How I Met Your Music is the name of two albums composed of songs from the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, the first of which was released hours before the Season 8 premiere. It features 20 songs that had appeared in the first seven seasons of the show and was released only digitally, originally through iTunes. A second iteration, titled How I Met Your Music: Deluxe album, was released a year later. It contains an entirely different play list. Many critics have said that the albums reflect the series' consistently effective use of music.
Album artwork of the 2014 Deluxe version
Image: How I Met Your Music (Original Songs from the Hit Series "How I Met Your Mother") album artwork
"Let's Go to the Mall" is a song written by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother. The song was performed by Canadian actress Cobie Smulders in the role of Robin Scherbatsky, who has a secret past of being a teenage Canadian pop star and adopted the stage name Robin Sparkles. Thomas and Bays originally came up with the idea and spent weeks developing the story with writer Kourtney Kang. The song was first featured in the form of a faux music video in the episode "Slap Bet" that aired on November 20, 2006, before the song was digitally released as a single on September 4, 2007. The track later appeared on the soundtrack album How I Met Your Music (2012).
Let's Go to the Mall
Carter Bays (left) and Craig Thomas (right), creators and executive producers of the show, wrote the song.
Smulders as Robin Sparkles (centre) on the set of the music video. Her appearance is reminiscent of Debbie Gibson's music videos during the Electric Youth-era and Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now".
Smulders' performance received critical acclaim. She reprised the role of Robin Sparkles in three more episodes.
