The Man Behind the Music for the Muppets Songwriter Bret McKenzie

Who’s the man behind the music for the Muppets? Oscar winning songwriter Bret McKenzie! I have said every interview I had during my press trip to Los Angeles was amazing but my interview Bret McKenzie really stood out for me. I could see just how passionate he was about his music and the songs he had written for Muppets Most Wanted. Honestly, I think I was in awe of him the whole time he spoke…

Bret McKenzie’s ‘Man or Muppet’ won an Oscar for best song in 2012. We wanted to know if there was any pressure to meet that kind of standard again when working on the music for Muppets Most Wanted. “Yeah there was a lot of pressure because of the Oscar but really what could I do? There’s always gonna be downhill. I was appreciative but then I had to get on with the job and just, you know, forget about that. ‘Cause I didn’t work on the last Muppet film to win awards, you know.” said McKenzie. This was one of my favorite responses. Obviously he was very appreciative of the Oscar but he writes songs because this is what he loves and he’s not writing them for an award. I loved his response!

McKenzie said it was really fun working on the Muppet films. James Bobin and Nick Stoller sent him the script and had the original idea for the ‘We’re doing a sequel’ song so he started looking through the history of bad sequels and qualities of sequels and there’s so many. “There was one lyric, the–– the first song, the first lyric in the song, um, [SINGS] ‘We’re doing a sequel, that’s what we do in Hollywood, but everybody knows that the sequel’s never quite as good,’ that like a great start to the movie ’cause it lets the audience know that first of all it’s a sequel and then we–– we know that it’s possibly not as good as the last one. ” said McKenzie. It’s a very funny start for the movie for sure! Check out the video for the song below. It also has some great clips from the movie. (more…)