"Robbers", a song by the English indie rock band The 1975 from their 2013 debut album, was inspired by the film. Vocalist Matthew Healy explained: "I got really obsessed with the idea behind Patricia Arquette's character in True Romance when I was about eighteen. That craving for the bad boy in that film [is] so sexualized."[9]True Romance, the 2013 debut album from English pop star Charli XCX, was named after the film.[10] In the trance song "Solarcoaster" by Solarstone, a sample is used from the film. The sample includes the line spoken by Alabama, "That three words went through my mind endlessly. Repeating themselves like a broken record. You're so cool. You're so cool. You're so cool."[11]
Reception
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, "The score varies from Burl Ives to Aerosmith, with theme music by Hans Zimmer that has the jingling sound of a Christmas carol, yet all the music feels exactly right. The soundtrack underscores the sense that this film is a fable, albeit a movie-mad fairy tale with a body count for modern times."[12]
