The Lonely Island Debuts Two Very Humble Singles From ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’
By Ethan Anderton/May 10, 2016 9:30 am EST
There’s the catchy “I’m So Humble” featuring Adam Levine accompanying Andy Samberg as rapper Connor4Real, and it’s all about just how modest the chart-topping, influential rapper is. And there’s also “Mona Lisa” which boldly declares the classic painting by Leonardo Da Vinci as an “overrated piece of shit.”
Listen to the new Lonely Island Popstar songs after the jump.
“I’m So Humble” is one of my favorite songs from the soundtrack, if only because it’s so catchy and well-produced. The music sound like something you would easily hear on the radio today, for better or worse, and that’s what helps make the comedy so genuine. How can you go wrong with a line like, “The thing about me that’s so impressive is how infrequently I mention all of my successes.”
The full soundtrack will be released once the movie gets closer, and there will be songs on it that aren’t even in the movie, though there’s no release date just yet. At a livestreamed Q&A from an advanced screening at Alamo Drafthouse locations, the trio revealed there’s plenty of songs that got cut, including another track with Akon after The Lonely Island previously collaborated with the rapper for “I Just Had Sex.” The soundtrack will also get a vinyl release sometime down the road.
Watch the red band trailer for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping right here.
The latest comedy from blockbuster producer Judd Apatow (Trainwreck, Superbad, Knocked Up) co-stars Sarah Silverman, Tim Meadows and Maya Rudolph and many of the biggest names in comedy and music in cameo performances. Co-directed by Schaffer and Taccone and written by The Lonely Island trio, Popstar is also produced by Rodney Rothman (producer of Get Him to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall; co-writer of 22 Jump Street), as well as Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone.
Universal Pictures’ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is headlined by musical digital-shorts superstars Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, collectively known as The Lonely Island. The comedy goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real (Samberg) faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he’s no longer the dopest star of all.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping opens June 3.
