"What If" is a song by American rock band Creed. It was released on January 4, 2000, as the second single from their second studio album, Human Clay (1999), and as the lead single from Scream 3: The Album (2000), the first of two albums released to promote the 2000 slasher film Scream 3. Written by singer Scott Stapp and guitarist Mark Tremonti, the song has been compared to "Bullets" from the band's third studio album, Weathered (2001).
"What If" was similarly successful to the other three singles from Human Clay. While not entering the US Billboard Hot 100, the song peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, No. 3 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and No. 2 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100.
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Music video
The music video was directed by David Meyers and it features David Arquette reprising his role as Dewey Riley with Roger L. Jackson also reprising his role as Ghostface through archival audio snippets from Scream (1996). The story revolves around Dewey investigating an alleged Ghostface sighting at Sunrise Studios, the fictional studio lot seen in Scream 3 where the Stab films were filmed, after he gets a call from the killer at 11:36 pm and witnesses a female survivor escape. Around the same time, each member of Creed starts getting attacked by the killer while their respective girlfriends quickly flee, only for them and Dewey to realize that the band created the prank. The real killer calls Dewey again before he attacks him from above as the video cuts to black. The music video can be found in the home media releases of Scream 3.