This Bonkers Mash-up Of ‘All Star’ And ‘Imagine’ Will Forever Change Your Life
This doesn't have any right to be this good.
As the saying goes: the Smash Mouth memes start coming and they don’t stop coming.
After all, it’s been 19 years since the release of the first Shrek film, the cinematic experience that forever changed our understanding of ‘All Star’. Sure, that song was originally written for superhero satire Mystery Men, but its reputation has always been intertwined with the success of cinema’s second greatest surly ogre (after Orson Welles, of course).
In fact, so inexhaustible is the well of Shrek memes, that we’re still getting delighted by mash-ups and remixes to this very day. Case in point? This brain-melting mash-up of ‘All Star’ and John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’, either the best or the worst thing that you’ll hear all day.
The song leans all in on the melancholy hopefulness of Lennon’s original, with re-recorded vocals that go straight for the heart. Basically, it’s the meme most likely to make you cry.
Listen to the whole thing in all its unstoppable glory here: