How to do the shuffle dance from party rock anthem

This club banger is a single by the Los Angeles Electro-Hop duo LMFAO. The song was released on January 25, 2011 via Interscope Records. The song spotlights shuffling, which LMFAO's Redfoo told Billboard magazine is part of Sorry For Party Rocking's focus on dance in general. "Before we just kind of partied and had some personal moves," he noted, "but now there's dances that are out there that people are doing and shuffling is one that really caught my eye and it felt so good when I was doing it, so we just kind of made that song about shuffling."

The track features singer Lauren Bennett from the international girl group Paradiso Girls and newcomer GoonRock. LMFAO previously did a remix for GoonRock's track "We Came Here to Party." The English-born Bennett took part in the UK version of X Factor back in 2006 as part of a duo called Fusion who were dropped at the Boot Camp stage. Her connection with the party rock movement stems from her association with Paradiso Girls, an ill-fated attempt by Jimmy Iovine to create a European spin–off of his other girl group The Pussycat Dolls.

According to Redfoo, the original chorus lyrics were, "I feel it in my soul tonight, everybody's gonna have a good time." Redfoo is the son of Motown founder Berry Gordy, so he knows that getting a lyric just right can make a huge difference in a song, something he may have learn in his time hanging out with Smokey Robinson. Thinking of the song as something you'd hear when you walk into a party, he changed the lyric to "Party rock is in the house tonight, everybody just have a good time." "The 'Just' was key," said Redfoo. "I made it a command, to focus people on what to do now that we're here together. Our lyrics are very calculated, even if they appear simple."

GoonRock (Jamahl Listenbee), who co-wrote and co-produced this song, is a childhood friend of Redfoo and was also in his late 30s when the song hit. He says when they started working on the song, it was intended for Flo Rida, but they decided to record it as LMFAO. Says GoonRock: "Even though it was for another artist (Flo Rida), by the time we realized that it was gonna be for us we really did sit and say, 'let's change the world. ' Now 'change the world' is probably too big for what this song is, it's really just a feel good song that everybody can get into, but that's what we said - 'let's change the world. Let's do something that will make everything crazy and make everyone feel good in the club. Let's just do the best s--t we can do.' That energy is what we went into it with and it really carried through throughout the song. Every part was paid attention to. We wanted to take the listener on a ride. We wanted to do something great."

The song's music video is a take on the 2002 British zombie movie 28 Days Later in which Redfoo and Sky Blu wake from a party induced coma to find the world possessed to dance to this song. The director Mickey Finnegan explained that, "The concept of the video, there's been an epidemic, the world has gone crazy, as soon as the song came out, everyone got possessed and all they want to do is to shuffle, everyone is a shuffler."

This was the first song with the word "anthem" in its title to reach the top 10 of the Hot 100. The previous best charting anthem tune was "Player's Anthem" by Junior M.A.F.I.A., which peaked at #15 in 1995. Three weeks after it reached the top tier of the chart, James Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" jumped from #23 to #9 to become the second title sporting the word 'anthem' to reach the top 10.

LMFAO had been hanging around the charts for a few years before this song hit it big. In 2009, they hit #51 with "I'm In Miami Trick" and #55 with "La La La." The next year, they made #31 with "Gettin' Over You," a collaboration with David Guetta, Chris Willis and Fergie.

Redfoo told Digital Spy he and SkyBlu weren't surprised at "Party Rock"'s success. He said: "We made a decision for that to be the first single from the album for the very reason that we thought it could be a number one song. It's a song that is quite unique as it's a party track that actually talks about how to party. It's like an instruction to dance. We were excited about it when we first finished it, especially as it took over year to make. "

This was only the second Hot 100 chart-topper to sport the word "party" in its title. For the first to do so, we have to go back to June 1st and 8th 1963 when Lesley Gore celebrated two weeks at #1 with "It's My Party."

The song was declared by Billboard magazine to be their 2011 song of the summer. Billboard's Songs of the Summer chart ranks the most popular songs based on chart performance from Memorial Day through Labor Day. "We created a tool for people to use to get hyped up at their party, on their boat, at the club, at the gym, etc. People love it... it feels amazing!" Redfoo told Billboard upon hearing the news. "Because of how hard we worked on mixing the record and the dedication that went into the video, it was clear from the beginning that our goal was to take the party rock sound to number one."

