That group’s “Sabotage” was also used in the first trailer for Star Trek Beyond, due out July 22nd. This isn’t the first time contemporary music has infiltrated the Star Trek universe: In the reboot’s first film, it’s revealed this iteration of James Kirk is a fan of the Beastie Boys. Rihanna’s manager confirmed that she penned the track.Īlthough the track is tied to Star Trek Beyond, “Sledgehammer” has been kicking around since at least May 2014, when Rihanna tweeted to her fans, “You’re just another brick and I’m a sledgehammer.” The original score is composed by Michael Giacchino.

“I hit a wall, I thought that I would hurt myself/ Oh I was sure, your words would leave me unconscious,” Rihanna sings on the aching chorus, which sports a monster hook typical of Sia‘s work. Star Trek Beyond, released on, consists of a playlist of 25 credited songs, from various artists including The Columbia Studio Orchestra, Rihanna and Beastie Boys. After an alien seeking revenge on Starfleet destroys the Enterprise and maroons its crew on a lost. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. The moody piano ballad catapults the action in the latest trailer, with the pulverizing nature of the “Sledgehammer” lyrics pairing well with the destruction of the USS Enterprise. A Star Beyond Time - The Music of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2019) News, Inc. In a move that unified two seemingly different fan bases, the Rihanna Navy and Trekkies both had reason to celebrate Monday as the third trailer for the upcoming sci-fi epic Star Trek Beyond featured a taste of a new Rihanna song titled “Sledgehammer.” Rather, it will examine one of his earliest scores for the Roger Corman produced Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), which is also the oldest score of Horner’s for which both music and film are readily available, and compare it to the music for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (1982) and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) as they are the.

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