LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem

There's a lot I find interesting with this, and a lot of it hasn't got much to do with the music. Prior to this, I always thought that the success of LMFAO was limited by the demographic of people who are too self-serious to download a song by an artist called 'LMFAO' and subsequently play it back on their iPod, and they sure proved me wrong. I guess they called it themselves with a rather prophetic video that demonstrates the infectious nature of it, and it being glued to the top of the charts replicated the unstoppable force that was the 'Party Rock' movement. I actually find it quite funny that they go out of their way to piss off rockists by including 'rock' in the title, and then going further by needlessly namedropping Led Zeppelin.

I do feel like this song came at the right time though. Having listened back to a lot of 2010 pop recently, there's a definite divide between then and now that comes roughly around when this song hit. This song employs a rather boisterous synth that holds most of the song together, but if you compare it to a lot of earlier counterparts, they often bloop around with no spark, and drag down whatever song they're in. This on the other hand, is all the better for being anchored by a synth that actually has some life to it, and from a 2014 perspective, I can still listen to this without being bogged down by how dated it sounds.

That being said, this song is shockingly not without its flaws. For instance, the lyrics are a bit of a mush of nothing, it falls back on a big, dumb chorus that really doesn't have much lasting power, and by the second half of the song, there's a clear sign to me that they don't have a good way to keep the song interesting. As a result, we get the choruses mashed together and re-arranged, and we get a totally unnecessary additional vocal hook in the bridge from Lauren Bennett. That being said, with the release of tension brought on by a quick pause, after that bridge is perhaps the only time that the chorus makes for a satisfying pay off.

I can never fairly judge this song, just because on one hand it's LMFAO, and on the other hand, it's very good for LMFAO. Maybe I'll start to groan at it in another few years, but for now it's not a problem. 3.3
Laatst gewijzigd: 22/08/2014 21:09