Avril Lavigne is going to sing the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song on the soundtrack for a film version of the Nickelodeon show. The track will feature on a soundtrack which will also include the Flaming Lips, Wilco, The Shins, Ween and Motorhead - all artists picked by the show's creator Stephen Hillenburg.
Commenting on Hillenberg's choice of artists, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne revealed: "I actually suggested that maybe I could try to get Justin Timberlake to do a duet with us, as an off-the-cuff idea. But Hillenburg said: 'I don't want any of those sort of commercial weirdos on there. I don't like those commercial people. I like you guys, and Wilco and Ween'. Hillenburg wanted people who liked SpongeBob, who felt some kinship with the characters, and the absurdness and surreal-ness of it, and I truly think the show is clever and funny and sick".