16 reasons why the “I Got the Music” studio scene is my favorite underrated Jukebox scene
1. Luke memorized what Julie said and quotes it as if it’s fact. He respects her musical knowledge, and immediately concedes that his understanding of the industry is out-of-date, and that she knows more than him. I love it.
But also! The fact that he looks at her and does that nod. He’s being a lil shit, but he’s also paying homage to her, he’s making it an inside joke, he wants her approval I am screaming already and we’re on point one
2. I’m not going to include the smiles because we all have them memorized and I’m limited on gifs, but here‘s this beautiful set if you want some joy for your day. I just adore how soft and “early stages of crush” it is. Their microexpressions here are masterful.
3. Julie directs the “Should we try this again?” specifically at Luke, and he answers her directly, rather than addressing the whole band. They’ve already become the parents of the band and I love it.
4. Julie wants to hear the Sunset Curve songs immediately, and Luke wants to show them to her immediately because he is puppy and he craves her musical approval and they’re in love and they’re going to spend the rest of their lives together
5. Again, in the vein of “they’ve become the parents of the band,” the way Luke quirks his head in Julie’s direction has me soft. @sanssssastark has pointed out that it’s got a lot of “Can you believe our son?” energy and I’m very here for their dynamic.
6. He dog-eared the ones that he thinks she would slay??? To quote @xxprettylittletimebombxx, picture “Luke spending his sleepless nights going through each and every song, thinking about how to transpose them for Julie’s voice and how they can add in piano solos here and there.” Also, you should definitely picture Alex and Reggie watching him doing this like “… so do we tell him that he’s gone on this girl yet, or are we still waiting for him to figure that out?”
7. Julie’s whole attitude here when she thinks she’s about to score hot gossip about Luke’s love life. I’m especially soft for how it parallels Luke reacting to Nick in “Edge of Great.” Both Julie and Luke immediately jump to the classic high school “I am going to make fun of the idea of you having a crush. I am not deflecting at all. No, I am being super casual.” I love them; they’re such dorks.
8. The way Luke blinks as he dwells for just a wee second on the fact that Julie has thought about whether or not he’s a romantic. I can’t find a gif of it, nor can I make gifs, so you’ll just have to go to 13:25 in the episode and appreciate it there.
9. Julie blatantly checks him out when he goes to get his guitar and I appreciate her honesty. She knows what she’s about.
10. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Do you approve of my guitar playing, Julie? Are you impressed, Julie? Do you love me, Julie?” They’ve spent the whole weekend writing songs, but this is Luke’s first time really showing her Sunset Curve’s music, and he’s desperate for her approval. And then he gets her approval, because she does love his music, but she loves his music because she’s already heard it because she grew up with Trevor Wilson’s music. So basically, he’s being a shy puppy here because he wants her approval more than anything, and he’s about to get it in the worst possible way. Thanks, I hate it.
11. He continues to be a puppy who craves her approval and I can’t stand it. He’s also about to get his heart ripped out of his chest by this Trevor reveal so let’s just enjoy him being an innocent puppy while we can.
12. Once again, I’m struggling to find the right gif, but the way Luke says, “Julie… what were his other hits?” makes me soft for two reasons. One, he knows that she knows. He continues to demonstrate how much he respects and trusts her musical knowledge.
And two, to quote @sanssssastark, it’s the way “he grips his guitar strap like a life line while the awful realization washes over him and he clearly already knows, but he has to ask her. So he says, ‘Julie’ to get her attention because she knows and he needs her to tell him all the while pleading with his eyes that the next words out of her mouth aren’t what he’s already sure they’ll be, but if they are, at least he’s going to hear it from her.”
13. “Luke introduced you to rock.” I can’t fully unpack that right now because I won’t be able to stop screaming about it, but the sheer soulmatism destroys me. Luke’s music is fundamental to who Julie is as a musician and, by the end of the season, Julie’s music will become so fundamental to Luke that he’d rather be erased from existence than make music without her and I really have to stop talking about this or I will go completely feral.
14. There are a lot of emotions going into this dart throw, but this specific shot comes immediately after “Luke introduced you to rock,” so I read part of his fury here as driven by the fact that he was denied his musical connection to Julie for years.
15. Without question, Julie immediately accepts that Luke wrote her favorite songs and created music that is foundational to her as a musician. She takes a moment to adjust to the news, but she never doubts it, even though she’s known Trevor Wilson for years. Maybe her instant belief in Luke is on them being soulmates, maybe it’s on their musical connection. Maybe as soon as she knows that Trevor’s music was actually Luke’s, all the knowledge she has about Luke as a songwriter and musician slots into those songs, and they come into focus in a different way. “Oh right, of course Luke wrote those songs. Especially ‘My Name is Luke’—I always thought that was weird.”
16. How soft Luke’s voice is when he asks Julie, “Where does he live?” Luke is so angry by this point that he just threw a dart into her wall, but he’s very gentle the instant he turns to her. He’s being vulnerable with her and showing how hurt he is, and so she tells him where Trevor lives even though she knows that’s a mistake because she gets how much this hurts and ugh I need to lie down.
In conclusion: they’re soulmates, and this scene has so much great Jukebox content and we should be screaming about it more.
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