Turning Red

Turning Red (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to Disney/Pixar's 2022 film of the same name. The film featured three original songs written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, the latter appeared as the member of the fictional boy band 4*Town. The rest of the tracks, are instrumentals from the film score composed by Ludwig Göransson for his first animated feature film. Walt Disney Records released the soundtrack album digitally and on CD on March 11, 2022. Background and production On July 14, 2021, following the release of the teaser trailer, Ludwig Göransson was announced to composed the film's score, making it his first animated film composition. Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, having previously co-written and producing the theme song and soundtrack for the James Bond installment No Time to Die with Hans Zimmer and Steve Mazzaro, wrote three original songs performed in the film by the fictional boy band 4*Town. Tom MacDougall, executive producer of Disney Music Group, had been a fan of Ellish's work since "Ocean Eyes" and claimed that he was impressed "by the breadth of the territory that their songwriting and performing covered". The score and the songs, were first recorded in late-2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions were lifted. According to the executive producer of Pixar Animation Studios, Lindsay Collins, "U Know What's Up" was intended to be a confidence booster, "1 True Love" was intended as the group's love ballad, and "Nobody Like U" was the song that everyone knows from the group. Collins said she had decided to approach Eilish and O'Connell at the start of the production, near the same time that Eilish was coming to fame herself; Collins said that her own child had become a fan of Eilish's music which has inspired this choice. To pitch the idea to the pair, production created a scrapbook based on scenes of Mei and her fascination with 4*Town they had already developed for the film, at times putting cutouts of Eilish' and O'Connell's heads in place of the 4*Town members to show their appreciation for the pair. Both were already animation fans, and Eilish said that when they saw the concept from the material they got, she immediately got the idea they were aiming for, as she had been a fan of boy bands herself and recognized the bond Mei had with 4*Town. For writing Mei's theme, several instruments such as conventional Western flute, dizi and a Chinese bamboo flute were used.