G.O.A.T

Album: Happenings (2024)
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  • "G.O.A.T" ("Greatest of All Time") was released in July 2024 as part of Kasabian's album Happenings. The lyrics focus on themes of self-belief and ambition, urging us to strive for greatness. Lead singer Serge Pizzorno described the song as being about chasing your dreams with everything you've got.
  • Pizzorno's youngest son, Lucio, gave him the idea for the song while watching a video of footballer Lionel Messi.

    "My son came up to me and showed me Messi scoring some amazing goals but the music to the montage was awful, so I wrote down the Greatest Of All Time and this beat for that song just came," Pizzorno told The Sun. "It would make a great Olympic anthem."
  • Unlike past Kasabian records that were built in a studio like careful architectural projects, Happenings was mostly hammered out while the band were on tour. "We'd never really done that before," Pizzorno told Radio X's John Kennedy, "and that kind of fed into this joyous, huge, big-tune album."
  • Pizzorno's songwriting philosophy for Happenings was closer to fast food than fine dining: no verses, no bridges, no faffing about, just "songs that start with the chorus" and hit you in the face with melody.

    To tighten the punch even further, he brought in Mark Ralph (Clean Bandit, Jax Jones, and Years & Years). The result was a marriage of Ralph's pop sensibility and Pizzorno's "weird stuff" from his Leicester studio.
  • A special remix, "G.O.A.T (Sky 25 Mix)," was created specifically for Sky Sports as the lead soundtrack for their Premier League football coverage, starting with the opening game between Liverpool and Bournemouth on August 15, 2025. It was the second time Kasabian and Sky Sports collaborated; "Club Foot" was used for their Premier League coverage between 2009 and 2011.
  • For the Sky remix, Pizzorno wanted something bigger, faster, and just slightly more epic. To help him achieve this, he recruited Cristale, a rising south-west London rapper. "Someone sent me a link to her Spotify," Pizzorno said, "and I was like, 'Wow, she is great.' She has an amazing flow."

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