"Catchy Song" is the main theme song to the 2019 Warner Bros. Pictures film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. It is written by Jon Lajoie, produced by Dillon Francis, and sung by T-Pain and Lay Lay (credited on the soundtrack release as That Girl Lay Lay).[1]
The song is notable for its repeated lyric, "This song's gonna get stuck inside your... (3x) ...head!"[2][3]
Production[]
Following the same attempt to create an earworm with "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie, the producers of the film created the similar song for the sequel, which principally features the repeated phrase "This song's gonna get stuck inside your head!" for most of the song. According to Lajoie, he found that "Everything is Awesome" was "annoyingly catchy", and the only way that they could outdo that was "Dial the 'annoying' up to 11!".[4]
Use in film[]
The first use of the song in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part is in the scene where everyone in the music room being subjected to the song except Lucy dances to the song. To avoid getting "brainwashed", Lucy breaks one of the speakers and uses some of its pieces to build headphones for herself before escaping via air ducts. At the same time, the denizens of Harmony Town were singing it as Emmet and Rex try to escape from them.
The song is briefly sampled in the unhappy reprise of "Everything Is Awesome" ("Everything's Not Awesome"), only the song is "gonna get stuck inside your heart", as proclaimed by Lucy to bring back the hope of defeating Rex and restoring harmony.[citation needed]
The song also plays in its entirety in the credits after Super Cool.
Charts[]
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Weekly charts[]
| Chart (2019) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)[5] | 19 |
| US Kid Digital Songs (Billboard)[6] | 1 |
| US Rap Digital Songs (Billboard)[7] | 13 |
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Year-end charts[]
| Chart (2019) | Position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)[8] | 76 |
References[]
- ↑ Alexander, Bryan (January 18, 2019). "'Lego Movie 2' director apologizes to parents for 'Catchy Song' and future of repeat plays". USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2019/01/18/catchy-song-lego-movie-2-stuck-your-head/2614837002/. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- ↑ Murphy, Mekado. "‘The Lego Movie 2’: How ‘Catchy Song’ Got So Catchy", The New York Times, 2019-02-12. (in en-US)
- ↑ "'Lego Movie 2' director apologizes to parents for head-drilling 'Catchy Song'" (in en). https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2019/01/18/catchy-song-lego-movie-2-stuck-your-head/2614837002/.
- ↑ Jirak, Jamie (January 19, 2019). "'The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part' Teases The Song That Will Get Stuck Inside Your Head". Comicbook.com. https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/01/19/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part-teases-catchy-song/. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
- ↑ "Dillon Francis Chart History (Hot Dance/Electronic Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
- ↑ "Kid Digital Songs: February 23, 2019". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media Retrieved February 19, 2019.
- ↑ "Rap Digital Songs: February 23, 2019". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media Retrieved February 19, 2019.
- ↑ "Hot Dance/Electronic Songs – Year-End 2019". Billboard. https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2019/hot-dance-electronic--songs. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
External links[]
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| Films | The Lego Movie (2014) • The Lego Batman Movie (2017) • The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) • The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) |
| Video games | The Lego Movie Videogame • Lego Dimensions • The Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game • The Lego Movie 2 Videogame |
| Miscellaneous | Characters (Emmet Brickowski) • Songs ("Everything Is Awesome" • "Catchy Song") • The Lego Movie: 4D – A New Adventure • Unikitty! • List of Lego films and TV series |
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