Yes, the truth is out there as Vice questioned Smash Mouth about "All Star"'s bizarre, mid-song detour into climate change and the O-Zone Layer. "I set out to write more of a self affirmation song ...

Smash Mouth’s Steve Harwell, who died Monday at 56, predicted that “All Star” would be popular for years. “Shrek” helped make it the earworm and meme it became.

In the case of “All Star,” this process kept an old track alive for years and led to gigs like the band performing a snippet of the song on a Progressive insurance ad in 2020. All of that ...