It wasn’t until Ed spoke with a friend in publishing that he first heard the rumor that there may be concerns with the song’s licensing. When the song was released in the UK during the summer of 1997, it was a hit and Ed was once again reassured that he had made the right selection. Wes,, Patrick and I sat with it and… it just blew people’s minds.” ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ is there the whole time. “The next couple of months unfold and the movie’s put together. “He was looking at the final crane shot of Neve walking away from the dorm triumphantly… and I’m like, ‘dude, you gotta hear this.’ like, ‘Oh my God, it’s perfect!’ We both felt like was the perfect way to end the movie. “I rushed back to Los Angeles with a copy of the song and Patrick was putting the very first scenes of Scream 2 together,” Ed told Bloody Disgusting in our exclusive chat. The album would constitute the song’s initial release in America as well, all but ensuring wide exposure for the emerging band and robust record sales – this was a few years before the song was featured in Cruel Intentions. In partnership with EMI, Ed brokered a deal to obtain the song for the film which would make “Bittersweet Symphony” the first single featured on the soundtrack. “They played me the song,” Ed recalled, “and it was ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ by The Verve. “Well, we were not planning on putting out Scream 2 until then, so we thought maybe there was a way to time it.” “ told me that they had this band coming out but that they didn’t plan on releasing in America until the fall,” Ed continued.

One company Ed partnered with was multinational record label EMI, an organization keen to become involved in the phenomenon that was the burgeoning Scream franchise. When Bloody Disgusting recently spoke with Grammy and Peabody Award winning Music Supervisor Ed Gerrard, he recalled how “Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve almost became a key component of one of horror’s most popular franchises.Įd explained, “It was the start of filming for Scream 2 and I was in England… one of the things I was going to do is hit all the record companies to see they had that would work for the film.” She’s accompanied by the song “She Said” by Collective Soul, a beautifully reflective rumination on a life filled with loneliness and regret, one in which truth, purpose and forgiveness is emotively sought.īut, as well as the song fits, it was not the first creative choice for the sequel’s concluding sequence.

As it stands, Scream 2 concludes with Sidney standing tall and walking away from the terrors that had been deployed to exploit and destroy her. Rather than an unnerving anthem for the villain, this song would have represented the complicated triumph of the hero. Still, there was another single that almost made its way into scary movie canon with the release of Scream 2 (1997). It’s common knowledge that the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds song “Red Right Hand” is the hit most associated with the Scream franchise.

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