[1] On April 16, 2019, Mychael and Jeff Danna, who both previously worked with the studio on The Good Dinosaur (2015), were revealed to be the film's composers.

[2] When the Danna brothers were approached by director Dan Scanlon to compose the musical score, they did not know anything about the film before their meeting with the Onward team.

[4] On February 12, 2020, Brandi Carlile revealed she recorded the original song "Carried Me With You" for the film's end credits, co-written with Phil and Tim Hanseroth.

And I mean, on that soundtrack alone, there was Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, the Indigo Girls and opera.

[9] Alex Reif from Laughing Place reviewed "the first track is the end credit closer by Brandi Carlile, "You Carried Me With You."

It’s a lighthearted, bouncy melody that can be played uplifting, like on "A Little Magic," subdued like on "New Ian," sad on "Share My Life With Him," and adventurous on "Voltar Thunderseer!

""[10] James Southall, a review from Movie-Wave, had stated "A lot of the ingredients are here for a really fine score – there’s action, adventure, fantasy and magic and at times really heartwarming emotional material, and all those components in isolation are done pretty well.