All the Small Things
{{Short description|1999 single by Blink-182}}
{{About|the song|the BBC television series|All the Small Things (TV series)}}
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| name = All the Small Things
| cover = Blink-182 - All the Small Things cover.jpg
| caption = Cover used for the US CD single release. Other editions were released using various alternate shots.
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| type = single
| artist = Blink-182
| album = Enema of the State
| B-side =
- "M+Ms" (US)
- "Dumpweed" (live) (worldwide)
| released = {{start date|1999|9|28}}
| recorded = January–March 1999{{cite AV media notes|url=http://stan-47.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/8/9/4889340/523186_orig.jpg?155|title=Enema of the State|author=Blink-182|year=1999|type=Promo CD liner notes|publisher=MCA Records|location=United States|id=UMD-9991|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144226/http://stan-47.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/8/9/4889340/523186_orig.jpg?155|archive-date=April 2, 2015|access-date=December 26, 2022}}
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| genre =
- Pop-punk
- power pop{{cite magazine | last=Chonin | first=Neva| title=Enema Of The State | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=July 9, 2003 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/enema-of-the-state-105816/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Myers |first1=Katherine |title=The History Of Pop Music In 5 Defining Decades |url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/the-history-of-pop-music-in-5-defining-decades/ |website=Culture Trip |access-date=May 23, 2022 |date=July 19, 2016 |quote=pop rock and power pop were making a comeback in the sounds of Blink 182's "All the Small Things", opening up a gate for the musicians that would come to be pivotal within the pop-punk genre... |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017145522/https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/the-history-of-pop-music-in-5-defining-decades/ |url-status=live }}
- pop rock
- alternative rock{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/featured/best-alt-rock-songs-1999-list/2/|title=The Best 69 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1999|date=July 25, 2019|website=Spin|access-date=October 8, 2019|archive-date=July 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701194534/https://www.spin.com/featured/best-alt-rock-songs-1999-list/2/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://consequence.net/2017/07/ranking-every-alternative-rock-hit-from-worst-to-best/15/|title=Ranking: Every Alternative Rock No. 1 Hit from Worst to Best|date=July 5, 2017|website=Consequence of Sound|access-date=March 14, 2020|archive-date=August 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805015854/https://consequence.net/2017/07/ranking-every-alternative-rock-hit-from-worst-to-best/15/|url-status=live}}
| length = 2:48
| label = MCA
| writer =
| producer = Jerry Finn
| prev_title = What's My Age Again?
| prev_year = 1999
| next_title = Adam's Song
| next_year = 2000
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|9Ht5RZpzPqw|"All the Small Things"}}}}
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"All the Small Things" is a song by American rock band Blink-182. It was the second single and eighth track released from the band's third album, Enema of the State (1999). The track was composed primarily by guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge as an ode to his then girlfriend. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jerry Finn, the song was created with the intention of shipping it to radio, as the trio felt they needed a "really catchy and basic" single.
The single was released to radio on September 28, 1999, and promptly charted worldwide, becoming a number one hit on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart, and crossing over to pop radio and peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot 100. It was physically released as a single on January 18, 2000. The song remains the band's most successful single to date, being their only song to enter the top 40. The song charted within the top 20 in ten other countries, and gained greater significance due to its accompanying music video, which parodies videos by boy bands such as Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, and NSYNC as well as videos by pop singers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. The video was popular in rotation on MTV's Total Request Live, leading to criticism from those who felt their basis for parody was thin.
"All the Small Things" was selected by Rolling Stone as one of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs",{{cite web|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2000/nov/19/mtv_rolling_stone/|title=MTV, Rolling Stone list top 100 pop songs since 1963|work=Lawrence Journal-World|date=November 19, 2000|access-date=December 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427151453/http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2000/nov/19/mtv_rolling_stone/|archive-date=April 27, 2012|url-status=dead}} and is listed in the 2010 book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
Background
By the end of the 1990s, Blink-182 were on their way to becoming one of the biggest rock bands of the turn of the century. The trio—composed of vocalist/guitarist Tom DeLonge, vocalist/bassist Mark Hoppus, and new addition drummer Travis Barker—had come up playing in Southern Californian punk clubs and on the Warped Tour festival circuit. Their penchant for off-color humor and fast-paced punk rock had caught the interest of Universal Music Group, which signed the band to its MCA label. With a higher budget and assistance from the veteran engineer Jerry Finn—who mixed Green Day's Dookie (1994)—the band set out to make their next album, which came to be called Enema of the State.
"All the Small Things" can be traced back to when the trio first began developing songs for the album at their rehearsal space at DML Studios in their hometown of San Diego, California. DeLonge had just bought his first home there, and bought two to three thousand dollars worth of foam padding to insulate his room. By this point, most of the tracks on Enema of the State had been written, but DeLonge felt the album needed "just one song that was really catchy and basic."{{cite journal| last =Browne | first =Nichola | date = November 20, 2005| title = Punk Rock! Nudity! Filthy Sex! Tom DeLonge Looks Back On Blink-182's Greatest Moments| journal = Kerrang!| issue = 1083| publisher = Bauer Media Group| location =London | issn =0262-6624 }} "I remember thinking, 'The label's gonna want a song for the radio – so here's one,'" said DeLonge. "It was obvious from the beginning it would fit that format."{{cite journal| last =Allsworth| first =Steve| date =May 30, 2006| title =US Punk: Blink-182| journal =Total Guitar| pages = 70–71| publisher =Future Publishing | location =Bath, United Kingdom| issn =1355-5049 }} DeLonge had wanted to write a track including "na na na's" as an ode to one of his favorite bands, the Ramones. Early demos listed it as "Ramones-style song",{{cite journal|title=Blink-182: Inside Enema|pages=24–25|date=September 16, 2015|journal=Kerrang!|issue=1586}} and the original working title of the track was "Babycakes-Buttermuffin".{{cite web|url=https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/music/2019/7/31/20747150/blink-182-enema-of-the-state|title=Don't Grow Up, Blow Up: The Rise of Blink-182|first=Alan|last=Siegel|website=The Ringer|date=July 31, 2019|access-date=July 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731195305/https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/music/2019/7/31/20747150/blink-182-enema-of-the-state|archive-date=July 31, 2019|url-status=live}}
