“Accidentally In Love” by Counting Crows

Counting Crows' "Accidentally in Love" was a commission. DreamWorks Animation tapped frontman Adam Duritz for a song to open Shrek 2, over the scene of Shrek and Princess Fiona enjoying their honeymoon, and it became the first track on the film's soundtrack. Duritz went to the studio's animation camp and watched roughly half the movie to get his bearings, and he later told Billboard he nearly didn't write it at all: he was stuck in a block and had never been one for songs made to order.

The writing credit is shared with David Bryson, David Immerglück, Matt Malley and Dan Vickrey, and Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed it. Released as a single in 2004, it went to number three in Ireland and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song at the 77th Academy Awards.

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