It featured 15 tracks which included songs performed by Caroline Polachek, Sloppy Jane, Phoebe Bridgers, Kristina Esfandiari, Florist, and yeule amongst others.

[2][3] They pitched the idea to A24 on curating a soundtrack for the fictional television show The Pink Opaque and collaborate with contemporary bands and artists to write songs for the same.

[5] The second single from the soundtrack, "Riding Around in the Dark" was written by Emily Sprague, vocalist of the indie rock band Florist, to capture the feeling of "believing that the world is ending but somehow still living in it".

Schoenbrun, who was obssessed with the song in high school, stated: "It's about being a 17-year-old girl and feeling not cis normal, like you don't fit in with the people who have assimilated to a sense of normative culture.

The romance of that double record is rich, the visuals just so perfectly in line with this kind of haunted fairy tale—it was one of the first places I went when I was thinking how I wanted this movie to feel.

[14][15] Tessa Kaur of The Gamer wrote "There are so many ways to tell a story with one movie, but using your soundtrack to connect with your audience is a severely underrated one.

[17] and Robert Daniels of RogerEbert.com and William Bibbani of TheWrap described it as an "earworm" and "killer soundtrack",[18][19] while Ross Bonaime of Collider called it as "tremendous".

[20] Adam Nayman of The Ringer wrote "the film pauses for musical numbers that serve as a sort of Greek chorus, delivered by singers who strategically collapse the distance between Nickelodeon and SoundCloud.

"[21] Colin Joyce of Pitchfork gave 7.1 out of 10 and wrote "Both I Saw the TV Glow and its soundtrack begin in ways that feel familiar and nostalgic before diving back into the shadows, rendering beloved youthful memories unrecognizably strange.