DeLonge wrote the track about his girlfriend Jennifer Jenkins, to whom he was later married from 2001 to 2019.{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1218479,00.html|title=Blink-182 Rocker & Wife Welcome a Son|last=Gee|first=Alyson|date=August 16, 2006|work=People|access-date=December 30, 2010|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071152/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1218479,00.html|url-status=dead}} The lyrics "She left me roses by the stairs / Surprises let me know she cares" are based on a time Jenkins did just that after DeLonge returned home late from recording.{{cite book |last=DeLonge |first=Tom |title=Blink-182: The Mark Tom and Travis Show 2000 Official Program|year=2000 |publisher=MCA Records |page = 17}}
{{cquote|It was one of the last songs we recorded, because it was [so] simple it wasn't that much fun to play. But once we put it all together and played it as a band we all looked at each other and said, 'This song's huge!' [...] Once we recorded this song and heard it, it gave us the chills. We just looked at each other and knew we had this little piece of magic. We knew that thing was going to be a gigantic thing, I don't know how, but we just felt it straight away.Shooman, 2010. p. 74-75}}
Composition
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"All the Small Things" is credited to Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus. Though Barker helped write the songs on Enema of the State, only Hoppus and DeLonge received songwriting credits, as Barker was technically a hired musician, not yet an official band member.{{sfn|Barker|Edwards|2015|p=119}} The song is two minutes and forty-eight seconds long. The song is composed in the key of C major and is set in time signature of common time with a driving tempo of 150 beats per minute. DeLonge's vocal range spans from G4 to F5.{{cite web|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0065560#ProductDetails|title=Blink-182 All the Small Things – Digital Sheet Music|work=Music Notes|date=May 19, 2008|publisher=EMI Music Publishing|access-date=April 24, 2023|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602220136/https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0065560#ProductDetails|url-status=live}} The guitar riff for the song cycles around chords C major,{{Cite web|last1=Mark|first1=Hoppus|last2=Tom|first2=Delonge|last3=Travis|first3=Barker|last4=Blink-182|date=May 19, 2008|title=All the Small Things|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0065560|access-date=June 2, 2021|website=Musicnotes.com|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602220136/https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0065560|url-status=live}} F and G (I, IV and V in C), a familiar chord progression. The texture on the track is due to several overdubs playing various inversions and extensions of the main chords. The bass guitar stays on C while the guitars move to F, creating a 2nd inversion chord.{{cite journal| last =Allsworth| first =Steve| date =May 30, 2006| title =Learn to Play "All the Small Things"| journal =Total Guitar| page = 90| publisher =Future Publishing | location =Bath, United Kingdom| issn =1355-5049 }} The song utilizes short lyrical phrases in each verse, sometimes only four to five syllables.{{cite web | last=Walthall | first=Catherine | title=Behind the Meaning of "All The Small Things" by Blink-182 | website=American Songwriter | date=August 16, 2022 | url=https://americansongwriter.com/meaning-all-the-small-things-blink-182-song-lyrics/ | access-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425010743/https://americansongwriter.com/meaning-all-the-small-things-blink-182-song-lyrics/ | url-status=live }}
Reception
"All the Small Things" introduced Blink-182 to new listeners on a mass scale.{{cite magazine | last=Greene | first=Andy| title=Flashback: Blink-182 Perform 'What's My Age Again?' in 2000 | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=June 6, 2019 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/blink-182-perform-whats-my-age-again-2000-845096/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} "This was the song that took the band from theaters and clubs into arenas", observed Andy Greene at Rolling Stone.{{cite magazine | last=Greene | first=Andy | title=Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Blink-182 Songs | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=May 4, 2016 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-blink-182-songs-69463/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} It has been credited with popularizing pop-punk in the mainstream.{{cite web | last=Directo | first=Denny | title=7 Things You Didn't Know About Blink-182's 'All The Small Things' | website=Entertainment Tonight | date=January 20, 2015 | url=https://www.etonline.com/music/156561_7_things_you_didn_t_know_about_blink_182_all_the_small_things | access-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425010744/https://www.etonline.com/music/156561_7_things_you_didn_t_know_about_blink_182_all_the_small_things | url-status=live }} Initial critical reviews were positive. Q called the song "one of those power-pop tunes that the Americans get so right," joking, "[it] has more hooks than the Fishing Channel." Gavin Edwards of Rolling Stone termed it an "irresistible pop-punk anthem,"{{cite magazine | last=Edwards | first=Gavin| title=How Blink-182 Went to the Top of the Charts By Keeping Their Minds in the Gutter | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=January 20, 2000 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/how-blink-182-went-to-the-top-of-the-charts-by-keeping-their-minds-in-the-gutter-114039/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} while it was labeled "a pop punk watershed" by Jonah Weiner of Blender. Steve Appleford at the Los Angeles Times praised the song as "angsty, juvenile, endearingly cute and loaded with irresistible hooks,"{{cite web | last=Appleford | first=Steve | title=Blink-182 were goof-punks with cute videos. Twenty years later, they're having the last laugh | website=Los Angeles Times | date=September 11, 2019 | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-09-11/blink-182-nine-album-20th-anniversary | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=September 12, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912044835/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-09-11/blink-182-nine-album-20th-anniversary | url-status=live }} while Mikael Wood, writing for the same publication, observed that the tune "deliver[s] a potent mixture of humor and melancholy, hope and resignation."{{cite web | last=Wood | first=Mikael | title=What's their age again? Eternally raucous | website=Los Angeles Times | date=September 19, 2009 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-19-et-blink182-19-story.html | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424215951/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-19-et-blink182-19-story.html | url-status=live }}
