The full medley for Electro surfaces in My Enemy, which quietly in a way that almost perfectly captures the escalation of the centerpiece Times Square sequence. The closest is on a soft romance theme that, admittedly, strikes a nice melancholy tone considering fans' knowledge of the Gwen Stacy storyline. The theme keeps jumping from motif to motif schizophrenically, never once approaching melody. Here, Zimmer's work is a lot like the frequent screenplays of Amazing Spider-Man 2 writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci: a lot of things happening, none of them cohering. The rest of the score offers variations on Zimmer's new Spidey themes, complete with wailing electric guitars, complete with that synth drum pitter-patter that also surfaced in all previous Spider-Man movies. This is by far the most adventurous score in the Spider-Man series, probably of all the Marvel films proper. It's sort of embarrassing, sort of dumb, and actually kind of interesting, the sort of sonic risk you usually don't see in superhero films. In a brief snippet on the soundtrack where you hear them goofing off in the studio, it sounds clear that Pharrell's faking a baritone to illustrate that this is sort of a dubstep opera. Pharrell also adds some operatic spoken words, ostensibly meant to capture Electro's fractured mindset. The crescendo is appropriately violent as the reverb flexes violently on the track.
It has the crunching guitars of Zimmer's usual rock-influenced work, but it also has quieter, more barren passages where you can hear what sounds like a single oboe, repeating a single foreboding two-note variation. Jamie Foxx's bad guy has a theme that can be best described as Philip Glass does Skrillex. It's more of an isolated audio motif, however: the biggest recurring trend throughout the music is the theme for Electro. There's a new hero theme for Spidey, the third following Danny Elfman's bouncy work in the Sam Raimi films and James Horner's melodic take in Amazing Spider-Man. It's also one of the few blockbuster soundtracks in existence to feature scatting. This soundtrack actually combines traditional string and woodwind instruments with a heavy electronic sound, resulting in competing and often contradictory motifs.
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