era-less small town in England where everyone dresses like it\u2019s the Eighties but acts like it\u2019s 2020. \u201cWhen I make music, I don\u2019t think about what era to emulate, really,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m really into songs that could have been made in any decade. I like when I find some Beyonc\u00e9 song that could have come out in the Fifties. That\u2019s what I try to write.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, as a fan of Eighties and Nineties teen movies, she was able to write for the candy-colored world of Sex Education<\/em> handily: grungy yet glam, brash yet angsty.<\/p>\n

As for which character strikes the biggest chord in Furman? She has to go with Eric, a gay teen with a predilection for glitter, leopard print and neon. \u201cHe has an instinct to try to please everyone, but he has an intense emotional life. He\u2019s a lot,\u201d she says. \u201cHe feels like he\u2019s too much sometimes. He\u2019s negotiating between how much he wants to please people and how much he wants to say, \u2018This me. Take it or leave it.\u2019 I think you can tell that I\u2019m that way, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ezra Furman wrote Sex Education\u2019s standout track \u201cEvery Feeling\u201d during one of her \u201cdepression days.\u201d The song is featured on The Sex Education Original Soundtrack, out Friday via Bella Union. \u201cWhen I first wrote it, I thought it was too simple to even be legitimate. I thought it was half of a song,\u201d she tells Rolling Stone. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 21:51:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}