History YMMV / SmashMouth

* HilariousInHindsight: ''Magic'', made in 2012, has a song called "Music/JustinBieber" themed around the band's seeming irrelevance, comparing them to other dead fads like high-top sneakers. Released at the height of the [[PeripheryHatedom the anti-Bieber hysteria]], it started with "[[AnyoneRememberPogs Whatever happened to Justin Bieber?]]/Was he all bad or was he left behind?" While Bieber went through an AudienceAlienatingEra thanks to his erratic behavior and the rise of Music/OneDirection taking a big chunk of his core fanbase, he would undergo a CareerResurrection in 2015 and has maintained a presence on the charts ever since.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''Magic'', made in 2012, has a song called "Music/JustinBieber" themed around the band's seeming irrelevance, comparing them to other dead fads like high-top sneakers. Released at the height of the Bieber's HypeBacklash, it started with "[[AnyoneRememberPogs Whatever happened to Justin Bieber?]]/Was he all bad or was he left behind?" While Bieber went through an AudienceAlienatingEra thanks to his erratic behavior and the rise of Music/OneDirection taking a big chunk of his core fanbase, he would undergo a CareerResurrection in 2015 and has maintained a presence on the charts ever since.

* SignatureSong: "All Star" obviously counts as this due to being their highest-charting hit on the ''Billboard Hot 100'' at #4, and being featured in a wildly successful [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 children's animated movie]] which certainly helped it garner MemeticMutation. Kids of TheNewTens are most likely to only know the band because of the memes that song spawned.

*** [[Creator/NeilCicierega people]] [[Music/SteveMillerBand call]] [[Creator/WillSmith me]] [[Film/WildWildWest the]] [[Music/{{Jamiroquai}} Space]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPhXKak_bHw Cowboy...]]

*** [[Creator/NeilCicierega people]] [[Music/SteveMillerBand call me]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPhXKak_bHw the Space Cowboy...]]

%%** @smashmouth eat the eggs
* OlderThanTheyThink: "All Star" was originally a successful hit for the group in 1999, but was widely forgotten until 2001. Also, while it ''was'' originally released to promote a movie, the film in question was not ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', but the less well-known CultClassic ''Film/MysteryMen''.

* FaceOfTheBand: Steve Harwell was the lead vocalist for many years. Although their hits were written by former guitarist Greg Camp. Zach Goode (lead singer for Divided By Zero, Ghoulspoon and The Secret Seven) would eventually take Harwell's place, with the announcement made official on January 2022.

* OlderThanTheyThink: "All Star" was originally a successful hit for the group in 1999, but was widely forgotten until 2001. Also, while it ''was'' originally released to promote a movie, the film in question was not ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', but the less well-known CultClassic ''Film/MysteryMen''.

** "All Star" has become well known among ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'''s parodic "Brogre" fandom.

*** [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} BODY]] once told me the world is gonna roll me... [[labelnote:Explanation]]The opening lines to the song, usually accompanied by someone slamming a door open in reference to the opening scene of ''Shrek''. The above format where "Some" is isolated is popular when quoting the opening in posts.[[/labelnote]]

* SignatureSong: "All Star" obviously counts as this due to being their highest-charting hit on the ''Billboard Hot 100'' at #4, and being featured in a wildly successful [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} children's animated movie]] which certainly helped it garner MemeticMutation. Kids of TheNewTens are most likely to only know the band because of the memes that song spawned.
* SongAssociation: Try not to talk about the band without thinking about ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''.

%%** @smashmouth eat the eggs

*** "Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming [[OverlyLongGag and they don't stop coming]]..." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Extending the above lyric of "All Star" so the section that says "and they don't stop coming" [[BrokenRecord never stops coming]].[[/labelnote]]

* TearJerker: Steve Harwell apparently turned to alcoholism following the death of his son in 2001, leading to increasing health issues that would cumulate in infamous performances such as the Taste of Fort Collins concert mentioned above and an even worse performance at a New York venue more recently in October 2021, where Steve would spend most of the setlist drunkenly berating and threatening audience members, mumbling gibberish into the microphone, and barely even making an effort to perform with the rest of the band. This soon resulted in Harwell's retirement from music altogether barely a week after.

** @smashmouth eat the eggs

* WereStillRelevantDammit:
** In 2012, they released their seventh album, ''Magic'', featuring a song named after Music/JustinBieber. It gained little to no notability aside from [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks a mixed review from Allmusic]].
** They topped themselves with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LSBrccSbBI Love is a Soldier]]", which is an [=EDM=] song. It worked as well as one would expect.

*** And then taken {{up to eleven}} when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey5GItze-BY one of the memes]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vms3LvONyWM became]]'' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_mjweL7fdc a meme]]!!''

* FaceOfTheBand: Steve Harwell was the lead vocalist for many years. Although their hits were written by former guitarist Greg Camp.

* TearJerker: Steve Harwell apparently turned to alcoholism following the death of his son in 2001, leading to increasing health issues that would cumulate in infamous performances such as the Taste of Fort Collins concert mentioned above and an even worse performance at a New York venue more recently in October 2021, where Steve would spend most of the setlist drunkenly berating and threatening audience members, mumbling gibberish into the microphone, and barely even making an effort to perform with the rest of the band. This soon resulted in Harwell's retirement from music altogether barely a week after. Zach Goode (lead singer for Divided By Zero, Ghoulspoon and The Secret Seven) would eventually take Harwell's place on January 2022.

* TearJerker: Steve Harwell apparently turned to alcoholism following the death of his son in 2001, leading to increasing health issues that would cumulate in infamous performances such as the Taste of Fort Collins concert mentioned above and an even worse performance at a New York venue more recently in October 2021, where Steve would spend most of the setlist drunkenly berating and threatening audience members, mumbling gibberish into the microphone, and barely even making an effort to perform with the rest of the band. This soon resulted in Harwell's retirement from music altogether barely a week after.