The song is now widely viewed as cross-generational classic.{{cite web | title=Weezer Share New Song "California Snow": Listen | website=Pitchfork | date=September 20, 2018 | url=https://pitchfork.com/news/weezer-share-new-song-california-snow-listen/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 11, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411125230/https://pitchfork.com/news/weezer-share-new-song-california-snow-listen/ | url-status=live }}{{cite web | last=Heaney | first=Gregory | title=blink-182 - Icon Album Reviews, Songs & More | website=AllMusic | date=March 19, 2013 | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/icon-mw0002485892 | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424214449/https://www.allmusic.com/album/icon-mw0002485892 | url-status=live }}{{cite magazine | title=The 50 Best Deep Cuts of 1999 | magazine=Billboard | date=April 11, 2019 | url=https://www.billboard.com/media/lists/the-50-best-deep-cuts-of-1999-8506678/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} Maeve McDermott, for USA Today, called it the band's defining hit.{{cite web | last=McDermott | first=Maeve | title=The definitive list of best 'NOW That's What I Call Music!' albums | website=USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today | date=August 1, 2018 | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/08/01/definitive-list-best-now-thats-what-call-music-albums/850383002/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=August 8, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808065730/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/08/01/definitive-list-best-now-thats-what-call-music-albums/850383002/ | url-status=live }} Steven Hyden, writing for now-defunct culture website Grantland, said "I've come to view Blink as arguably the best radio singles band of its era; songs like "All the Small Things" stand the test of time as ace pop tunes."{{cite web | last=Hyden | first=Steven | title=The Ballad of Blink-182: Why They Can't (or Won't) Break Up | website=Grantland | date=January 28, 2015 | url=https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-ballad-of-blink-182-why-they-cant-or-wont-break-up/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424214449/https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-ballad-of-blink-182-why-they-cant-or-wont-break-up/ | url-status=live }} Amanda Petrusich, in a piece analyzing the band's longevity for The New Yorker, writes: "[Blink's] finest moments are barked in aggrieved-teen shorthand, like this verse from "All the Small Things": 'Late night / Come home / Work sucks / I know.'"{{cite magazine | title=Reviving the Pop-Punk Innocence of Blink-182 | magazine=The New Yorker | date=August 4, 2016 | url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/reviving-the-pop-punk-innocence-of-blink-182 | access-date=April 24, 2023}} Tom Breihan at Stereogum ranked the "soaringly sincere" ballad at a 10/10,{{cite web | last=Breihan | first=Tom | title=The Number Ones: Mariah Carey's "Thank God I Found You" (Feat. Joe & 98 Degrees) | website=Stereogum | date=August 3, 2022 | url=https://www.stereogum.com/2194431/the-number-ones-mariah-careys-thank-god-i-found-you-feat-joe-98-degrees/columns/the-number-ones/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=February 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224051700/https://www.stereogum.com/2194431/the-number-ones-mariah-careys-thank-god-i-found-you-feat-joe-98-degrees/columns/the-number-ones/ | url-status=live }} while Jeremy Gordon at Pitchfork viewed the song as "surprisingly sensitive [...] the fizzy pleasure of the melody captures the Hallmark simplicity of young love."{{cite web | title=Blink-182: Enema of the State | website=Pitchfork | date=January 12, 2020 | url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/blink-182-enema-of-the-state/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=March 15, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315175603/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/blink-182-enema-of-the-state/ | url-status=live }}
Chart performance
The single debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of December 4, 1999{{cite journal
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Music video
The music video for "All the Small Things" was directed by Marcos Siega, and mocks boy bands and contemporary pop videos. It features the trio doing parodies of other popular boy-bands such as Backstreet Boys (most famously the "I Want It That Way" video), 98 Degrees, and NSYNC. The video also features parodies of Britney Spears' "Sometimes", and Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" video. It became the most successful video from Enema of the State, and its constant airplay on MTV cemented the band's image as video stars. The music video was shot on location from August 5–6 at Van Nuys Airport and Santa Monica State Beach.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426201/19990811/blink_182.jhtml|title=Blink-182 Spoofs Boy Bands With New Video|publisher=MTV News|date=August 11, 1999 |access-date=June 2, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100612202903/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426201/19990811/blink_182.jhtml| archive-date= June 12, 2010 | url-status= dead}} It premiered September 20, 1999, on MTV's Making the Video.{{cite web|last=Manning|first=Kara|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426196/19990917/blink_182.jhtml|title=Blink-182 Shoots Boy-Band Video, Prepares To Tour With Silverchair|publisher=MTV News|date=September 17, 1999|access-date=June 2, 2010|archive-date=February 13, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213191532/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426196/19990917/blink_182.jhtml|url-status=dead}} The video was a major success on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL), where it was retired after 65 days on the countdown. Hoppus was originally uncertain if the idea was funny enough, and conceded he was then not as familiar with the teen-pop videos it aims to lampoon.{{cite web | title=Blink-182 - All The Small Things (Video History) | website=YouTube | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfLn7iHKqPM | access-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425014018/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfLn7iHKqPM&gl=US&hl=en | url-status=live }}
The video was named "Best Video" at the 2000 Kerrang! Awards,{{cite web|last=Mancini|first=Robert|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1434121/20000830/slipknot.jhtml|title=Slipknot Steals Spotlight At Kerrang! Awards|publisher=MTV News|date=August 30, 2000|access-date=June 2, 2010|archive-date=January 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108195535/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1434121/20000830/slipknot.jhtml|url-status=dead}} as well as nabbing Best Group Video at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.Hoppus, 2001. p. 98 "I was a little surprised it went over so well," recalled Marcos Siega, director of the clip, commenting that he felt it would offend viewers of TRL and boy band fans. "I think we had the opposite effect. In some ways, I think that video put Blink at that sort of pop level with those other bands. We were making fun of them, but it kind of became [what it was making fun of]." "Blink now had the backing of a major record company […] just like the synthesized pop acts they were spoofing," said British journalist Tim Footman. "In what way were they less 'pop' than Sugar Ray and 98 Degrees?"{{cite book |last=Footman |first=Tim|title=Blink-182: The Unauthorised Biography in Words and Pictures |publisher=Chrome Dreams |date=September 1, 2002 |pages=52–55 |chapter=Chapter 8: Keeping It Clean |isbn=1842401688}} Matt Diehl, author of the book My So-Called Punk, called the basis for satire thin: "To seasoned ears, Blink-182 sounded and looked just as manufactured as the pop idols they were poking fun at."{{cite book |last=Diehl |first=Matt|title=My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Bad Religion - How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |date=April 17, 2007 |pages=75–76 |isbn=978-0312337810}} In a similar vein, in 2011, The New York Times wrote, "Fame doesn't discriminate based on origin, though: soon the group was as famous as those it was parodying."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/arts/music/blink-182-returns-with-new-album-neighborhoods.html?_r=1|title=Not Quite Gone, A Punk Band Is Coming Back|first=Jon|last=Carimanica|date=September 16, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=September 17, 2011|archive-date=October 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002232911/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/arts/music/blink-182-returns-with-new-album-neighborhoods.html?_r=1|url-status=live}} Kelefa Sanneh, writing for The New York Times, described the video as prescient, suggesting "in the next few years top-selling punk-inspired acts like Avril Lavigne and Good Charlotte helped turn Blink-182's parody into reality as punk rock became the new teen pop."{{cite web | title=Music in Review | website=The New York Times | date=November 12, 2003 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/12/arts/music/music-in-review.html | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 26, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426211724/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/12/arts/music/music-in-review.html | url-status=live }}