LMFAO were the first duo to top the Songs of the Summer chart since 1996 when another dance anthem, Los Del Rio's "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" was the seasonal leader.

The song was the best-selling song on the UK version of iTunes in 2011. Adele's "Someone Like You" finished second with Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" in third place.

Worldwide, this was the second-best-selling single of 2011, following "Rolling In The Deep" by Adele.

The video marks the first time Redfoo and his LMFAO partner SkyBlu used a choreographer. He acknowledged to Billboard that, "now I'm definitely more conscious of how I'm dancing. But it's not, like, super choreography moves. We're not competing with Chris Brown or anything like that."

The song's party lasted 68 weeks on the Hot 100 - the longest ever residence by a song that hit #1. Only Jason Mraz's #6-peaking "I'm Yours" (76 weeks, 2008-09) and LeAnn Rimes' #2 hit "How Do I Live" (69 weeks, 1997-98) had spent more time on the tally.

The song had a very interesting chart run. Released on January 25, 2011, the song first appeared on the Hot 100 on February 12 at #78. It dropped out the next week, then returned in April to the lower reaches of the chart. As the video (released March 8) picked up steam, the song slowly rose up the chart, finally peaking at #1 on July 16.

The song's 47-week drop from #1 until it fell out of the Hot 100 broke the previous record of 44 weeks descending from the top spot set by Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply" in 1998.

The song contains the iconic phrase, "Everyday I'm shufflin'," in the chorus, which Rick Ross claimed is an unauthorised interpolation of the lyric, "Everyday I'm hustlin,'" from his 2006 single, "Hustlin'." The Maybach Music Group bawse, along with Jermaine "Mayne Zayne" Jackson (no, not that one), filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against LMFAO in which they claimed that despite the slight change it constitutes "an unauthorized derivative work."

The suit also cited the numerous and lucrative licensing opportunities the song generated in TV shows, video games and commercials, as well as LMFAO's clothing line, Party Rock Clothing, which features the phrase on T-shirts and other clothing items.

Ross has some experience with copyright infringement lawsuits. The rapper, born William Roberts II, took his stage name from the drug kingpin "Freeway" Ricky Ross, who sued over the appropriation. The original Ross lost the suit after years of appeal.

After two years of legal wrangling, the judge decided to dismiss the entire case altogether. According to TMZ.com, the judge reportedly found Ross' copyright applications, "inconsistent and incomplete."

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Composition

"Party Rock Anthem" is written in the key of F minor at a tempo of 130 beats per minute. It follows the Fm-E♭-D♭ chord progression and has a vocal range from D♭ 4-A♭ 5. ^[6]

Clip

Background

The clip was released on March 8, 2011. ^[7] and was produced by two LMFAO members, Redfoo and Sky Blu, with the help of Shinzu Ai. It was staged and featured by Quest Team members Hokuto Konishi, Victor Kim, Ryan Conferido, Steve Terada, Aris Paracuelles, Brian Hirano and Ryan Feng. The video is a parody of a 2002 horror film. 28 days later . Lauren Bennett, featured in the song, also appeared in the music video. Director Mickey Finnegan described the concept: "There was an epidemic, the world went crazy as soon as the song came out, everyone is obsessed, and all they want to do is shuffle the cards, everyone shuffles." In the video, the dancers perform the Melbourne Shuffle, which quickly gained popularity in the United States.

video

This music video takes place after the events of sorry about the party , the duo's previous song. The title of this video states that Redfoo and Sky Blu went into a coma due to excessive party rocking and that their single was released the next day. After the "28 DAYS LATER" caption appears, Redfoo and Sky Blue are shown in an abandoned hospital waking up from their coma in a similar fashion to Cillian Murphy's character in the original film. Redfoo and Sky Blue walk out of the hospital onto a deserted street full of trash and abandoned cars. They spot a man with a turtle backpack "shuffling" their song before being quickly snatched up by another man in a shirt (Malcolm Goodwin), a parody of Louis from Left for dead and Sean of Zombie named Sean , who hides them behind a car and explains that ever since their single came out, everyone all over the world just "shuffles" all day long. Midway through the conversation, the song starts playing in the street, and the man quickly hands Redfoo and Sky Blu some Dr. Dre Punch headphones to drown out the song. Redfoo and Sky Blu put in their headphones and ask to play along with the song. Soon the street fills with "shufflers", including the mate label. Colette Carr, everybody dance to the song. When another young man in dark clothing and an Atlanta Braves cap tries to escape the building, he is surrounded by zombie horde-style dancers before reappearing in stylish new clothes and shuffling around while "infected".

