I've heard so much variety in how people respond to the scene where James, Maddie, and Donna sing together. Some feel it is unbearably cheesy and ear-splliting. Others think it is a wonderful, tender, teenage moment.

I used to hate it, and almost got embarrased just watching it. But it's grown on me. Yes, James sounds like an androdynous weird emo singer in it, but you know what? It's a part of teenage life, a scene like this. Maybe that's why it embarrasses us, because it's so real and sincere and honest. Music is such an integral part of the show, too.

 Thoughts?

My opinion is pretty much like yours, I used to hate with passion the whole scene and song... But now, though I still have serious problems with the song, I really like the scene, which summarizes briefly (Coop: "...and to the point") what is going on between those three... I like seeing James switching glances as he switches girls in his heart, I like the lust in Maddy's eyes and I like how Donna is the only one there really in love... And of course I love how the scene ends with BOB, as someone put it perfectly in one of the Create-A-Caption marvels, using his ungodly shoes to walk over the Haywards' furniture, definitive proof that he is, yes, evil.....

IMO the most hilarious use of "Just You and I" comes later, when James is oh-so-depressed-and-devastated in the porch of the Marsh residence...

well, if the reason we hate this is somehow because we associate it with our younger days, does that mean that Evelyn Marsh and Little nicky some how connect with some collective unconscious that we have been avoiding?

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I think it's Lynch's humour and obsession with the sights and sounds of the 1950s, it's cheesy and sickly sweet, but isn't that the joke? - just like Cage singing "Love Me" in "Wild At Heart".  It's never embarrassed me, I find it hysterically funny and at the same time, like all classic Lynch moments (Sherilyn Fenn's roadside death in "Wild At Heart" / Betty's audition in "Mulholland Drive") it manages to transcend humour and have almost a bi-tonal effect that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.  I think it's one of the great moments of the series.

It's a very sweet song:)so nice and innocent,well... the sound was not very good...but the melody is very tender.

I've heard so much variety in how people respond to the scene where James, Maddie, and Donna sing together. Some feel it is unbearably cheesy and ear-splliting. Others think it is a wonderful, tender, teenage moment.

Hey, I don't hate it and think it's "cheesy and ear-splliting" but I don't think it's "a wonderful, tender, teenage moment" either. I like it because it's funny, it's funny because it's over cheesy and ridiclious (the same as what Exy just said), and yeah, maybe you are right, some people can't see it as funny because they have similiar memories and they have to take it seriously. And this again brings me to my old subject, so once again... ahem... James' characters is ironic! He is supposed to be tough, badass Hell's Angel motorcyclist, but we find out that he's actually really soft and wimp.

I feel that its a song that Laura, Donna and James sang together and I think that the backup vocals of the girls sounds very ghostly. As if James is singing out to Laura and she is responding with spectral "ooooohs" and "aaaahs". Maddy starts to make a bit of a transformation here as well, and this is also when BOB starts to become really attracted to her.

I like the song and the scene, but for the song's lyrics and James' voice.  (There are also some Julee Cruise songs I think have asinine lyrics.  "Mysteries of Love" from BV, for example, which I also fast forward through.) 

p.s. I think its Julee doing the background vocals in that scene.  Is it? 

I think the difference for me is that with "Just You and I" and "Love Me" in Wild At Heart, I truly believe that Lynch is going for humour.  With "Mysteries of Love" I think he believes it's poetic and heartfelt and that's why it eggs me more, although the irony line is often so thinly drawn it's hard to know for sure.

oh please.  James is such a girl.  He sounds like he's just been kicked in the nads there. (Or is high on helium.) 

in all honesty i love lynch's elements of retro in his movies. mulholland drive's "i've told every little star" audition with camilla rhodes is such a great scene and a great song, and just all of that in his other movies. angelo badalamenti is also one of my most influential musicians and i love everything he has done.

After all these years its still painful to watch however I love how David pulls us into a beautiful moment then seconds later we see Bob in the living room. Yes!!!!

That's the one redemption of the "Just You and I' scene. Maddy's harrowing vision of BOB which is so amazingly done and bone-chilling. A different bone-chilling caused by the trio's rendition of their little ditty. And I appreciate the mention of Sherilyn's scene from Wild at Heart, which is my personal favorite, because of it's "bi-tonal" feel, showing how wonderfully Lynch treads the fine lne between dark humor and heartwrenching drama.

I dreamt two nights ago that I was playing and singing this song...In the morning, I played and sang it out....I love it when TP enters my dreams....

I definately agree with this scene being a tranformative moment for maddy and opening the door to bob.

............. ps- ive been on a 12 day TP binge

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I don't mind the song---I like the 50's feel (except for James' voice--sounds like he took one too many kicks to the testicles. YOW!).  The tense scene with Maddy and James is nice...all he is seeing is Laura, I think. I am wondering if it was Donna's fear of losing James that drew Bob into the room...? But that Maddy is the one that sees him because she is "damned"? Not sure---just a thought.