During rehearsals for the video, bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus met his future wife, Skye Everly. According to a 2004 interview, Everly – who was then an MTV talent executive – initially said no to dating Hoppus. "Tom [DeLonge] always used to embarrass me. Any girl he'd talk to, he'd say, 'Hey, you wanna go on a date with Mark?' He asked Skye [Everly], my wife, who looked at me and said 'No.' That's how it all started."{{cite web|last= Weiner|first=Jonah|url=http://www.blender.com/guide/67763/greatest-songs-ever-all-small-things.html|title=The Greatest Songs Ever! All the Small Things |publisher=Blender|date=November 23, 2004|access-date=June 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719211346/http://www.blender.com/guide/67763/greatest-songs-ever-all-small-things.html|archive-date=July 19, 2010}} Hoppus married Everly on December 2, 2000.{{cite web |url=http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Hoppus/+wiki |title=Mark Hoppus's Biography – Discover music, videos, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm |publisher=Last.fm |date=February 11, 2009 |access-date=October 11, 2011 |archive-date=September 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913010852/http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Hoppus/+wiki |url-status=live }}
In the performance segment of the music video, model Jessica Jackson holds up a sign that reads "TRAVIS I'M PREGNANT". This part of the clip was referenced by Barker and his wife Kourtney Kardashian in June 2023; the couple revealed they were expecting a baby at a Blink-182 show in Los Angeles by having Kardashian hold up the same sign.{{cite web |last1=Harrison |first1=Scoop |title=Kourtney Kardashian Recreates "All the Small Things" Video to Reveal Pregnancy |url=https://consequence.net/2023/06/kourtney-kardashian-all-the-small-things-video-pregnancy/ |website=Consequence |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=June 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230624044110/https://consequence.net/2023/06/kourtney-kardashian-all-the-small-things-video-pregnancy/ |url-status=live }}
Legacy
"All the Small Things" continues to enjoy popularity decades after its release; it is one of several songs to count over one billion streams on Spotify, joining the platform's "Billions Club".{{cite web | last=Adams | first=Benjamin M. | title=Travis Barker Talks Moving into Adult-Use Space, Touring, and Barker Canna Co. | website=High Times | date=2024-02-06 | url=https://hightimes.com/celebrities/travis-barker-talks-moving-into-adult-use-space-touring-and-barker-canna-co/ | access-date=2024-02-06}} The song has been a staple of the band's live performances since its release. Its ubiquity has made it complex for the threesome: Barker noted that over time, playing the song became tiresome. "With 'All the Small Things,' my band at one point were like, 'We never want to play that song, and we never want to hear it ever again.' And then it comes around, and you're like, 'This song is actually awesome.' And you're proud of what you wrote."{{cite magazine | last=Spanos | first=Brittany| title=Kourtney Kardashian Barker and Travis Barker Break Down Their Wedding Playlist | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=April 13, 2023 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kourtney-kardashian-travis-barker-break-down-wedding-playlist-1234714320/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} Hoppus concurred: "It's a really simple song, we've played it billion times, everyone's sick of it. But now I just remember how lucky we are to be onstage playing them."{{cite web | last1=Appleford | first1=Steve | last2=Times | first2=Special to the Los Angeles | title=Blink-182 is older and, its members think, wiser | website=Los Angeles Times | date=October 6, 2011 | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-blink-182-20111006-story.html | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424214448/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-blink-182-20111006-story.html | url-status=live }} DeLonge's voice has deepened over the years,{{cite magazine | last=Kreps | first=Daniel | title=Blink-182 Bring "All The Small Things" to "Leno" | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=May 20, 2009 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/blink-182-bring-all-the-small-things-to-leno-66639/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} leading him to mock the original recording in later years – in a 2022 interview, he compared his vocals on the song to Hanson and quipped, "I sound like I'm fucking four years old."{{cite web | title=Tom DeLonge loves 'voice inside my yead': "It's funny, I get it" | website=Kerrang! | date=April 13, 2022 | url=https://www.kerrang.com/tom-delonge-loves-voice-inside-my-yead-its-funny-i-get-it/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=December 8, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208173113/https://www.kerrang.com/tom-delonge-loves-voice-inside-my-yead-its-funny-i-get-it | url-status=live }}
The song proved influential on the pop punk genre, with a host of young musicians emulating its sound. Former Simple Plan bassist David Desrosiers noted that the song "blended punk attitude with pop songwriting so much better than other bands." Judah & the Lion drummer Spencer Cross, meanwhile, has noted the song was "one of the first songs I remember getting hooked on, playing it over and over again."{{cite magazine | last=Weatherby | first=Taylor | title=Takeover Tuesday: Judah & the Lion Pick Their Favorite Throwback Rock Jams | magazine=Billboard | date=August 8, 2017 | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/takeover-tuesday-judah-the-lion-playlist-rock-songs-7896821/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}}
The song has become a popular karaoke choice,{{cite web | last=Wiebe | first=David Andrew | title=27 Best Karaoke Songs For Beginners 2023, All Are Easy Songs To Sing | website=Music Industry How To | date=June 19, 2019 | url=https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/23-easy-songs-to-sing-for-karaoke-and-beginner-cover-artists/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424214450/https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/23-easy-songs-to-sing-for-karaoke-and-beginner-cover-artists/ | url-status=live }}{{cite magazine | last=Aniftos | first=Rania | title=What's Your Favorite Karaoke Song? Vote! | magazine=Billboard | date=October 5, 2022 | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/favorite-karaoke-song-poll-1235151197/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} particularly for millennials who came of age listening to the song.{{cite web | last=Yerger | first=Jeff | title='Enema Of The State' Turns 20 | website=Stereogum | date=May 31, 2019 | url=https://www.stereogum.com/2043518/blink-182-enema-of-the-state-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=February 15, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215215812/https://www.stereogum.com/2043518/blink-182-enema-of-the-state-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/ | url-status=live }} In a 2022 piece, GQ writer Chris Gayomali humorously suggests that "if you were born in the 1980s or early '90s, even if you were never a fan or a willful listener of a Blink song, the lyrics to their biggest hits—"All the Small Things", "I Miss You"—are somehow already encoded into your subconscious, sitting there, just a few blood-alcohol-content percentages away from being karaoke'd without a teleprompter."{{cite web | title=Mark Hoppus Is Growing Up | website=GQ | date=December 2, 2021 | url=https://www.gq.com/story/mark-hoppus-punk-of-the-year-2021 | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402064902/https://www.gq.com/story/mark-hoppus-punk-of-the-year-2021 | url-status=live }} Billboard columnist Josh Glicksman ranked it among the best karaoke singalongs, observing: "Its communal nature affords it flexibility [...] Bring out every air instrument in the arsenal."{{cite magazine | title=The 100 Greatest Karaoke Songs of All Time: Staff List | magazine=Billboard | date=October 5, 2022 | url=https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-karaoke-songs-all-time/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}}
