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Shrek Skyrocketed Smash Mouth Into A Different World, The Band Says
If Smash Mouth hadn t agreed to license All Star for Dreamworks Shrek, they would ve looked kind of dumb with their finger and their thumb in the shape of an L on their foreheads.
Memes come and go by the week and even by the day. But even though the years started coming and they didn t stop coming, both the film Shrek and Smash Mouth s megahit All Star have stayed around, working across age groups and demographics. In a new interview, the band talked to Rolling Stone about how the song and its addition to Shrek came about and how it changed the band forever.