Scream 4 (soundtrack)

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Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Score are the soundtracks to the 2011 slasher film Scream 4 , the fourth instalment in the Scream franchise and the sequel to Scream 3 . The former is an original soundtrack consisting 12 songs performed by various artists mainly of the rock genre, such as Ida Maria, The Sounds and The Novocaines, and released on April 12, 2011, by Lakeshore Records, but was not successful as the previous instalment's soundtracks. [1] The latter, is a score soundtrack consisting the original score composed by veteran franchise composer Marco Beltrami, released under the Varèse Sarabande label on April 19, 2011. [2]

Contents

Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
Various artists
ReleasedApril 12, 2011
Genre Pop, rock
Length35:51
Label Lakeshore Records
Producer Buck Sanders, Richard Glasser
Scream soundtrack chronology
Scream 3:
The Score

(2000)
Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(2011)
Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Score
(2015)
Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Something to Die For" Jesper Anderberg
Johan Bengtsson
Fredrik Blond
Maja Ivarsson
Felix Rodriguez
The Sounds 3:42
2."Bad Karma" Desmond Child
Ida Maria Sivertsen
Stefan Tornby
Ida Maria 2:55
3."Cup of Coffee"Corey Marriott
Jay Marriott
Steve Turnock
Liam Young
The Novocaines 1:30
4."Make My Body"Christophe Eagleton
Kamtin Mohager
The Chain Gang of 1974 3:37
5."Don't Mess with the Original" Marco Beltrami Marco Beltrami3:33
6."Yeah Yeah Yeah"Jesper Anderberg
Johan Bengtsson
Fredrik Blond
Maja Ivarsson
Felix Rodriguez
The Sounds3:31
7."Run for Your Life"Tamara Schlesinger6 Day Riot2:32
8."Axel F" Harold Faltermeyer Raney Shockne 3:01
9."On Fire"Jesse Laz Locksley 1:54
10."Devils"Eric Elbogen Say Hi 2:20
11."Denial"Lucas Banker
Logan Conrad Mader
Stereo Black3:43
12."Jill's America"Marco BeltramiMarco Beltrami3:26
Total length:35:51

Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Score

Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Score
Film score by
ReleasedApril 19, 2011
Genre Film score
Length46:30
Label Varèse Sarabande
Producer Marco Beltrami
Scream soundtrack chronology
Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(2000)
Scream 4: Original Motion Picture Score
(2011)
Scream:
Music from Season One

(2015)
Marco Beltrami chronology
Soul Surfer
(2011)
Scream 3
(2011)
The Thing
(2011)

Scream 4 is the last score composed by Beltrami in the Scream franchise, as he was replaced by Brian Tyler for the fifth and sixth instalments. The initial release consisted of only 21 tracks from Beltrami's score lasting for an hour. [3] When the score was packaged in a limited edition box set, along with the predecessor's scores, the album consisted the complete score with additional cues and demos from the original score, running for more than one hour. [4] The limited edition box set was released on January 7, 2022, to coincide the soundtrack release of Scream (2022). [5] [6]

Scream 4– original track listing
No.TitleLength
1."You're Not Real"5:44
2."Dewey In The Morning"0:29
3."Cheating On My Diet / Woodsboro 2010"2:50
4."When You Let Someone Go"1:36
5."It's My Rental"1:35
6."You Were Busy"1:09
7."Which Closet?"4:32
8."Working Together"1:24
9."You Are The Message"3:14
10."Everything's Under Control"1:18
11."I Know How You Feel"2:30
12."Cameras Obscured"1:33
13."Gale and Ghostface"1:05
14."Don't Spoil It"4:27
15."The After Party"2:47
16."I Got It Right"3:58
17."Your Ingenue Days Are Over"5:45
18."The After-After Party"3:16
19."Touch and Go"2:52
20."Don't Spoil It, Part 2"3:57
21."Sid's Advice"5:41
Total length:61:42
Scream 4– limited edition box set track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Stab 6"3:40
2."You're Not Real"5:44
3."Dewey in the Morning"0:29
4."Jenny's Phone Call"0:42
5."Dewey Cleans Up"0:33
6."Cheating On My Diet"2:10
7."Woodsboro 2010"0:43
8."When You Let Someone Go"1:36
9."It's My Rental"1:35
10."The Media Arrives"0:37
11."Interrogation"1:16
12."How's Gale"1:18
13."No Match for the Ninja"0:48
14."You Were Busy"1:09
15."In The Closet"1:42
16."Olivia Dies"4:30
17."Woodsboro Remake"0:21
18."Working Together"1:22
19."You Are the Message"3:13
20."Everything's Under Control"1:16
21."I Know How You Feel"2:29
22."Cameras Obscured"1:32
23."Gale and Ghostface"1:04
24."He's Making the Movie"0:36
25."F**k Bruce Willis"2:16
26."You're a Survivor"4:26
27."The After Party"2:46
28."Make A Move"0:48
29."I'm Gay...If It Helps"1:16
30."Jill, Run!"1:50
31."I Got It, Right"3:56
32."This Is Making A Move"1:22
33."Your Ingenue Days Are Over"5:44
34."Sole Survivor"3:15
35."Touch and Go"2:50
36."You Just Won't Die"3:55
37."Don't F**k with the Original"1:53
38."Dewey in the Morning (original demo)"0:29
39."Dewey Cleans Up (original demo)"0:29
40."Stab Main Title (rejected demo)"1:01
Total length:76:42
Scream 4– limited edition vinyl box set track listing
No.TitleLength
1."You're Not Real"5:44
2."Cheating On My Diet / Woodsboro 2010"2:50
3."When You Let Someone Go"1:36
4."Which Closet?"4:32
5."You Are The Message"3:14
6."Everything's Under Control"1:18
7."I Know How You Feel"2:30
8."I Got It Right"3:58
9."Your Ingenue Days Are Over"5:45
10."The After-After Party"3:16
11."Touch and Go"2:52
12."Don't Spoil It, Part 2"3:57
13."Don't F**k with the Original"1:53
Total length:43:31

Reception

Both the soundtrack and the film's score received mixed critical reactions. Gotham News commented that "This new album attempts to retain the style of the old, while speaking to the present content-diluted market. It has some success, but no cigar." [2] Shadowlocked criticized the soundtrack's overly light tone, saying that "There's little here that I would have picked for a horror movie." [7] James Christopher Monger, in his review for AllMusic , commented that the up-and-coming indie rock and pop songs resulted in a "hodgepodge of moods and styles that never quite clicks, but dutifully echoes the formless post-MP3 musical culture of 2011", giving two-and-a-half to the album. [8]

Filmtracks.com summarised that "Despite the memorable history Beltrami has afforded the franchise musically, Scream 4 is a substantially disappointing continuation of the narrative. He and four assistant composers handle the 2011 entry from a purely functional stance, tackling individual scenes with stylistic remnants of the previous scores while accomplishing absolutely nothing new." [9] In contrast, the music review site Sountrackgeek gave the score a highly favorable review: "It is possibly the best score in the Scream series, because it is so incredibly forceful. It wants to be full of action and chills and it is. It's not the scariest of scores, but Scream has never been about the moody scares, but rather the surprise scare and crazy fight/chase scenes. It succeeds and I had a blast listening to this from start to finish." [10]

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