Everything Is Awesome
"Everything Is Awesome" (stylized as "Everything Is AWESOME!!!") is a song by Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara featuring American comedy trio the Lonely Island. The theme song to the 2014 Warner Bros. Pictures film The Lego Movie, it was written by Shawn Patterson,[1] Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton,[2][3] and the Lonely Island. The single and pop version featured in the end credits of the movie were produced by Mark Mothersbaugh.[4]
"Everything Is Awesome"
January 27, 2014
2013
2:43
Shawn Patterson, JoLi, the Lonely Island
Shawn Patterson, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bartholomew
The version of "Everything Is Awesome" featured in The Lego Movie and promotional material for the movie was produced by Joshua Bartholomew and performed by Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton.[5]
On January 26, 2014, the song received its first US radio airplay via Anything Anything with Rich Russo on the WXPK, WRAT and WDHA radio stations.[6]
Music video[edit]
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.[7]
Reception[edit]
Commercial performance[edit]
"Everything Is Awesome" debuted at No. 11 on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, with 34,000 downloads in its first week.[8] It also charted at No. 11 on the Irish charts, and peaked at No. 35 on the Canadian Hot 100.[9] The song spent six consecutive weeks on the UK Singles and thirty-one on the UK Indie, peaking on both charts in early March at No. 17 and No. 2, respectively.[10][11] In the US Billboard Hot 100, the song charted No. 57.[12] The single had sold 418,000 copies in the United States by the end of June, 2014,[13] and became Gold certified at the end of that year. On July 14, 2017, it was certified Platinum, having sold more than 1,000,000 units since its release.[14]
Oscars performance[edit]
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 starring Tegan and Sara, the Lonely Island, 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).[15] Arnett wore the Batman costume originally worn by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film Batman Forever.[16]