=Accolades=
| class="wikitable" |
| Region
! Country ! Accolade ! Year ! Rank |
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| NME
| United Kingdom | 50 Most Explosive Choruses{{cite magazine| title =100 Greatest Pop Songs|first1=Priya |last1=Elan |first2=Dan |last2=Martin |first3=Ailbhe |last3=Malone |first4=Rebecca |last4=Schiller | magazine =NME| url =http://www.nme.com/list/50-most-explosive-choruses/261186/page/4}} | 2014 |align="center"| 16 |
| Rolling Stone
| United States | 100 Greatest Pop Songs{{cite journal| date =December 2000| title =100 Greatest Pop Songs| journal =Rolling Stone| issue =855 | publisher =Wenner Media LLC| location =New York City | issn =0035-791X }} | 2000 |align="center"| 94 |
| 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die
| United States | 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You DieDimery, Robert. (2010). 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe, 960 pp. First edition, 2010. | 2010 |align="center"| * |
| VH1
| United States | 2011 |align="center"| 53 |
In popular culture
"All the Small Things" has seen extensive use in popular culture, covered by a number of artists from different genres, and soundtracking video games, movies, and television programs. The band has performed the song on several late-night talk shows, including twice on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno a decade apart, and on Saturday Night Live during the song's original promotional push.{{cite web | title=Kourtney K. and Travis Barker Get Naughty Backstage at SNL | website=E! Online | date=October 17, 2021 | url=https://www.eonline.com/news/1306228/kourtney-kardashian-and-travis-barker-get-naughty-backstage-at-snl | access-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425160504/https://www.eonline.com/news/1306228/kourtney-kardashian-and-travis-barker-get-naughty-backstage-at-snl | url-status=live }} The song was synched for usage in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Boston Legal, Knuckles, and for the band's 2003 guest appearance on The Simpsons; it has also been referenced in the 2011 Family Guy season 9 episode It's A Trap!, where Peter Griffin (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) mistakes it as a Sum 41 song. In film, the song was licensed for use in Charlie's Angels (2000),{{cite magazine |last1=Sollosi |first1=Mary |title=Why the Charlie's Angels soundtrack is still the fiercest, funkiest girl-power playlist ever |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/11/03/charlies-angels-soundtrack/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Meredith Corporation |date=November 3, 2015}} Clockstoppers (2002),{{cite magazine | title=Modern Popsters Wind Up 'Clockstoppers' | magazine=Billboard | date=March 7, 2002 | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/modern-popsters-wind-up-clockstoppers-76550/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} and Hope Springs (2003).{{cite web | title=Hope Springs (2003) - Soundtracks | website=IMDb | date=April 25, 2023 | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314431/soundtrack/ | access-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-date=May 11, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511092213/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314431/soundtrack/ | url-status=live }} The song has been used frequently in music video games; "All the Small Things" is a playable track in Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero: On Tour, Guitar Hero Live,{{cite web |last1=Shaul |first1=Brandy |title=Guitar Hero Live on iOS: Top 20 On-Demand Songs Over the Holidays |url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/guitar-hero-live-on-ios-top-20-on-demand-songs-over-the-holidays/ |website=Adweek |publisher=Beringer Capital |date=January 8, 2016 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222094919/https://www.adweek.com/digital/guitar-hero-live-on-ios-top-20-on-demand-songs-over-the-holidays/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Bramwell |first1=Tom |title=Guitar Hero: On Tour European track list |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/guitar-hero-on-tour-european-track-list |website=Eurogamer |publisher=Gamer Network |date=June 26, 2008 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=January 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118081410/https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/guitar-hero-on-tour-european-track-list |url-status=live }}{{cite web |author1=USA Today |title='Aerosmith' and 'On Tour' join 'Guitar Hero' saga |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5365205&page=1 |website=ABC News |publisher=Disney Media Networks |date=July 14, 2008 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017145522/https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5365205&page=1 |url-status=live }} Rock Band, Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 and its iOS port,{{cite web |author1=News Reporter |title=Rock Band launches iPhone and iPod Touch app |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/ipod-8-1319323 |website=NME |publisher=Bandlab Technologies |date=October 9, 2009 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411064453/https://www.nme.com/news/music/ipod-8-1319323 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Caron |first1=Frank |title=Rock Band nabs Sweet, Monkees, Blink 182 |url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/01/rock-band-nabs-sweet-monkees-blink-182/ |website=Ars Technica |date=January 15, 2008 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411064453/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/01/rock-band-nabs-sweet-monkees-blink-182/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Sliwinski |first1=Alexander |title=Rock Band Weekly: Blink 182, The Monkees and Sweet |url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/14/rock-band-weekly-blink-182-the-monkees-and-sweet/ |website=Joystiq |publisher=AOL |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115203147/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/14/rock-band-weekly-blink-182-the-monkees-and-sweet/ |archive-date=January 15, 2008 |date=January 14, 2008 |url-status=unfit}} and Fortnite Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/fortnite-festival-songs-set-list-111657443.html|work=Yahoo! News|title=Fortnite Festival songs: set list and line-up revealed|date=April 29, 2024|accessdate=May 5, 2024|first=Lola|last=Alao}} When the Guitar Hero series relaunched with Guitar Hero Live in 2015, it was among the game's most-played tracks on its online service.{{cite magazine | last=DiGiacomo | first=Frank | title=System of a Down & Tenacious D Lead 'Guitar Hero: Live' Most Played Songs in First Week | magazine=Billboard | date=October 27, 2015 | url=https://www.billboard.com/culture/lifestyle/guitar-hero-live-top-10-played-songs-system-of-a-down-tenacious-d-bruno-mars-6738645/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} Covers are present in the video games Rock Revolution and Donkey Konga.{{cite web |last1=Fahey |first1=Mike |title=The Full Rock Revolution Setlist |url=https://kotaku.com/the-full-rock-revolution-setlist-5032751 |website=Kotaku |publisher=Gawker Media |date=August 4, 2008 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925172207/https://kotaku.com/the-full-rock-revolution-setlist-5032751 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=Erin |title=Donkey Konga |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/donkey-konga/article20435722/ |website=The Globe and Mail |publisher=Bell Globemedia |date=October 6, 2004 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411064453/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/donkey-konga/article20435722/ |url-status=live }}
