text: In a 2021 analysis, Konstantinos Pappis of Our Culture Mag wrote that "what’s certain is that the role of music is more than just affective or nostalgic; it inhabits a complex and often gendered perspective that may either reinforce or offer an alternative to and an escape from the gaze." Clare Nina Norelli of Mubi.com gave a comparative analysis on the film's incorporated music, saying "Within the film, rock and pop songs tether the narrative to the material world both diegetically and non-diegetically, connecting the boys to the Lisbon sisters and locating the action firmly within the film’s mid-1970s setting through its contemporaneous music choices [...] We hear these songs when the sisters give a small party at their home, attend their school dance, and when they engage in a moving telephone exchange with the boys that involves playing records to each other in order to express the inexpressible, allowing the music to speak where they cannot." She further described Air's score as "metaphysical, aligned with the heavens" and further wrote "Through its spacious, soaring, almost hymnal synth harmonies, pulsating rhythms, and bittersweet melodies, their score coveys musically the translucence of memory and invests the ethereal specters of the Lisbon sisters on screen with an added otherworldliness."
  Track listing
  Personnel
  Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Virgin Suicides.
  Sofia Coppola – cover art, liner notes
  Corinne Day – photography
  Dan Hersh – mastering
  Bill Inglot – mastering
  George McFetridge – design
  Jill Meyers – music business affairs
  Brian Reitzell – music supervisor
  Chart performance