All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)

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"All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)"
Widelife & Simone Denny - All Things (Just Keep Getting Better).jpg
Single by Widelife and Simone Denny
from the album Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Released2003 (2003)
Length2:45
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s)
  • Ian J Nieman
  • Rachid Wehbi
Producer(s)
  • Ian J Nieman
  • Rachid Wehbi
  • Jeremy Wheatley (add.)
  • Rob Eric (exec.)
Widelife singles chronology
"Body (Reach Out)"
(2002)
"All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)"
(2003)

"All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)" is a song composed by Canadian electronic music production team Widelife with Simone Denny of Love Inc. on vocals. It was the theme song for the television series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy [1] [2] and was an official song of the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup

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Release

Released as the lead single for the Queer Eye soundtrack, [3] the song peaked at number five on the US Billboard Dance Club Play chart and number 12 in Australia, where it was the 13th-most-successful dance hit of 2004. [4] [5] [6]

Widelife performed this single on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno .[ citation needed ] The song was officially remixed by HQ2 (Hex Hector & Mac Quayle), Barry Harris, and Jason Nevins, and appeared in an episode of South Park, titled " South Park Is Gay! ". [1]

Accolades

In 2005, Widelife won the Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year for the single "All Things." [7]

Track listings

Australasian CD single [8]

  1. "All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)" (original version) – 2:45
  2. "All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)" (H2Q club mix) – 7:32
  3. "All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)" (Jason Nevins Big Room remix) – 9:30
  4. "All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)" (Jason Nevins Hands Up mix) – 6:42
  5. "All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)" (Barry Harris Club Interpretation mix) – 9:28

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from the US promo CD liner notes. [9]

Studio

Personnel

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United States200312-inch vinyl Capitol
Australia22 March 2004CD [13]

Betty Who version

In 2018, a remixed version by Betty Who was released as the theme song for season two of the Netflix reboot, Queer Eye ; however, it was never actually used in any episodes. [14] [15] A music video was released featuring the cast of Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, and Tan France. [16] [17] [18]

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