Fans are still taking issue with the music in season three of Euphoria, even as more episodes air and the show’s sound keeps drawing attention for the wrong reasons. By April 26, after episode three aired, viewers were again saying the score felt different, with one writing, “It’s literally a whole different show atp.”
The reaction comes after Oscar winner Hans Zimmer became the show’s sole composer for season three, following Labrinth’s departure. Zimmer had initially been brought in to work alongside Labrinth, but the new season now carries only his name in the credits for the music.
Labrinth, who helped define Euphoria’s atmosphere when the drama debuted in 2019, announced at the beginning of April that he would not be involved with the new season. On Instagram Story posts, he accused people in the industry of lying while calling themselves honest, said he had decided to remove whatever music he had in the season, and added that he had spoken to HBO and believed they were “cool.” He later told GQ that “the family and the fluidity started to deteriorate, and the creative camaraderie started to dissipate,” and said, “I know this is done, for me.”
That history matters because Labrinth’s genre-bending work became inseparable from the show’s mood from the start. He won an Emmy Award for best original music and lyrics for “All For Us” in season one, and his sound helped carry the series’ emotional swings across the first two seasons. The change is not landing as a debate over Zimmer’s ability; it is landing as whiplash for viewers who associate Euphoria with Labrinth’s earlier tone.
The friction is visible in the audience response as much as in the credits. After episode three aired on April 26, one viewer said they had only just realized they had not been paying attention to the music in past seasons, while another said the music felt “so irrelevant” because it was not Labrinth’s. For now, the story is less about a technical score swap than about how tightly Euphoria tied its identity to one artist’s sound — and how hard it is for viewers to let that go.
