LMFAO isn’t sorry for Party Rocking

LMFAO is a band that I find wonderfully endearing. The party-rocking uncle-nephew duo wants to tell you one thing, and one thing only: clubbing is awesome. They sing it loud, they sing it proud, and g****mnit if they’re not gonna sing it forever, bless them. This will be their second album, after a series of midway-up-the-chart releases that garnered some mild attention in the northwestern hemisphere. Let’s see if we can blame them for party rocking…

 

“Rock the Beat II”

The announcer is a nice touch to keep the mood light. The beat is definitely for listening, not for dancing, unless someone found a way to dance in slo-mo without looking like an idiot that I wasn’t aware of. Still, a nice intro to how awesome clubbing is, which, clocking in at just under two minutes, is all the purpose it can really serve.
“Sorry For Party Rocking”

HERE’s the nineties-beat-that-done-gone-futuristic beat I was promised. It’s so catchy that the trite lyrics about clubbing being awesome become audio candy, yet every now and then regresses into the previously mentioned pit of undanceable slo-mo. There’s a breakdown in there, but the rapping doesn’t overshadow the techno, which I find refreshing.
“Party Rock Anthem (feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock)”

Psuedo-corchestral opening. Very classy. And the lyrics… we’re remixing an old favorite here, I see, claiming that you run through them girls “like draino”. Again, classy. The catchiest moment comes about 2:16, when DJ Redfoo and DJ SkyBlu take a moment to tell us why we would be deliriously screaming along at the top of our lungs with them: copious and constant amounts of alcohol. They say we have this alcohol because–get this–clubbing is awesome.
“Sexy and I Know It”

The funk on this track helps it stand out from the others, but the track is for blasting out your car, not dancing to. Granted, that might be the best situation to hear a pair of men yelling about their physique, demanding that all nearby stare at them. Though I wasn’t really aching to know what you plan to do in a speedo. Or that you had “passion in your pants.” Wiggle wiggle wiggle, indeed.

 

“Champagne Showers (feat. Natalia Kills)”

Again, a classy soft-techno intro. And if the last track had funk, this one is saturated with disco. Disco done by horny robots. Who think clubbing is awesome. The creative yet predictable uses LMFAO have for champagne are well balanced with several excited squeals from Natalia Kills, for whom I can forgive the autotuning as it worked well with the track and turned her into simply one more key on the synth. The relentless beat was good enough to forgive the nagging feeling that the lyrics might have violated me.

 

“One Day”

Another light folly from LMFAO, though the opening bass here made me almost assume Cher was about to start giving me a talking to. But no, LMFAO are just going to talk about how awesome clubbing is. Even when they paused fondly reminicing about their drinking habits, large bank account, and the vague possibility of a meaningful relationship with someone absent from the dancefloor, I waited during the bridge for Cher to respond.

WANT TO KNOW THE BOTTOM LINE? You’re gonna have to go here, bitch.