![]() ![]() Stretched out over an hour, their solitary idea wears unbearably thin: pretty quickly, your reaction is less LMFAO than WTF? and, ultimately, FFS. And the one thing that unites all novelty dance acts is that the novelty wears off pretty quickly: you don't get many BBC4 documentaries on the long and varied career of Doop. At best, they're 2 in a Room, dimly remembered makers of the 1990 hit Wiggle It at worst they're 2 in a Tent, dimly remembered makers of a house version of When I'm Cleaning Windows. In the case of Party Rock Anthem, it came with an actual novelty dance attached. Despite the opening track's bold assertion that their emergence marked "the birth of a new sound: Party Rock" – a genre the duo claim is variously influenced by the Beatles, Michael Jackson and Led Zeppelin, three artists LMFAO audibly have no more in common with than they do with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sunn O))) and the Massed Bands of the Coldstream Guards – the truth is that they operate in the genre of novelty dance music. It seems unlikely anyone who buys an album by the authors of We Came Here to Party, Put That A$$ to Work and I'm in Miami Bitch is doing so in the hope of finding earnest self-examination, in much the same way that no one dismissed Radiohead's King of Limbs because they were disappointed at the lack of songs on which Thom Yorke updated us on the activities of all the hotties in the VIP area.Īnd yet, you can understand how LMFAO came to develop a preoccupation with time's passing. On the surface, this is a surprising state of affairs. "My time is short," they offer, "but my money's long." In theory, their discontent stems from a recalcitrant female, perplexingly unswayed by the duo's seduction technique: "Goosing girls, that's my style." But close examination of the lyrics, an activity best performed wearing protective clothing and some kind of breathing apparatus, suggests something more existential is troubling them, a sense that the end might be nigh. "My car brand new … house on the hill, Hollywood view."Īlas, it hasn't brought them happiness. "I got everything I asked for," they rap. In Australia, it was the longest running chart-topper since – wait for it – Sandi Thom's I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker With Flowers in My Hair, a statistic that makes you worry a little for the mental stability of your average antipodean record buyer, but which has clearly had a positive effect on the LMFAO bank balance. Their single Party Rock Anthem went to No 1 around the world. Propelled to fame by its use in the kind of reality shows that get written about a lot in Heat magazine, but which no one you know has ever actually seen – Jersey Shore, something unspeakable involving Kim Kardashian – their music has attained genuinely global reach. You couldn't tell that from the music, which – like everything on Sorry for Party Rocking – cleaves to thumping house beats, distorted rave synthesisers and Auto-Tuned vocals, but atop it, the pop-rap duo ponder their accumulated wealth and status. T he sixth track on their second album finds LMFAO in reflective mood.
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