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Deadpool & Wolverine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (also known as Deadpool & Wolverine: Van Jamz) is the soundtrack album for the Marvel Studios film Deadpool & Wolverine. It was released by Hollywood Records on July 24, 2024, with a physical release on July 26. A separate film score album, Deadpool & Wolverine (Original Score), composed by Rob Simonsen, was released digitally on July 24 with a regular edition and a deluxe that also includes the soundtrack album. Madonna's 1989 single "Like A Prayer" is heavily featured in the film, but is excluded from the official soundtrack release; an EP, titled Deadpool & Wolverine: Madonna's "Like a Prayer" EP, was released by Warner Records on August 9, 2024.
Stray Kids, who competed and placed first in the Korean music reality show Kingdom: Legendary War (2021) performed a mashup of "God's Menu" and Blackpink's "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" with Felix dressed as Deadpool, thereby paying homage to the character and the film; the band and Ryan Reynolds, who plays Deadpool, shared a mutual rapport in social media platforms. Reynolds wanted the band to appear in a sequence in the film, but due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, it was logistically impossible.
Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood wrote "Musically, though, it is the needle drops that really rock". Vicky Jessop of Evening Standard and Cory Woodroof of For The Win (USA Today) called it as "excellent" and "winningly brash".
Rob Simonsen composed the film score after previously working with director Shawn Levy on The Adam Project (2022) and the fourth season of Stranger Things. Simonsen admitted that the film's "exhaustingly funny" tone and irreverence guided his musical landscape where "in some ways, the stakes are less — they’re pretty high — but just the ability to have fun"; the film experiences numerous tonal shifts, where it goes from orchestral and emotional, to wacky and weird, admitting it as a "pretty broad canvas to be able to paint on". Simonsen never met Levy in person and the latter supervised the film score through Zoom and FaceTime.
Reception
Zanobard Reviews assigned 6/10 to the score and wrote "Rob Simonsen’s Deadpool & Wolverine score is… an interesting effort, for sure But the main theme is kinda not as interesting as you’d want it to be, the action is a tad generic and the quieter moments are just kind of all right so overall – it’s difficult to have much to say about it."
Track listing
All music composed by Rob Simonsen except where noted.
No.
Title
Length
1.
"LFG (Theme from Deadpool & Wolverine)"
1:49
2.
"Deadpool Has a Theme"
2:29
3.
"It’s Been a While"
0:39
4.
"Reaching Too High"
2:15
5.
"Make a Wish"
1:26
6.
"Walk with Me" ()
2:27
7.
"Two Choices"
2:32
8.
"Eating My Feelings"
2:30
9.
"They're Coming"
2:26
10.
"Family Feud"
0:51
11.
"I Love This Part"
2:13
12.
"Finger-Lickin' Dead-Inside Pixie Slab of Third Rate Dime-Store Nut-Milk"
3:05
13.
"Your Fingers Are Inside Me, But Not in a Good Way"
"Like a Prayer" by Madonna is used in the film, and was heavily featured in trailers and promotional material. Reynolds, Jackman, and Levy sought permission from Madonna, who offered notes on the scene where they wanted to integrate the song. However, the song is not included in the soundtrack album, as Madonna declined to give permission. On August 9, 2024, an EP titled Deadpool & Wolverine: Madonna's "Like a Prayer" EP, was released by Warner Records, including the original version of "Like a Prayer", along with two versions produced for the film – the "Battle Royale Mix" and the "Choir Version" performed by the "I'll Take You There Choir". The "Choir" version of the song reached the summit on TikTok Billboard Top 50.
