January 3, 2024 at 4:42 p.m
The tracklist for the “Mean Girls” soundtrack is out, and it turns out that some of the songs “don't measure up” and made it into Tina Fey's film adaptation of the Broadway musical, out January 15th.
The fourth installment of the high school dramedy – an adaptation of the stage musical based on the original 2004 film, which in turn was based on Rosalind Weisman's 2002 parenting book “Queen Bees and Wannabes” – stars Angourie Rice ( “The Last Thing He Told Me”) as Cady Haron, Auli'i Cravalho (“Moana,” “The Power”) as Janice and Jaquel Spivey (starring in “A Strange Loop” on Broadway) as Damien.
Renée Rapp, who played Regina George in the musical, will reprise her role in the film. Avantika (“Senior Year”) will play Karen and Bebe Wood (“Love, Victor”) will play Gretchen.
Aside from Cady and her shuttling between Janice and Damien and “The Plastics,” she'll also feel an attraction to Christopher Briney's (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”) Aaron Samuels. Jenna Fischer (“The Office”) will play Mrs. Heron, Cady’s mother, and Busy Phillips will play Mrs. George, Regina’s mother. Jon Hamm will play Coach Carr. Ashley Park will play the French teacher. Tina Fey will return as Ms. Norbury and Tim Meadows will reprise his role as Principal Duval from the first film.
Rapp, whose debut album “Snow Angel” was released in August 2023, will sing some songs solo, as will Angourie Rice. The entire cast also joins in for some numbers, but Chris Briney won't be ditching his vocals from “The Summer I Turned Pretty” for a lyric or two, he told Entertainment Weekly.
The official soundtrack setlist, released by Interscope Records on Wednesday, can be found below:
- “A Cautionary Tale” – Aulili Cravalho and Jaquel Spivey
- “What If” – Angourie Rice
- “Meet The Plastics” – Reneé Rapp
- “Stupid With Love” – Angourie Rice and the cast of “Mean Girls”
- Apex Predator's Auli'i Cravalho and Jaquel Spivey
- “What's wrong with me?” Bebe Wood
- “Sexy” – Avantika
- “Someone’s going to get hurt” – Reneé Rapp
- “Revenge Party” – Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Angourie Rice, Tim Meadows and the cast of “Mean Girls”
- “World Burn” – Reneé Rapp and the cast of “Mean Girls”
- “I'd rather be me” – Auli'i Cravalho and the cast of “Mean Girls”
- “I See Stars” – Angourie Rice and the cast of “Mean Girls”
- “Not My Fault” – Reneé Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion
Songs cut from the film musical:
- “It roars”
- “What do you belong to”
- “Fearless”
- “To stop”
- “Whose house is this”
- “More is better”
- “Do that”
Watch the final trailer below: