Smash Mouth is an American rock band formed in 1994 consisting of 4 original members. Their most successful song is "All Star" released in 1999, which is upbeat, catchy and their most well-loved. Their music has been described as alternative rock, ska punk, surf rock and pop rock. They are best known for their albums "All Star" and "Astro Lounge" and their music video for "All Star" which humorously relates to the song lyrics through unusual costumes, characters and locations.

2. Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth are an American rock band from California, they were formed in
1994.
Steve Harwell, Kevin Coleman, Greg Camp and Paul De Lisle are the 4 members of
this band and are all the original members.
There most successful and recognisable song has to be ‘All Star’ which was
released in 1999.
It is up beat, funny, catchy and was definitely their most successful and well loved
songs.
Their genres of music have been described as:
• Alternative Rock
• Ska Punk
• Surf Rock
• Pop Rock

3. Albums
These are their most famous albums, we used the covers of the albums to collect a theme
And a base to work off, copying the house styles with the bright colours and funky text
For the titles of the albums we gathered a pretty good idea of what we wanted ours to
look like.

4. All Star
All Star’s music video is known for its humorous unrealistic
Storyline, by usuing unusual characters, costumes and locations
They have created a comedic and affective music video which
Directly relates to the lyrics and shows off their style and
Unique music.
In the screenshots from the music video on the right there are
Clear things to identify, at the very top you can see a clear bright
Unusual costume which straight away gives major clues that this
Video is not going to be sad or negative in any way, they have
Also used a famous actor to appear in their video, Ben Stiller
Is a world wide famous face and is well loved, they must have
Used him to get publicity and popularity.
Their lyrics correlate to the video as part of one of the verse
Says ‘She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her
Thumb in the shape of an ‘L’ on her forehead. Well you can see
In the 3rd image there is quite clearly a young boy relating to
Those lyrics which is what we would like to incorporate into our
Music video.

5. In these screenshots below, you can see how the band have used intertextuality to relate
Their song to the movie ‘Shrek’ just as we plan to do in our video.
These images are from the other hit song from Shrek ‘Im a believer’.
All Star and many of Smash Mouths songs have been replicated, covered and remixed.
Smash Mouths songs are easy to work with which is why our song choice will be great
To work with, we can put our own spin on it and create a new meaning from the humour
Already coming from the lyrics.