LMFAO interview: "We're respectful to our neighbours"

After scoring a surprise worldwide smash with'Party Rock Anthem' and helming new dance move 'the shuffle', LMFAO's mission - "to turn the world into a party rock planet" - appears to have kicked off without a hitch. Keen to prove they are more than a one-hit wonder, the uncle-nephew duo are gearing up to release their new single 'Champagne Showers' and second album, titled Sorry For Party Rocking, later this month. Intrigued, we met up with Redfu and SkyBlu to find out more.

Describe your new single 'Champagne Showers'...
Redfu: "It's the ultimate party song. It's going to change the way that people view champagne. At the moment it's quite a dignified drink, but we want people to start spraying bottles of the stuff. It's not even about the alcohol, it's about the physical act of spraying it."

You're releasing it quite soon after 'Party Rock Anthem'; were you worried about being labeled a novelty act?
Redfu: "It's to show the world that 'Party Rock Anthem' is one of many good songs we have to offer. Even though we've released a few singles before it, we don't want to become a novelty act to the new people that we've reached. 'Party Rock' is very pop song."

LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem

LMFAO interview

iProng Artist of the Week for October 12th

iProng Magazine chats with electronic hip hop duo LMFAO about their hit song I’m In Miami Bitchand the serious art of being silly…

interview by Bill Palmer

LMFAO can’t help but get labeled as a party band. Maybe because their current radio hit “I’m In Miami Bitch” is about partying in South Beach. Perhaps because their album is called Party Rock. Or maybe just because the name of their band is LMFAO. But while Redfoo and Sky Blu don’t seem to mind the “party” label, the son and grandson of Motown founder Berry Gordy offered up a surprisingly serious discussion of their music and why having fun is hard work.



You’re based out of Los Angeles, so what led you to write a song about Miami?



Redfoo: It’s a traveler’s song. I feel like it was originally meant for people traveling to Miami. So that’s what you say when you’re there, when you’re traveling. “I’m in Miami!” You’re excited. We actually never went to Miami before we wrote the song. We heard tales, we heard stories. The main thing with the WMC. and DJs that went the year before, were telling us how great it was and how the girls had their booties popping and how everybody was drinking all day, and they’d play all night, you know what I mean? And so we wrote the song imagining that this is how we would feel when we were there. And this is what we would say when someone called us from home, “Hey man, come down to the local billiards room and let’s shoot some pool,” we’d say “Hey, I’m in Miami, bitch. Can’t make it.”

LMFAO - Yes

LMFAO

LMFAO is a Grammy Award nominated electro-hop group from Los Angeles, California consisting of rappers REDFOO (Stefan Gordy) and Sky Blu (Skyler Gordy). Signed to a venture between Interscope and will.i.am’s label will.i.am music group. They released their debut EP, the Party Rock EP, in July 2008 and it featured the hit single I’m in Miami Bitch. They followed this up with their debut album, Party Rock, in 2009 and will release their second studio album, Don’t Judge Me, sometime late 2010.

LMFAO has also been featured on many other songs, including the remix of the songs Love Lockdown by Kanye West and LoveGame by Lady Gaga, Gettin’ Over You by David Guetta, and Outta Your Mind by Lil Jon. Both artists are related to Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records, Redfoo is his son and Sky Blu is his nephew.

LMFAO is a Grammy-nominated group from Hollywood, California. Though influential in the electro/hip-hop scene, DJ/rappers Redfoo and Sky Blu call their sound (and brand) “Party Rock.”