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A 2020 advertising campaign from Dunkin', announcing autumn drinks, used a pun alluding to the tune: "All the Fall Things".{{cite web | title=Dunkin' claims its Blink 182 pun was unintentional after band itself responds to 'fall things' slogan | publisher=Fox News | date=September 22, 2020 | url=https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/dunkin-confirms-its-blink-182-pun-was-unintentional | access-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425160504/https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/dunkin-confirms-its-blink-182-pun-was-unintentional | url-status=live }} It was used that same year in a commercial for BMW.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-09-02-blink-182-responds-to-dunkin-donuts-all-the-small-things-marketing-pun/|title=Blink-182 Responds to Dunkin Donuts' 'All the Small Things' Marketing Pun|date=September 2, 2020|access-date=December 3, 2021|archive-date=December 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203181921/https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-09-02-blink-182-responds-to-dunkin-donuts-all-the-small-things-marketing-pun/|url-status=live}} The song has been covered by All Time Low, Kelly Clarkson,{{cite magazine | last=Bowenbank | first=Starr| title=Kelly Clarkson Lets Out Her Inner-Punk With Blink-182 Cover: Watch | magazine=Billboard | date=January 11, 2023 | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kelly-clarkson-blink-182-all-the-small-things-cover-watch-1235197575/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} Charlie Puth,{{cite magazine | last=Spanos | first=Brittany | title=Hear Charlie Puth Cover Blink-182, Spice Girls, Lit on 'Fallon' | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=July 18, 2018 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hear-charlie-puth-cover-blink-182-spice-girls-lit-on-fallon-700624/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=June 8, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608083957/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hear-charlie-puth-cover-blink-182-spice-girls-lit-on-fallon-700624/ | url-status=dead }} GFOTY,{{cite web | last=Rettig | first=James | title=GFOTY – "All The Small Things" (Blink-182 Cover) | website=Stereogum | date=January 27, 2015 | url=https://www.stereogum.com/1732111/gfoty-all-the-small-things-blink-182-cover/news/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424214448/https://www.stereogum.com/1732111/gfoty-all-the-small-things-blink-182-cover/news/ | url-status=live }} Evan Stephens Hall,{{cite web | last=Rettig | first=James | title=Watch Pinegrove's Evan Stephens Hall Play Two New Songs At UK In-Store | website=Stereogum | date=June 13, 2016 | url=https://www.stereogum.com/1882487/watch-pinegroves-evan-stephens-hall-play-two-new-songs-at-uk-in-store/news/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424214451/https://www.stereogum.com/1882487/watch-pinegroves-evan-stephens-hall-play-two-new-songs-at-uk-in-store/news/ | url-status=live }} Kidz Bop,{{cite magazine | last=Watson | first=Elijah | title=Kidz Bop Nation: Inside The Best-Selling Children's CD Series | magazine=Billboard | date=February 4, 2014 | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kidz-bop-nation-inside-the-best-selling-childrens-cd-series-5893932/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} Nick and Joe Jonas,{{cite web | title=Watch Nick Jonas & Joe Jonas Sing Blink-182's "All The Small Things" - News | website=Fuse | date=November 24, 2015 | url=https://www.fuse.tv/videos/2015/11/nick-jonas-joe-jonas-blink-182-all-the-small-things | access-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-date=June 25, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230625094026/https://www.fuse.tv/videos/2015/11/nick-jonas-joe-jonas-blink-182-all-the-small-things | url-status=live }} Avril Lavigne,{{cite magazine | last=Madarang | first=Charisma| title=Avril Lavigne, All Time Low Cover Blink-182's 'All the Small Things,' Crowd Sings Every Line | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=October 24, 2022 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/avril-lavigne-all-time-low-blink-182-all-the-small-things-1234617181/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} Machine Gun Kelly,{{cite web | title=Machine Gun Kelly gives Noblesville Ruoff crowd an energetic show | website=USA Today | date=August 12, 2022 | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/concerts/2022/08/12/machine-gun-kelly-ruoff-music-center/65393909007/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424215951/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/concerts/2022/08/12/machine-gun-kelly-ruoff-music-center/65393909007/ | url-status=live }} Middle Kids,{{cite web | last=Helman | first=Peter | title=Middle Kids – "All The Small Things" (Blink-182 Cover) | website=Stereogum | date=September 6, 2017 | url=https://www.stereogum.com/1961212/middle-kids-all-the-small-things-blink-182-cover/music/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424214454/https://www.stereogum.com/1961212/middle-kids-all-the-small-things-blink-182-cover/music/ | url-status=live }} Twenty One Pilots,{{cite web | last=Rettig | first=James | title=Twenty One Pilots Cover Blink-182 While Filling In For Them At Lollapalooza Argentina: Watch | website=Stereogum | date=March 19, 2023 | url=https://www.stereogum.com/2217371/twenty-one-pilots-blink-182-cover-lollapalooza-argentina/news/ | access-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-date=April 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424215951/https://www.stereogum.com/2217371/twenty-one-pilots-blink-182-cover-lollapalooza-argentina/news/ | url-status=live }} Weezer,{{cite magazine | last=Kreps | first=Daniel | title=Watch Weezer Cover Blink-182's 'All the Small Things' at Chicago's Riot Fest | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=September 15, 2018 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/weezer-blink-182-riot-fest-724816/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} and Postmodern Jukebox{{cite web |title=All The Small Things (Blink 182 Sad Clown Cover) - Postmodern Jukebox ft. Puddles Pity Party |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoyCSffM7I |website=YouTube |access-date=June 25, 2023 |language=en |date=April 6, 2017 |archive-date=June 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230625094025/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoyCSffM7I |url-status=live }} (which is used in the 2022 John Lewis Christmas advert).{{Cite web |title=The Beginner - John Lewis & Partners - Christmas Ad 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z0jfP2gCIs |access-date=December 15, 2022 |website=YouTube |language=en |archive-date=December 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214203451/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z0jfP2gCIs |url-status=live }} It has also seen a dance remix by DJ Sharkoffs.{{cite magazine | last=Dailey | first=Hannah | title=Top 50 Dance Remixes of Classic Hits | magazine=Billboard | date=July 28, 2022 | url=https://www.billboard.com/lists/top-dance-remixes-oldies-classic-hits/ | access-date=April 24, 2023}} The virtual band Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 2008 album Undeniable, and the song was used for the characters' live-action film and accompanying video game.{{cite web |last1=Boyer |first1=Brandon |title=Brash To Publish Alvin And The Chipmunks Rhythm Game |url=https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/brash-to-publish-alvin-and-the-chipmunks-rhythm-game |website=Gamasutra |publisher=Informa |date=August 14, 2007 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=August 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825013740/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/106053/Brash_To_Publish_Alvin_And_The_Chipmunks_Rhythm_Game.php |url-status=live }} The song's association with the characters has prompted Hoppus to joke at concerts, "Not to brag, [but] you might recognize this next song from the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie."{{cite magazine | last=Baltin | first=Steve | title=Billie Eilish, Coldplay & More Highlights from iHeartRadio's 2020 ALTer EGO | magazine=Billboard | date=January 19, 2020 | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/billie-eilish-coldplay-blink-182-black-keys-iheartradio-alter-ego-2020-8548432/ | access-date=April 25, 2023}}
