Song is featured on Sing 2 soundtrack and film
U2 has released “Your Song Saved My Life” from the Universal/Illumination film, Sing 2. The song is the first new music since 2019 and is available digitally. The band teased the track on Monday (Nov 1st) with a snippet on its newly launched TikTok page.
Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr and Adam Clayton wrote the track for the eagerly anticipated movie Sing 2, which premieres in the US on December 22nd, and features Bono making his animated film debut as the reluctant and reclusive rock legend lion, Clay Calloway.
“The band recorded this amazing U2 song,” the film’s writer and director Garth Jennings tells Entertainment Weekly. “It’s just full of so much emotion and heart and literally did exactly what he said in that first phone call. It just says, ‘Okay, here’s how we want your audience to feel as they leave the cinema.'”
The film is packed with 40 classic and contemporary tracks, and celebrates the power of music to heal – something Bono gave voice to last year in his birthday list of “60 Songs That Saved My Life.”
U2’s new song will be featured on the film’s official soundtrack, due December 17th via Republic Records. It includes a version of the band’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” sung by Scarlett Johansson and Bono, as well as “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” by Johansson, and “Where the Streets Have No Name” in which Johansson is joined by Tori Kelly, Taron Egerton, Reese Witherspoon and Nick Kroll.
The Sing 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features a total of 21 tracks with the likes of Halsey, Elton John, Billie Eilish and Pharrell Williams. The set will be available on CD and vinyl configurations including a Target exclusive 2 LP purple vinyl.
