In September 2010,Victorious actress Victoria Justice announced on Twitter that she was recording a mashup of the theme songs from Victorious and iCarly.[1] During an interview with TV Guide in 2011,iCarly actress Miranda Cosgrove revealed that two weeks before filming scenes in the iCarly and Victorious television crossover,the casts of both shows recorded the mashup in a recording studio. Cosgrove said she was excited to sing with the Victorious cast and opined that she was surprised by how well everyone sounded.[2] "Leave It All to Shine" was first released as a single on June 10,2011,through Columbia Records in association with Nickelodeon Records.[3][4]
The song was subsequently featured in the iCarly and Victorious television crossover movie iParty with Victorious,which aired the following day.[5][6][7] The special features Carly (Cosgrove) dating a boy named Steven,who is also dating Tori (Justice). When Carly discovers a photo of Steven and Tori together,she suspects he is cheating and travels to Los Angeles with her friends.[8][9][10] After revealing the truth to Tori,the two girls team up to expose Steven at a party thrown by Kenan Thompson. The main characters of the two shows then engage in a joint performance of "Leave It All to Shine".[8][11][12] The song was then released as the final track on Victorious's debut soundtrack album Victorious:Music from the Hit TV Show on August 2,2011.[13][14]
"Leave It All to Shine" is a mashup of the theme songs from Victorious ("Make It Shine", originally performed by Justice) and iCarly ("Leave It All to Me", originally performed by Cosgrove and featuring Drake Bell).[12][16][17][18] "Leave It All to Shine"'s lyrics blend lines from the theme songs of both shows.[19][20] William Ruhlmann for AllMusic described "Leave It All to Shine" as a teen pop song, writing that the track has "relentless beats, synthesized instrumentations, nonstop simple, repetitive choruses, and Auto-Tune vocals".[17]
Reception and commercial performance
Joe DeAndrea, writing for AbsolutePunk, described "Leave It All to Shine" as a "true highlight", calling it "another [Dan] Schneider gem".[16] Chloe Pryor of The Vanderbilt Hustler revealed that the track was one of her "favorite songs".[21] The staff of Cambio labeled it as a "sweet mashup".[22] Denise Martin from TV Guide wrote Cosgrove and Justice celebrated their "girl power" to the song.[2] Tiara B, writing for The Shade Room, put the song at number ten on her "Victorious: The Top 10 Songs That Still Have Us Hooked" list, mentioning that the track is "cemented in Nickelodeon crossover history", and opining that it is a "true moment that brought Victorious and iCarly fans together".[23] Amy Sciarretto of PopCrush labeled the track as a "bouncy, shiny, happy song with harmonies so sugary they will give you a mouthful of cavities in an instant".[19] She believed that it was so "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed that you can't help but want to sing and dance along".[19]
"Leave It All to Shine" debuted and peaked at number 24 on the US BillboardBubbling Under Hot 100 chart dated July 2, 2011, lasting one week on the chart.[24] It also peaked at number two on the US Kid Digital Song Sales chart.[25] "Leave It All to Shine" ranked at number 23 on the 2011 Kid Digital Song Sales year-end list.[26]
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