"Everything Is Awesome" is the theme song to the 2014 Warner Bros. Pictures film The Lego Movie. It was written by Shawn Patterson,[1] Jo Li,[2][3] and The Lonely Island. The single and pop version featured in the end credits of the movie was produced by Mark Mothersbaugh[4] and performed by Tegan and Sara in collaboration with The Lonely Island. The version of "Everything Is Awesome" featured in The Lego Movie scene, official trailer,[5] TV spots,[6][7][8] video game, and featurette[9] was produced by Bartholomew[10] and performed by Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton under the name Jo Li. A third version appears in The Lego Batman Movie, performed by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine. On January 26, 2014, the song received its first US radio airplay via Anything Anything with Rich Russo on WXPK-FM, WRAT-FM and WDHA-FM.[11] Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara said in a Billboard interview: We want to be a "serious" musical band, while also being humorous people, but this was so adorable, and the movie looked great, and the opportunity to do something with Mark Mothersbaugh and the Lonely Island ... it was sort of a no-brainer, and it's turned out to be this really cool moment.
We feel like it was a win-win. In an interview to Fox News, Mark Mothersbaugh says the song "was supposed to be like mind control early in the film. It's totally irritating, this kind of mindless mantra to get people up and working." The music video features Lego versions of Tegan and Sara as well as The Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone. Parts of the video were made using brickfilming. "Everything is Awesome" debuted at No. 7 on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, with 34,000 downloads in its first week (Nielsen SoundScan) and 11 on the Irish Charts. It also charted 35 on the Canadian Hot 100. The song charted 17 on the UK Charts and charted 3 on the UK Indie. In the US Billboard Hot 100, the song charted 57.[15] As of June 2014, the single had sold 418,000 copies in the United States. International Business Times described the song as a parody of creeping fascism, saying that the song "seems little more than an infectiously catchy parody of watered-down radio pop, right down to the faux-dubstep breakdown.
There’s a lot more happening under the surface, however." As one of the songs nominated for Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars, "Everything is Awesome" was performed as a large-scale musical number featuring not only Tegan and Sara and The Lonely Island, but also on-stage appearances by Mothersbaugh (paying homage to his 1970s group Devo by wearing a LEGO version of the distinctive Devo energy dome), DJ Questlove, and comic actor Will Arnett dressed as Batman (in the film, Arnett provides the voice of Batman and sings the mocking heavy metal composition "Untitled Self Portrait", an excerpt of which was incorporated into the "Everything Is Awesome" performance).[18] According to LEGO Movie co-director Christopher Miller, for this on-stage appearance, Arnett wore the Batman costume originally worn by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film Batman Forever.[19] Arnett also lip-synced to the song on the Reality TV Show Lip Sync Battle, while dressed as Emmet, the character voiced by Chris Pratt in The Lego Movie.
^ [1] "Playlists for 1/26/14" ^ a b 'The Lego Movie': Why Tegan & Sara Went Chirpy for 'Everything Is Awesome' (Video). ^ Devo lead singer dishes on creating catchy 'Lego' song. ^ How 'The Lego Movie' And 'Everything Is Awesome' Parody Creeping Everyday Fascism. ^ WATCH: ‘Everything is Awesome’ at the Oscars Thanks to Will Arnett’s Batman and Oprah, Variety. accessed February 25, 2015 ^ Nick Romano, Will Arnett Wore A Piece Of Batman History At The Oscars. ^ ARIA Australian Top 40 Digital Tracks | Australia's Official Top 40 Digital Downloads. ^ "Tegan and Sara – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Tegan and Sara. Retrieved February 23, 2014. ^ "Chart Track: Week 09, 2014". Retrieved February 24, 2014. ^ ".nz – Tegan And Sara feat. The Lonely Island – Everything Is Awesome". ^ "Archive Chart: March 1, 2014". Scottish Singles Top 40. ^ "1, 2014/ Archive Chart: March 1, 2014" UK Singles Chart. ^ "1, 2014/ Archive Chart: March 1, 2014" UK Indie Chart.
^ "Tegan and Sara – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Tegan and Sara. ^ Comedy Digital Tracks : Feb 15, 2014. ^ Hot Dance/Electronic Songs : Mar 1, 2014. ^ Tegan and Sara - Chart history for Heatseekers Songs. . Retrieved February 23, 2014. ^ If necessary, click, then click, then select, then clickLego told 'everything is not awesome' in viral Greenpeace video. Retrieved January 28, 2015.When Oscar nominations for this year's Best Animation Feature were announced on Thursday, the film about the beloved toys was nowhere to be found. That's ridiculous," tweeted Steven Zeitchik, Entertainment Writer for the Los Angeles Times. He's got a point. "The Lego Movie," while being a goofy animated movie (and some would say advertisement) about legos, was one of the year's biggest box office hits. It also won over a lot of movie goers and critics. The film grossed $257 million and holds a 96% fresh rating on movie review site Rotten Tomatoes. Not only does the film have a bigger box office total than the whole Best Picture nominee slate combined, it has a higher review score than last year's Best Animated Feature winner, "Frozen."
