«I actually had a friend of mine who was good friends with Timbaland's cousin. So I'd never met him. We just had this phone conversation and then went into the studio and started working right away», said he.

Cornell also compared his new record with Pink Floyd's album The Wall. «Timbaland can do anything. People thought it was going to be Timbaland beats with a bunch of fuzzy rock guitars and me singing over it. I don't think they expected us to go so far into the direction we have», said singer.

In fact, some famous musicians have already criticized Scream – for example, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who said that Cornell «embarrassed himself».