Smash Mouth’s “All Star” is the stuff of internet legend, but it didn’t start out that way. Following the success of their previous hit “Walkin’ on the Sun,” Smash Mouth needed another banger to head up their newest album, Astro Lounge. The band’s manager explicitly told Smash Mouth that the album needed a single, and so songwriter and guitarist Greg Camp set out to make just that. Using the letters of bullied fans as inspiration, Camp wrote “All Star” for the purportedly “85 to 90 percent” of fans that needed the anthemic pick-me-up.
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