I'm Not A Loser

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From the opening of "I'm Not A Loser", performed in Chicago, 2016

song name I'm Not a Loser
artist They Might Be Giants
releases SpongeBob SquarePants: The New Musical (Original Cast Recording)
year 2016
run time 4:38
sung by Gavin Lee


Trivia/Info

That was a very easy gig; we were super lucky. We were given a very straightforward assignment: Pick a character, write a song about [them]. I had watched my share of SpongeBob when my son was growing up, so I knew the show pretty intimately. And we were doubly lucky in that Jonathan Coulton was the supervisor for the project, so he was someone who I was fairly confident that I could give him the song and he'll know exactly what to do.


The original demo ends with the suggestion of a clarinet solo because the character of Squidward actually does play the clarinet on the show, and I'm a very pro-clarinet booster, so I [thought], “We need to get the clarinet in there.” And the production was astonishing! We were so lucky they came up with the tap dance routine for Squidward, which was a pyrotechnic idea of having a four-legged creature tap dance. We were blessed, and we met [Gavin], and he said, "Thank you for the gift," and we said, “No, no, it's the gift you have given us." "Well, we're exchanging gifts. Let's just leave it at that."

Song Themes

Animals, Cartoons, Loneliness, Mental Illness, Misanthropy, Music, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Relatives

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