Like many famous rock songs, "All the Small Things" has come to be used in chants at sporting events. In 2019, the NHL team the Colorado Avalanche began playing the song during the third period of home games with a comfortable lead and after overtime wins.{{cite news|last=Kandrach|first=Sasha|title=All The Small Things: Rewind on the Avalanche Tradition|url=https://www.nhl.com/avalanche/news/all-the-small-things-rewind-on-the-avalanche-tradition/c-334180094|publisher=NHL Enterprises, L.P.|website=ColoradoAvalanche.com|date=May 19, 2022|access-date=June 16, 2022|language=en-US|archive-date=June 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615063119/https://www.nhl.com/avalanche/news/all-the-small-things-rewind-on-the-avalanche-tradition/c-334180094|url-status=live}} The tradition has gained more prominence as the 2021–22 team won the Stanley Cup Finals. The Athletic{{'s}} book about the 2021-22 team was titled Carry Me Home, a lyric from the song's refrain.{{cite web | url=https://www.triumphbooks.com/carry-me-home-products-9781637272466.php | title=Carry Me Home | access-date=August 18, 2022 | archive-date=August 18, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818165512/https://www.triumphbooks.com/carry-me-home-products-9781637272466.php | url-status=live }} Hoppus acknowledged the Avalanche's tradition on Twitter, calling it "amazing",{{Cite web |title=Mark Hoppus Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/1522228056198328320 |url-status=live |access-date=June 16, 2022 |website=Twitter |language=en |archive-date=June 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616172917/https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/1522228056198328320 }} and appeared at the 2022 home opener to lead the crowd in singing the song, and remarking, "Thank you so much for taking our band along or the ride, it means the absolute world to us."{{cite web | last=Bengel | first=Chris | title=Blink-182's Mark Hoppus leads Avalanche fans in sing-along of 'All the Small Things' at home opener | website=CBSSports.com | date=October 13, 2022 | url=https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/blink-182s-mark-hoppus-leads-avalanche-fans-in-sing-along-of-all-the-small-things-at-home-opener/ | access-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-date=April 25, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425160505/https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/blink-182s-mark-hoppus-leads-avalanche-fans-in-sing-along-of-all-the-small-things-at-home-opener/ | url-status=live }}
Stand-up comedian Adam Devine referenced the song in a routine that aired on Comedy Central's Goddamn Comedy Jam, where he revealed that he had lost his virginity to the song in high school.{{cite web |title=Watch Adam Devine tackle Blink-182's "All the Small Things" for the Goddamn Comedy Jam |url=https://thelaughbutton.com/watch-adam-devine-tackle-blink-182s-small-things-goddamn-comedy-jam |website=The Laugh Button |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=October 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006094351/https://thelaughbutton.com/watch-adam-devine-tackle-blink-182s-small-things-goddamn-comedy-jam |url-status=live }}
Track listings
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| title3 = What's My Age Again?
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| note3 = live
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| length2 = 3:05
| title3 = Family Reunion
| note3 = live in Los Angeles
| length3 = 0:51
| title4 = I Won't Be Home for Christmas
| length4 = 3:16
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| length2 = 3:25
| title3 = What's My Age Again?
| note3 = live in London
| length3 = 3:18
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| note4 = live in London
| length4 = 4:05
| title5 = Dammit
| note5 = live in London
| length5 = 2:36
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- All live tracks on the UK release were recorded at the Electric Ballroom, London, England, on November 30, 1999.
Credits and personnel
=Original version=
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Enema of the State.{{cite AV media notes | title=Enema of the State | year=1999 | others=Blink-182 | type=liner notes | publisher=MCA | location=United States | id=11950}}
Locations
- Recorded at Signature Sound, Studio West, San Diego California; Mad Hatter Studios, The Bomb Factory, Los Angeles, California; Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood, California; Big Fish Studios, Encinitas, California
- Mixed at Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood, California; South Beach Studios, Miami, Florida
Personnel
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;Blink-182
- Tom DeLonge – guitar, lead vocals, songwriting
- Mark Hoppus – bass guitar, backing vocals, songwriting
- Travis Barker – drums
Additional musicians
Production
- Jerry Finn – production
- Tom Lord-Alge – mixing engineer
- Sean O'Dwyer – recording engineer
- Darrel Harvey – assistant engineer
- John Nelson – assistant engineer
- Robert Read – assistant engineer
- Mike Fasano – drum technician
- Rick DeVoe – management
- Gary Ashley – A&R
- Brian Gardner – mastering engineer
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Charts
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=Weekly charts=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1999-2000) !Peak |
| {{single chart|Australia|8|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Austria|4|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Flanders|15|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Canadatopsingles|18|chartid=9712|accessdate=June 29, 2019|refname="can"|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Canadarock|10|chartid=9977|accessdate=June 29, 2019|refname="can1"|rowheader=true}} |
| scope="row"|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/00s/2000/MM-2000-04-01.pdf|title=Eurochart Hot 100 Singles|magazine=Music & Media|volume=17|issue=14|page=11|date=April 1, 2000|access-date=February 8, 2020}}
|6 |
|---|
| scope="row"|European Radio Top 50 (Music & Media){{cite magazine |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/00s/2000/MM-2000-04-01.pdf |title=European Radio Top 50 |magazine=Music & Media |volume=16|issue=12|date=April 1, 2000|page=17|oclc=29800226 |access-date=April 30, 2023 |via=World Radio History}}
|14 |
| {{single chart|Germany|11|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|songid=4186|accessdate=October 12, 2018|rowheader=true}} |
| scope="row"|Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40){{cite news|url=https://timarit.is/page/2995311#page/n9/mode/2up|title=Íslenski Listinn Topp 20 (21.1– 27.1 2000)|newspaper=Dagblaðið Vísir|language=is|page=10|date=January 21, 2000|access-date=October 6, 2019|archive-date=October 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009003648/https://timarit.is/page/2995311#page/n9/mode/2up|url-status=live}}
|8 |
