Spellbound (soundtrack)
2024 soundtrack album
Spellbound (Soundtrack From the Netflix Film by Skydance Animation) is the soundtrack album to the 2024 animated musical fantasy comedy film Spellbound directed by Vicky Jenson and produced by Skydance Animation for Netflix; the film features the voices of Rachel Zegler, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Tituss Burgess, Nathan Lane, Javier Bardem, and Nicole Kidman. It contains the film's score and songs from the film composed by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater.
The soundtrack was released through Republic Records on November 22, 2024, the same day as the film. "The Way It Was Before (End Credits Version)", performed by Lauren Spencer Smith, preceded as the lead single.
Background and development
In April 2020, composer Alan Menken announced that he would be working on the project. The following month, Skydance announced that Menken had reteamed with song lyricist Glenn Slater and executive music producer Chris Montan. Both of them joined the film very early in production, even when the film's outline was very vague, as with earlier animated films where the songs develop as the fabric for the film. Slater admitted that the film had eight places which had huge emotional and comic moments; these were described as the "cinder blocks" as it served them the foundations for the piece. Menken and Slater discussed with the producers to develop the songs at these particular cinder blocks, which were looked in a dramatic way.
The challenges with the film, were there were no romantic moments or having an antagonist, but the composers wanted them to hold people's attention and hold the emotional thread.
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