![]() ![]() And Porky’s, like Britney Spears, is tame by comparison. ![]() I wasn’t of proper viewing age according to the MPAA, but I’m pretty sure I’d been bar mitzvahed. I’m trying to remember how old I was when I saw Porky’s for the first time (Redfoo and Sky Blu should go all Harold & Kumar on it, build another American Pie franchise). ![]() In the process, they also might wind up playing to the right crowd - one that doesn’t include grade-school kids (they were everywhere at Staples) who probably shouldn’t be hearing everything that goes on in not-actually-innocuous hits like “Sexy and I Know It” and “Shots.” You might come away smiling at, even adrenalized by, their electro-pop banality.Ĭrazy as this sounds, with concerted effort to sharpen the very dull edges of both their vomited-up party-rock aesthetic and barely detectable sense of in-on-the-joke humor, LMFAO could develop into a permanently primitive Beastie Boys for our EDM age, licensed to shuffle. with better wiener jokes.Ĭheck your brain at the door, enter the arena eager to bask in the sexy silliness of it all, and these privileged industry kids from Pacific Palisades (Redfoo is Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr.’s son, Sky Blu his grandson) might leave more of an impression than a dozen oh-so-serious indie bands all aping one another. As dopey as LMFAO’s music is - often deliberately so - the duo’s opening sets for better peers in recent years suggested potential for sheer escapist effed-up fun down the road, like Andrew W.K. That’s not as ludicrous an expectation as you might think, you haters (I’m admittedly one). Maybe I wouldn’t see a pyro-laden spectacle of epic proportions - though is a laser too much to ask? - but at least a highly memorable party that kept me bouncing as much as ROTFLing. Just as terrible and boring and underachieving as I feared it might be, no matter how much I went in hoping something would surprise me. ![]() I had to see for myself, and now I know for sure: LMFAO’s headlining debut at Staples Center Tuesday night was indeed one of the lamest displays of pop nonsense ever staged in Southern California. ![]()
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