Frightened by seeing the fate of another person, Redfoo and Sky Blue start dancing with the others, pretending to be infected. After the line "There's no lead in our airship", the frame cuts right into the front of the hospital (which looks like the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album Physical Graffiti . It's a tribute to the English rock band that the duo have cited as a personal influence). In the middle of the video, a previously infected young man dances towards Redfoo and Sky Blue, who look terrified. The video fades to black but quickly opens to a new shot (which pays homage to Michael Jackson from Thriller) in which it becomes apparent that they too have been infected as they sing "Every day I'm shufflin" and dance with the rest of the infected dancers until the end a video that ends with a title and an interpolation, "Every day I dance."

Filming location

Outdoor scenes of the music video were filmed at Warner Brothers Studios at ^{"New York Street" [8]} Five-acre lot containing building facades on separate "streets" recreating eight different neighborhoods of the city . ^[9]

Awards

The video won the "Best Video" award at the 7th Annual TRL Awards Awards.

Chart and sales figures

The song ranked first in the ranking Billboard Hot 100, becoming the duo's first number one hit in the US; he stayed there for six consecutive weeks. ^[10] "Rock" spent a total of 29 consecutive weeks in the Hot 100 top 10, becoming the first song to spend more than 25 weeks since then. One Republic "s "Apologize" in 2007-2008. The song spent 68 weeks on the chart, which at the time was the third highest number of weeks on the chart for a song in Billboard Hot 100 History. ^[11] In July 2012, the song surpassed the seven million download mark in the United States, becoming the second fastest song in digital history to reach this plateau - reaching it in 68 weeks, just behind Adele's "Going Down" which reached it in 67 weeks and became third biggest digital single since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital sales in 2003. ^{[12] [13]} As of October 2016, it has sold 8.1 million copies in the US. ^[14] and over a million copies in the UK. ^[15] This is the third best selling digital single in the US of all time. ^[14]

The song will be the second best song of 2011 and the 29th best song of 2012. "Party Rock Anthem" was the second top Hot 100 song in the 2010s decade. Behind Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars was the 2015 hit "Uptown Funk", which spent 14 weeks at number one.

The song spent eleven weeks at number one in New Zealand and ten weeks in Australia. In New Zealand, it is the longest running number one single since the hit single "Brother" in 2009 sold over 45,000 copies. In Australia, it is the longest running number one single since Sandy Tom's "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (with Flowers in my Hair)" in 2006 and was the best selling single of 2011. Certified fifteen times platinum, it is the highest selling single of all time in Australia, surpassing Elton John's Candle in the Wind 1997".

In popular culture

Television, movies and video games

"Party Rock Anthem" has been used in several series, such as the first episode of Clumsy , ^[16] in season 3 episode 8 of Glee , ^[17] in season 5, episode 12 of Gossip girl 14 of Parks and Recreation , in Season 8 So You Think You Can Dance and in South Park City Sushi. It was also used in the opening titles for the Australian reality game show, The Repairmen . There is a parody of the song in the popular YouTube web series Annoying Orange , in the episode "Party Rock". ^[20] The song was also used in the Bat Mitzvah sketch in the Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Channing Tatum, ^[21] and "Australia Got Talent 2011" performed by Timomatic. The Quest Team danced to her in the season 6 finale of America's Best Dance Team . ^[22] In episode 8 of America's Best Dance Team ' from season 7, members of 8 Flavahz danced to the song. ^{[23] [24]} He was featured in a 2011 trailer. Lionsgate movie Madea's Big Happy Family and also heard in video games Just Dance 3 ^[17] as well as being selected for Make the Party (Don't Stop) at Just Dance 4 , and FIFA Street . The video game Dance Center 2 uses it in a DLC released on February 28, 2012. World of Warcraft , dance emote for male pandaren based on the choreography of this song. ^[25] Party Rock Anthem is also present in Konami's latest Dance Dance Revolution arcade game release, Dance Dance Revolution A20 . ^[26]