| "Let's Go to the Mall" | ||||
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| Single by Robin Sparkles[a] | ||||
| from the album How I Met Your Music | ||||
| Released | September 4, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
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| Length | 3:16 | |||
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| Producer(s) | John Swihart | |||
| How I Met Your Mother singles chronology | ||||
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"Let's Go to the Mall" is a song written by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother. The song was performed by Canadian actress Cobie Smulders in the role of Robin Scherbatsky, who has a secret past of being a teenage Canadian pop star and adopted the stage name Robin Sparkles. Thomas and Bays originally came up with the idea and spent weeks developing the story with writer Kourtney Kang. The song was first featured in the form of a faux music video in the episode "Slap Bet" that aired on November 20, 2006, before the song was digitally released as a single on September 4, 2007. The track later appeared on the soundtrack album How I Met Your Music (2012).
"Let's Go to the Mall" is a teen pop song, in which Robin invites people to come to the shopping mall and have fun. The lyrics contain references to both the 1980s and Canadian culture, such as jelly bracelets, hockey player Wayne Gretzky and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. "Let's Go to the Mall" garnered generally positive reviews from both television and music critics, who praised its catchiness and humor. Several media publications listed it among the show's best musical sequences. It has sold 4,000 digital downloads in the United States as of August 2008, and the music video attracted more than 300,000 viewers on MySpace and the CBS official website. Robin Sparkles became a running gag throughout the show; Smulders later reprised the role in "Sandcastles in the Sand" (2008), "Glitter" (2010), and her alter-ego as Robin Daggers in "P.S. I Love You" (2013).
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