| {{single chart|Ireland2|7|artist=Blink-182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=January 15, 2020|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Italy|6|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch40|21|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|week=13|year=2000|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch100|39|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=May 31, 2018|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|New Zealand|10|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Norway|12|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| scope="row"|Poland (Music & Media){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/00s/2000/MM-2000-05-27.pdf|title=Major Market Airplay – Week 22/2000|magazine=Music & Media|volume=17|issue=22|page=27|date=May 27, 2000|access-date=January 28, 2021}}
|19 |
| scope="row"|Portugal (AFP){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/00s/2000/MM-2000-09-02.pdf|title=Top National Sellers|magazine=Music & Media|volume=17|issue=36|page=13|date=September 2, 2000|access-date=May 1, 2018}}
|10 |
| scope="row"|Romania (Romanian Top 100){{cite web|url=http://www.rt100.ro/topul-anului-2000.html|title=Romanian Top 100 – Topul anului 2000|publisher=Romanian Top 100|language=ro|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050417000554/http://www.rt100.ro/topul-anului-2000.html|archive-date=April 17, 2005|access-date=August 1, 2011}}
|6 |
| {{single chart|Scotland|2|date=20000319|refname=scotland|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Sweden|7|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Switzerland|14|artist=Blink 182|song=All the Small Things|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|UK|2|date=20000325|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|UKrock|1|date=20000325|accessdate=July 29, 2020|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardhot100|6|artist=blink-182|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardadultpopsongs|29|artist=blink-182|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardalternativesongs|1|artist=blink-182|accessdate=June 29, 2019|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardpopsongs|8|artist=blink-182|accessdate=July 18, 2012|rowheader=true}} |
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!Chart (2022) !Peak |
| {{single chart|Billboardrocksongs|22|artist=Blink 182|access-date=October 25, 2022|rowheader=true}} |
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=Year-end charts=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1999) !Position |
| scope="row"|US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard){{cite magazine|title=Most Played Modern Rock Songs of 1999|magazine=Airplay Monitor|volume=7|issue=52|page=36|date=December 24, 1999}}
|94 |
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Certifications
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=single|award=Platinum|relyear=1999|certyear=2000}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Brazil|type=single|artist=Blink-182|title=All the Small Things|award=Gold|relyear=1999|certyear=2024|access-date=August 14, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|type=single|artist=Blink-182|title=All the Small Things|award=Gold|relyear=2000|certyear=2023|id=12517|access-date=August 3, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|type=single|artist=Blink-182|title=All the Small Things|award=Platinum|relyear=2000|certyear=2017|access-date=April 14, 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|type=single|artist=Blink-182|title=All the Small Things|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=2000|certyear=2024|id=12853|access-date=July 8, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|type=single|award=Platinum|relyear=2000|certyear=2024|artist=Blink-182|title=All the Small Things|access-date=November 25, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Sweden|type=single|award=Gold|relyear=2000|certyear=2000|access-date=September 28, 2011}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Blink 182|title=All the Small Things|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=2000|certyear=2024|id=10217-1599-1|access-date=January 13, 2024|refname="bpi"}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|nocert=true|salesamount=500,000|salesref=}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|streaming=true}}
Release history
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| scope="row" rowspan="2"|United States
|September 28, 1999 |{{hlist|Mainstream rock|active rock|alternative radio}} |rowspan="3"|MCA |{{cite magazine|title=Going for Adds|magazine=Radio & Records|issue=1318|pages=123, 128, 138|date=September 24, 1999}} |
|---|
| January 18, 2000
|rowspan="2"|{{hlist|CD|cassette}} |{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/00s/2000/BB-2000-01-29.pdf|title=Hot 100 Spotlight|last=Pietroluongo|first=Silvio|magazine=Billboard|volume=112|issue=5|page=93|date=January 29, 2000|access-date=August 2, 2021}} |
| scope="row"|United Kingdom
|March 13, 2000 |{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/2000/Music-Week-2000-03-11.pdf|title=New Releases – For Week Starting March 13, 2000: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=27|date=March 11, 2000|access-date=August 2, 2021}} |
Jedward version
{{Infobox song
| name = All the Small Things
| cover = Jedward All-The-Small.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Jedward
| album = Planet Jedward
| released = July 16, 2010
| recorded = 2010
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Pop
| length = 2:48
| label = Universal
| writer = {{hlist|Tom DeLonge|Mark Hoppus}}
| producer =
| prev_title = Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)
| prev_year = 2010
| next_title = Lipstick
| next_year = 2011
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|NmrmZahuGvU|"All The Small Things"}}}}
}}
"All the Small Things" served as the second single from Irish pop rap duo Jedward's debut studio album, Planet Jedward. The single was released on July 16, 2010. The song performed relatively modestly, peaking at number 21 on the Irish Charts and at number 6 on the UK Indie Chart.
=Music video=
The music video for "All The Small Things" premiered on YouTube on July 15, 2010. The video was filmed in June 2010. The video is inspired by the original video by Blink-182, parodying popular music videos that have been seen worldwide. The videos parodied by Jedward include "SOS" by the Jonas Brothers, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" by Beyoncé, "Telephone" by Lady Gaga, and "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears. The video was given its first television airplay by 4Music on July 16, 2010. Since its premiere, the video has more than 2 million views on YouTube.{{YouTube|NmrmZahuGvU|"All The Small Things" music video by Jedward}} at Vevo
=Charts=
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!Chart (2010) !Peak |
| {{single chart|Ireland2|21|artist=Jedward|refname="jedwardire"|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|UK|80|artist=Jedward|song=All The Small Things|date=20100731|rowheader=true}} |
| {{single chart|UKindie|6|artist=Jedward|song=All The Small Things|date=20100731|rowheader=true}} |
References
=Footnotes=
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|last1 = Barker
|first1 = Travis
|last2 = Edwards
|first2 = Gavin
|title = Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums
|year = 2015
|publisher = William Morrow
|isbn = 978-0-06-231942-5}}
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| last = Hoppus
| first = Anne
| title = Blink-182: Tales from Beneath Your Mom
| date = October 1, 2001
| publisher = MTV Books / Pocket Books
| isbn = 0-7434-2207-4
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- {{Cite book
| last = Shooman
| first = Joe
| title = Blink-182: The Bands, The Breakdown & The Return
| date = June 24, 2010
| publisher = Independent Music Press
| isbn = 978-1-906191-10-8
}}
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External links
- {{YouTube|9Ht5RZpzPqw|Music video}}
{{Blink-182 songs}}
{{Jedward}}
{{Colorado Avalanche}}
{{MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video}}
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