The films that were nominated over "Lego Movie" were "Big Hero 6," "The Boxtrolls," "How to Train Your Dragon 2," "Song of the Sea," and "The Tale of The Princess Kaguya." The semi-outrage on social media was almost immediate. "I do think some of the Academy voters have Legos for brains in that the Lego Movie wasn't nominated for Best Animated Film," tweeted "Guardians of the Galaxy" director James Gunn. Yet, the creators of the film took the snub in stride. "This is not a tragedy," one of the film's directors, Philip Lord, wrote on Twitter. "Congrats to incredible crew and cast of The Lego Movie, who made a classic." Lord also tweeted out a photo of a Lego Oscar statue saying, "It's okay. The movie did not go without any nominations, however. The film's original song, "Everything is Awesome," earned a nod for Best Song. The Oscars will be shown on ABC on February 22.As with last year's Best Original Song nominees, the Academy's 79-song list of potential nods was not a very good indicator of what would actually make the cut.
Although names like Lorde, Lana Del Rey and Coldplay popped out as possible winners, voters opted for a diverse mix of pop and classic songwriting verve this year. Coldplay, Lorde Make Best Original Song Oscar Shortlist Watch the Band Perry's Grammy-Nominated Glen Campbell Cover Common, Ne-Yo Go Green on Hip-Hop Benefit Album Accordingly, the tunes that are up for Academy Awards this year span feel-good Lego party ragers, tender, acoustic love ballads and moving tributes to history. And the performers are just as wide-ranging, with comedians rapping, country legends offering up their final tunes and Adam Levine putting a new spin on Adam Levine. The winner will be announced during the Oscars ceremony, which will air on February 22nd at 7 p.m. EST on ABC (see the rest of the nominations here), but until then, listen to the nominations for Best Original Song below. "Everything Is AWESOME!!!," by Tegan and Sara feat. the Lonely Island The Lego Movie When Tegan and Sara recorded the Lego Movie anthem, one of the recording technicians told singer Tegan Quin that it sounded like she was screaming.
"I am!" she said, which explains why she was all the more surprised to hear her voice over the giddy synth explosion that is the song over the end credits. But there's just something about the sheer joy in her voice, as well as the other singers, that made the song one of the catchiest movie tunes this year. Written by songwriter Shawn Patterson and-co-produced by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, the overwhelming ebullience of the whole thing (not to overlook the bonkers rap by the Lonely Island) seems to prove that indeed "everything is cool when you're part of a team." "Glory," by Common and John Legend Selma Common and John Legend's soulful Selma song recalls some of the most important moments of the Civil Rights movement from Rosa Parks to the protest marches that followed the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last year. When the pair won Best Original Song for a motion picture at the Golden Globes earlier this year, Common spoke to the transformative power of working on a movie like Selma, which chronicles the march Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
"The first day I stepped on the set of Selma, I began to feel like this was bigger than a movie," Common said. After comparing himself to the "black woman who was denied the right to vote" and "the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand but instead was given a bullet," he explained that "Selma has awakened my humanity." The song dramatically shows that humanity, as Legend sings, "The war isn't over, victory isn't won/but we'll fight on to the finish." "Grateful," by Rita Ora Beyond the Lights Perhaps the biggest surprise from the Oscar nomination announcement was this Rita Ora track, a soundtrack song that was on hardly anybody's radar leading into Thursday morning. However, given the song's provenance, an Oscar nod should've been a shoo-in: Songwriter Diane Warren, who has been nominated six times in the Best Original Song category – including Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing," LeAnn Rimes's "How Do I Live" and Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" – also penned "Grateful," the featured song from the soundtrack of a film most people probably didn't even know was released until it popped up in the Best Original Song category.
Warren has never won the Oscar in her previous six nominations, so it's doubtful seventh time is a charm. "I'm Not Gonna Miss You," by Glen Campbell Glen Campbell... Glen Campbell's devastating ballad – the last song the country music legend will ever release – was easily the sentimental pick leading into Academy Award nominations. The song, like I'll Be Me, details Campbell's longtime struggle with Alzheimer's. "You're the last person I will love/You're the last face I will recall/And best of all/I'm not gonna miss you," Campbell sings on the truly poignant song. Sadly, Campbell's disease has progressed to the point where he's been admitted into a special care facility, meaning it's very unlikely he would attend the Academy Awards. "Lost Stars," by Adam Levine Begin Again No Best Original Song is more critical to the film it derives from than "Lost Stars": This track, co-written by the New Radicals' Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood, is crucial to Begin Again's plot, as the song's success within the film is what propels much of the action.