A24 Announces PRIMETIME Soundtrack Album Featuring Phoebe Bridgers’ End Title Song “On Video” & 24 Tracks Of Original Score By Ari Balouzian – Out September 25th
A24 Music announces the original soundtrack to PRIMETIME featuring the end title song “On Video” by Phoebe Bridgers, and 24-tracks of original score by award-winning composer Ari Balouzian. The PRIMETIME original soundtrack is out on September 25th to coincide with the movie’s theatrical release. The first track released from the album “Savior”, which actor Robert Pattinson listened to on set to get into character, is out now.
PRIMETIME is directed by Lance Oppenheim, produced by and starring Robert Pattinson as famed To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, with Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, and Phoebe Bridgers. The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Bridgers, who makes her acting debut in the movie, contributes “On Video” to the album. It marks the first new music from the four-time GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter since the release of her internationally lauded new album, Lost Weekend, last month as well as the first time she’s contributed an original song for the end title of a feature film. The song, a soaring rock track with searing guitars, takes its cues from Balouzian’s tense score in creating a visceral and cathartic end to the movie’s immersive soundscape.
Inspired by classic crime and noir scores, this marks Balouzian’s latest collaboration with Oppenheim, and their first narrative feature together. The two re-team on A24’s YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, set for release later this October.
“I started working on PRIMETIME after reading the script, and had access to the dailies while they were shooting, so the process started super early,” says Balouzian, who performed and recorded the majority of the score himself, outside of woodwinds and drums, “Lance and I were able to craft the sound during filming so they could edit to it. The process helped the music become a part of the emotional identity of the movie that the actors and other artisans could actually interact with.”
Throughout production and the edit, Balouzian’s score was used to tune the film’s slippery tone, oscillating between darkly funny and genuinely harrowing, as the line between performance and reality erodes. “Ari’s music has this ability to feel emotional and sickly at the same time. We wanted it to sound like the network‑news‑themed version of a noir nightmare.” Oppenheim points to the way performance, image, score, and sound all start to warp together as the film progresses – especially around Robert Pattinson’s increasingly frayed Chris: “As Chris loses his grip, the film flickers among camera formats, and Ari’s music evokes the feeling of driving into the abyss.”
Tracklist for PRIMETIME soundtrack:
- Incantations
- Encounter
- Undressing
- The Craft
- National Epidemic
- Primetime
- The Perfect Family
- First Day On The Job
- Boy Scout
- Ambition
- Merrygoround
- Fan Mail
- Trawling
- Showtime
- BBQ
- India 1996
- The Search
- Ghost Car
- Pillory
- The Righteous
- Head on a Stick
- Ace in the Hole
- SAG Card
- Savior
- On Video (Phoebe Bridgers)