PARTY ROCKIN’ WITH LMFAO
It was about 1:05 on a typical Monday afternoon at MAGX, I was awaiting a call from a member of LMFAO, the Electro Hip-Hop duo that stormed the summer with their smash single “I’m in Miami.” The phone rings and I hear “What up playa pimp?” I don’t think I was fully prepared for what I was getting into. Researching the group the first thing I came upon was a short story regarding the name they chose so I decided to ask…
It was about 1:05 on a typical Monday afternoon at MAGX, I was awaiting a call from a member of LMFAO, the Electro Hip-Hop duo that stormed the summer with their smash single “I’m in Miami.” The phone rings and I hear “What up playa pimp?” I don’t think I was fully prepared for what I was getting into. Researching the group the first thing I came upon was a short story regarding the name they chose so I decided to ask…
Is it true that Grandma Goodfoot named your group?
It’s totally true, it all came about through ichat. Grandma Goodfoot quite a crafty old lady.
How was the halloween look alike experience for you?
It was great. It’s something that lets you know your doing the right thing. When so many people wanna copy your image to celebrate a holiday it’s just wow. I almost wanted to dress up like Red Foo!
Your new video for LALALA is awesome. Do you feel it’s important to have a sense of humor in music? It’s filled with prolific keytar playing, beautiful women and cool graphics.
I think that’s one of the most important things in music even if it is a serious subject or something that hits you hard, it’s always good to add humor to it because I think it’s easier for people to understand when its funny. You gotta poke fun at yourself. If you have no humor you aren’t gonna have much fun in life.
What was it like working with LIL JON on the song Shots?
It was fun everyone in Lil Jon’s camp is family they are all party animals. We had so much fun in the studio with Lil Jon we were drunk most of that song! We just took shots and hit record.
What do you have to say to the blog “The Sexist” which calls your song Shots a date rape jam. Which I don’t agree with by the way.
It’s probably some middle age mother whose daughter came to our show and got boned! The daughter knows we’re sexy dudes. So just deal with it. The song is not “Roofies, Roofies, Roofies” it’s “Shots, Shots, Shots” a celebration of a pass time the majority of us partake in. So seriously, don’t be jealous about the size of my package.
You’ve done a multitude of remixes and guest spots with everyone from Kanye to Pitbull to Chris Cornell which have been your favorites?
The Love Lockdown (Kanye West) is pretty amazing because how fast we were able to speed it up. After that all of our remixes have taken flight at that speed. It was pretty cool because about 3 days after we completed it the track was
getting played all over the place.
Is there anyone out there you’ve been really wanting to work with?
Right now, it’s really about
pushing ourselves and seeing how far we can take it
creatively. If something comes our way we’re not opposed to it. We like keeping it in the cool. It’s hard doing songs with a
person because we like to
perform our songs live. You can’t really perform without the guest spots so we like to keep it in the house. Red Foo, Sky Blu.
How are things different touring now that your record (party rock) is out?
It’s great because people know all the songs. When the record wasn’t out some people knew a few tracks off of myspace but now every song off the
album when we perform they sing. Every song on our record is catchy and could be a single and I like that.
How is the writing process for LMFAO? is it very planned or is a lot freestyle?
It’s more of an inspiration of the moment thing. Any
situation could be a song, its
really about what inspires us. Oh! that’s a great song! We don’t really like being those guys that are like alright we’re gonna right this bumpin’ jam and they gonna dance it in the club and it’ll be funny. Like for example we came up with I Am Not a Whore when we were at a club trying to pick up women. They would always compliment our hair and that’s where the
conversations would end. So Red Foo one day was like I’m gonna accuse them of
sleeping with me. He kind of shocked me because I was more than sure it would backfire. So I’m watching Foo and this random girl is like “I like your hair.” and he responds with “Just cause your
flattering me with compliments I’m not gonna sleep with you, you can’t be grabbing my
booty and such. So I’m here
thinking that’s amazing he’s got a random chick touching his booty. I mean, he’s just
kicking it true. We’re not whores but we like to do it.
What can people expect from a headlining Party Rock tour?
A traveling drunk circus is what it’s best described as. We got a bunch party animals on this show Far East Movement,
Paradiso Girls, and Space Cowboy. We also have a lot of magical pelvic thrusts going on. You haven’t seen thrusts like these. Elvis would die twice if he were to see the thrusts we messing with.
What’s one thing you want people to come away with from listening to the record?
We want them to definitely catcha a buzz but not a hangover. If you are the DD we want you to go away with 2 chicks on your arm. If your a girl then vice-versa. If you like dudes do your thing. It’s all about the party spirit. Just celebrate
being yourself, if you wanna dress in marshmallows do your thing.
This is your second visit to the Rio Grande Valley. What do you think of the region?
It’s great, i think some of our drunkest moments have been there. No joke. The weather, the people, everything is nice. The ladies are crazy!
