Originally published at: Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme | Boing Boing
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Pretty sure that’s not what the song is supposed to be about. If that’s your personal take-away, fine. Greg Camp has sole writing credits - he nor any of the other band members have ever indicated that it was anything more than a pop-punk anthem.
Also, let’s not forget that Smash Mouth performed a show at the Sturgis motorcycle rally at the height of the pandemic and said “Fuck this COVID shit!” to the crowd there.
Sorry/not-sorry, but this whole essay is a real stretch.
Edit: Apologies if this article was meant as satire, I’m not so sure after re-reading it.
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Somehow this is exactly the handwriting I expected Steve Harwell to have.
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Neat, legible and left-handed?
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It’s a very Discordian way of looking at it: a serious discussion, disguised as a joke, disguised as a serious essay.
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I was thinking “dynamic and expressive all-caps block lettering with excited strokes and terminals”. For all that, it is indeed impressively legible.
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The days really don’t stop coming…
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there came unto him a Messenger of Our Lady who entrusted to him a Rigoletto cigar box containing many filing cards, some of them in packs with rubber bands around, and upon these cards were sometimes written verses, while upon others nothing was written.
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You know, I actually liked their first album with Walking on The Sun on it.
Though I think my favorite song on there is actually Padrino. It’s fun, peppy, sort of an Italian Ska mash up.
Too bad he was a douche later in life.
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Out of curiosity, why did you have a soft spot for him? He was a COVID denier, and reportedly ended his last show with a nazi salute.
Way to go out on a low note…
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All snark and irony aside, Harwell was an anti-science anti-vax idiot.
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Lovely piece, Thom!
Disregarding the last few years, where he clearly went deep end both socially and in his addiction struggles, I guess I appreciated his earnestness in being kind of a derpy dude who wasn’t particularly talented and just got really lucky with his success. And that instead of trying to prove himself to anyone as a deep artist, he really just embraced the retro-mod cover songs later in the band’s career. There were delusions there about the reason for Smash Mouth’s existence (until the other delusions reared their heads).
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