singer and songwriter adam duritz from counting crows said that his band's song, "accidentally in love", "fits into the movie because it's the story of people who fall in love who weren't supposed to fall in love." composer james horner operated the sound of the score on different levels which james said as "fun". his score came out as an eels song into a romantic scene with shrek and fiona, or a funny scene with donkey. george bruns did not compose the film score with horner, due to a conflict.