Scream is the third solo studio album by American musician Chris Cornell. The release of this album marked a shift from Cornell’s previous musical efforts with the exclusion of some guitar and rock elements that were replaced with producer Timbaland’s electronic pop soundscapes. Sharing why he chose to do something so different, Cornell told Rolling Stone: Maybe I’m an optimist or just an idiot, but I really think the fans will come around to the concept. I could sit down and make a wall-to-wall guitar album tomorrow. I think it’s important for fans to know that but if I’m doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too. Rolling Stone gave the album a two-star review, adding: Scream feels like it belongs in a time capsule, a strange mutation that could only have been born this decade. Originally fellow musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails publicly criticized Cornell, tweeting: You know that feeling you get when someone embarrasses themselves so badly YOU feel uncomfortable? Heard Chris Cornell’s record? Jesus. Reznor took the public ribbing a step further by announcing on April Fools Day that he also had an urban-pop album produced by Timbaland coming out titled Strobe Light. Later, Reznor apologized and the two co-headlined a 2014 North American tour, confessing: Prior to the co-headlining tour, I wrote Chris an email apologizing for that outburst… We had a chip on our shoulder about Soundgarden because their record, Superunknown, came out the same day as [NIN’s album] Downward Spiral came out, and they beat us to number one on Billboard… We were on Interscope [Records] and I had Jimmy Iovine, the president of the label, come up to me on every record from With Teeth onwards, saying I should do some sort of urban thing — it was Timbaland for a while, then it was Pharrell for a while — because ‘that’s how you sell records.'