Bouchard wrote some of the tracks with Nora Smith, the film's screenplay writer, while the score is conducted, orchestrated and arranged by Tim Davies.

[2] The third number "The Itty Bitty Ditty Committee" is served as a closure to Gene's story and featured in the end credits of the film.

[6] Karmazyn said that the sessions were held for about 8–10 hours a day, due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the sections had to be spread out six feet apart, which was a "biggest challenge".

Karmazyn said that despite restrictions, they managed to record the score and "the result was absolutely beautiful, the mix of the film was fantastic, sounds amazing".

[6] Several instruments such as horns, brass, woodwinds, ukulele, strings and timpani were used as they wanted the "music to be bigger and larger for the film, compared to the show so that the audience get their money worth for seeing in theatres".

While opining, about the directors' intention to provide a full musical that was scrapped due to pandemic restrictions, she felt that as "true of each individual number on its own — the animation team went all out on the dancing sequences, filling the big screen with colorful bodies moving in rhythm — they’re too spread out for the movie to feel like a musical 'spectacle'".

"[12] Ben Sherlock of Screen Rant called the soundtrack of the film as a "mixed bag" as some of the numbers are "catchy and well-written", while the rest of the album are "forgettable" and termed as "unnecessary detours that stop the plot dead".

[13] Scott Tobias of The Guardian wrote that the songs are "a goof on splashy production numbers, squeaked out by tuneless New Jersey voices and choreography that's less Busby Berkeley than Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark".