Fairly OddParents: A New Wish is out now!! Our first song “New Yorkity York” is in episode seven and it's a live Broadway Big Band-style musical number!
If you grew up in the early 2000s you may be familiar with the original Nickelodeon series. Fairly OddParents features a kid with fairy godparents (or in this case FAIRLY ODDPARENTS: specifically Cosmo and Wanda) who have the ability to use magic and grant wishes. However, the wishes are often poorly stated or misconstrued - and this leads to hijinks. In this episode, Hazel wishes for 15 minutes of fame and ends up with 1500 minutes of fame. Which is way too much fame. So to burn through the minutes, she turns them into New York Minutes - in the style of a broadway musical.
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I was a Nick Kid. The OG series was one of my fave shows and OG songs like “Icky Vicky” and “Shiny Teeth” still intrusively enter my brain (also “Log Song” from Ren & Stimpy (which is a re-lyric of the slinky theme song (but that’s another story))). So going into this we knew we wanted to pay respect to some of the tenets of the OG show - namely the big band palette set up by composer Guy Moon, include a list like is featured in the theme song, and also write parts for Cosmo and Wanda who weren’t originally scripted to sing. Some other inspos were this John Oliver NY street musical, particularly how it changes tempo often, and this song that also talks about mysterious street gasses.
After the v1 demo New Yorkity York didn’t change too much! The biggest change was the lyric “bodega cat and pizza rat”became “bodega rat and pizza cat”. Did you know pizza rat is trademarked?
“Bodega Rat”
“Pizza Cat”
Some credits! “New Yorkity York” was written and produced by Ryan Lofty & Courtney Lofty, performed by Ashleigh Crystal Hairston (Hazel), Daran Norris (Cosmo), Susanne Blakeslee (Wanda) and Ryan Lofty (BGVs/Harmonies). Musicians: Jeremy Lappitt (Saxophone), Isamu McGregor (Piano), Craig Akin (Bass), Dennis Holt (Drums), and Ryan Lofty (Trumpets/Trombone). The cast was engineered by Ryan Greene at Nickelodeon Studios. Music Supervision by Ellie Vainshtok and Hannah Bredberg. You can hear composers Caleb Chan & Brian Chan’s lush score on the way into the clip. Advantage Audio did the mix!
Our exec team on the show included EPs Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, Lindsay Katai, and Dave Stone; and Line Producer Vandana Pulijaal.
Aaand some happy snaps live from Nickelodeon Studios:
Catch new episodes on Nickelodeon all summer long 🧚🧚♀️