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Where we take a look at the meaning and the origin of your favorite memes and trends!
Today we have a look at All Star!
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So this is a pretty interesting meme it has been used online in various ways over the
last decade and throughout that time has had different levels of popularity but recently
has had it’s biggest spike in popularity for a strange reason.
but before we can talk about today we must first understand yesterday!
So What exactly is All Star and what in the heck is somebody once told me?
All Star is the name of a popular Alternative Rock song that was released by the band smash
mouth in 1999.
You remember 1999, the year everybody freaked out because the y2k bug?
Yeah.
And “Somebody once told me” refers to the super catchy and memorable opening line
of the song that everybody and their mother, brother, sister, grandmother and even weird
uncle are familiar with.
The song had very prominent chart positions on music charts across the world when it was
released and has sold millions of albums for Smash Mouth Becoming one of their most successful
songs.
Everybody alive during that time was most likely familiar with the song, and if they
weren’t they soon would be over the next couple years when the song was used in multiple
films.
Most notably the first installment of the Shrek franchise!
The song was used in the intro of the film becoming a very memorable part.
So because of copyright reasons I’m gonna have to butcher the hell out of the song and
the clip from the movie, but it was something kinda like this.
“Somebody once told me the world is gonna rule me i aint the sharpest tool in the shed
she was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on”
We all know how much the internet loves shrek!
So it was only natural when nearly a decade later the song started to be used in humorous
ways online.
being parodied and brought into the meme world for a new generation to enjoy.
One of the first notable examples of a parody online came in April of 2009 when Youtuber
Richalvarez uploaded a super mario inspired parody of the song that I have to say, I wasn’t
Aware of before the video, but now absolutely love!
Over the years the song has continued to be remixed and parodied in a variety of humorous
and entertaining ways.
But the song hasn’t only been used in audio remixes.
In 2013 image based memes started to appear online that parodied the intro to the shrek
film.
In these examples the first image is calm and normal but as he continues the next line
of the song the following image is a bit more intense usually involving the opening of the
door or some dramatic action similar to shrek opening his door in the intro to the film.
Which itself has become very popular for it’s variety of short edits here on Youtube and
Vine.
And finally in October of 2016 one man has nearly single handily brought all stars popularity
shooting higher than it ever has!
On October 13th, 2016 Youtuber Jon Sudano uploaded a video in which he sung a cover
of all star over the music of John Lennon’s song “imagine”.
Somebody once told me the world is gonna rule me i aint the sharpest tool in the shed”
The Internet went crazy over the video, with it amassing nearly a million and a half views
in less than two months!
The attention that this video received saw jon’s channel gain a massive amount of subscribers!
And Since this success jon has continued to upload videos in which he sings all star over
various pop and rock tracks, proving just how versatile of a song all star is.
This recent spike in popularity has brought with it new edits of Allstar that are starting
to appear all over Youtube and something tells me there’s gonna be a whole lot more
So there you have it!
All Star started off as a song that many people recall from their childhood and has evolved
into a staple of the meme world that has a strange cult following.
But Hey!
That’s the internet for you!
And on the internet memes are keeeeng!
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