Everything Is Awesome

"Everything Is Awesome"
Single by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island
from the album The Lego Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
ReleasedJanuary 27, 2014
Recorded2013
Genre
Length2:43
LabelWaterTower
Songwriter(s)Shawn Patterson, JoLi, the Lonely Island
Producer(s)Shawn Patterson, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bartholomew
Tegan and Sara singles chronology
"Goodbye, Goodbye"
(2013) 		"Everything Is Awesome"
(2014) 		"Boyfriend"
(2016)
The Lonely Island singles chronology
"Spell It Out"
(2013) 		"Everything Is Awesome"
(2014) 		"When Will the Bass Drop"
(2014)

"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]

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]

  1. ^ Shawn Patterson (February 14, 2014). Everything Is Awesome - Shawn Patterson (Unplugged) surprise performance (HD) (Motion). Warner Bros.Pictures: Warner Bros. Pictures/Ryan Halpern. Event occurs at 0:11. Retrieved January 12, 2015. Shawn Patterson, who wrote the music and lyrics for the hit song from The Lego Movie "Everything Is Awesome", surprises a crowd of WB employees with his unplugged rendition of the song at a conference room celebration.
  2. ^ "SOCAN presents first-ever film & TV No. 1 Song Award to Josh Bartholomew. theme". March 8, 2014. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  3. ^ "ALLMUSIC Credits". February 4, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  4. ^ Brown, August (February 11, 2014). "Everything is awesome, indeed, for Mark Mothersbaugh". LA Times. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  5. ^ "ALLMUSIC Credits". February 4, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  6. ^ [1] "Playlists for 1/26/14"