Leave It All to Me
The sample
"Leave It All to Me" is the debut single by American actress and singer Miranda Cosgrove and the theme song for Cosgrove's Nickelodeon show iCarly. It features Cosgrove's former Drake & Josh co-star, Drake Bell, and was written by Michael Corcoran, one of Bell's band members.[3] A shortened version is used in the show's opening credits, but the full version can be found on the show's soundtrack. The single charted in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100, at position 100.
Music video
The official music video premiered after an episode of iCarly on May 24, 2008. The first shot shows a laptop with iCarly.com on it. Miranda Cosgrove (Carly), Jennette McCurdy (Sam), Nathan Kress (Freddie), Jerry Trainor (Spencer) and Drake Bell are seen dancing and singing in the played videos on the laptop. Kids are seen dancing in the videos sent in by them, which are also not on iCarly.com. At the end of the video, they zoom out of the laptop. It was directed by Dan Schneider, the creator of iCarly.
The video premiered on TRL on June 11, 2008.
Track listing
- Leave It All to Me
- Other Versions
- Leave It All to Me (Jason Nevins Remix)
- Leave It All to Me (Billboard Remix)
Cover versions
The song was covered by punk band Less Than Jake on their release TV/EP.
In popular culture
In the season eight episode of House, "Blowing the Whistle", House tells a clinic patient to hop on one foot and sing the iCarly theme song.
In translation
"Leave It All to Me" is the intro music of versions of iCarly that are dubbed into other languages for other markets—but sung by different people with slightly modified lyrics in the target language. The song has a few subtle political overtones that are not always translated into the new target languages.
Known versions in translation
Charts
References
- 1 2 Digital download track listing
- ↑ http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=9132869&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p394171/songs
- ↑ Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales
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