10 Songs You Know From The First SECOND
4. All star - Smash Mouth
And now we've finally arrived. The one song that has become the soundtrack for all of the meme-y boys and girls across the entire Internet. Even with years of hindsight behind it, how the hell does a song like All Star register in the public consciousness as the bud of every single joke? Well...it all started when somebody once tell me that the world was going to roll me...
Kidding aside, there is still a legitimate reason why All Star is still known as the most recognizable song amongst the Internet. In the age when the Internet was just starting to be born, the next generation getting acclimatized to the digital age was brought up on some of the wackiest of children's media, with Shrek being the prime candidate for classic territory. Though you could say it's a part of the past, that nostalgia bug has stuck around long enough to infiltrate a specific niche of Internet trolldom.
I mean, if you really think about it, there is probably no one in the world who would really care about a band like Smash Mouth if they weren't occupying such a large presence thanks to that now classic intro. These bros might not have been the sharpest tools in the shed, but the inherent goofiness behind a song like this has made it evergreen for years now.