“Twisters” has exceeded $150 million at the box office on a worldwide scale, and fans are loving the movie’s soundtrack, too.
The 2024 film starring Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos and Daisy Edgar-Jones is a standalone sequel to the 1996 “Twister” film starring Helen Hunt, the late Bill Paxton and Jami Gertz.
While both movies bring their own originality to the story, they both center around storm-hunters on a mission to save the public from devastating and deadly tornadoes.
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The 2024 film is one filled with action sequences and a country music soundtrack.
The soundtrack includes original songs by country artists, including the movie’s biggest track, “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” by Luke Combs. The song plays during the scene where Powell’s character Tyler first emerges onto the screen.
Other big name artists, like Miranda Lambert, Kane Brown, Lainey Wilson and Jelly Roll, also contributed originals to the film.
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Shania Twain is an artist featured in both the 2024 film and the 1996 movie sountracks. Her song “No One Needs to Know” is in the 1996 movie, and her song “Boots Don’t” with Breland is in the 2024 blockbuster.
Most of the songs heard in the movie were written specifically for it, but Twain and Breland’s song was one that happened to perfectly fit into the film.
“I already had my song with Shania and was looking for a good opportunity to release it, and it ended up being a good fit for the film,” Breland told Billboard. “It wasn’t something we were specifically writing for the soundtrack; we were just fortunate that what they were looking for was something we already had.”
Universal and filmmakers worked with Kevin Weaver, the West Coast president of Atlantic, to create the country soundtrack for the film, according to Billboard.
Lee Isaac Chung, the director of the film, picked around 20 scenes from the movie that he wanted original music for, the outlet reports, and then Atlantic began to choose artists to write a song specifically for each given scene.
“I’d never seen a country album in an action film before,” said Chung per IndieWire. “That was the idea I had, and everybody at Universal [was] really excited about that opportunity. Then, we brought on Kevin Weaver at Atlantic Records, [who] helped us run with it.”
In total, there are 29 songs in the “Twisters” film, including 19 original tracks.
- “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” – Luke Combs
- “Ain’t in Kansas Anymore” – Miranda Lambert
- “Steal My Thunder” – Conner Smith (feat. Tucker Wetmore)
- “Feelin’ Country” – Thomas Rhett
- “The Cards I’ve Been Dealt” – Warren Zeiders
- “Never Left Me” – Megan Moroney
- “Out of Oklahoma” – Lainey Wilson
- “Hell or High Water” – Bailey Zimmerman
- “Dead End Road” – Jelly Roll
- “Country Classic” – Kane Brown
- “Tear Us Apart” – Sam Barber
- “Song While You’re Away” – Tyler Childers
- “Already Had It” – Tucker Wetmore
- “Chrome Cowgirl” – Leon Bridges
- “Death Wish Love” – Benson Boone
- “Boots Don’t” – Shania Twain & Breland
- “Stronger Than a Storm” – Dylan Gossett
- “Chasing the Wind” – Lanie Gardner
- “Leave the Light On” – Jelly Roll (feat. Alexandra Kay)
- “Before I Do” – Wyatt Flores & Jake Kohn
- “Caddo County” – The Red Clay Strays
- “Blackberry Wine” – Tanner Usrey
- “Too Easy” – Tanner Adell
- “Shake Shake (All Night Long)” – Mason Ramsey
- “New Loop” – Tyler Halverson
- “Touchdown” – Flatland Cavalry
- “Driving You Home” – Nolan Taylor
- “Wall of Death” – Wilderado, Ken Pomeroy, & James McAlister
- “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” – Charley Crockett
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