Wikipedia Genre: Electro-funk, nu-disco, synth-pop, dance-rock
Home: Montreal
Poster Position: 3 (7) Weekend One Only. Saturday.
Thoughts: Last here in 2014, and they are just silly, good fun. It’s like a Lonely Islands joke that is not a joke at all. Two hairy dudes making disco techno funk dance music. Sounds kind of like the new (well, 2013) Daft Punk stuff or 80’s funk Gap Band/Cameo type stuff. Kind of fun. I want to jump up and down and rhythmically thrust my pelvis. Seriously. Listen to this right now and try to not smile and try to be still. "Jealous (I Ain't With It)," with 71.3 million streams.
Has some Katy Perry bass line crossover. Super derivative of what has come before them and all, but come on! This would probably be a freaking blast to see live. I’m going to need to work out some before October to be prepared. Amazingly, all of their music is like this – this is not a one song move in homage to their favorite 80’s funk band. This is legit. "Fancy Footwork," with 19.8 million streams.
For some reason, this song makes me think of Napoleon Dynamite - I know this was not what he jammed to at the assembly, but I think it would have fit in just right in that scene. Uh, hey Pedro, like check out my fancy footwork, okay?
Spotify lists their first album as being from 1983, but that cannot be true. Wikipedia says they formed in 2002, so that must be a typo. Since that 2002 formation, they've put out 8 studio albums - 2004's She's in Control, 2007's Fancy Footwork, 2010's Business Casual, 2014's White Women, 2018's Head Over Heels, 2020's Quarantine Casanova, 2021's Bend the Rules, and 2023's CLUSTERFUNK. The quarantine album is funny because the song names are perfect - "Clorox Wipe," "6 Feet Away," "Stay in Bed (And Do Nothing)," "Cabin Fever," etc. Very Lonely Island vibes on that one, singing about falling in love from six feet away and not being able to hear each other because of masks.
The group is from Montreal - two high school friends (David "Dave 1" Macklovitch and Patrick "P-Thugg" Gemayel) - who have called their group "the only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture." They started making music together at 15 - mainly hip hop production - but then angled towards disco club greatness.
Let's do one of the newest tracks to see if anything has changed over the years. The new album feels a little more like Parliament/Funkadelic at times, but then throws off the Chic vibes too. The top track is called "Everyone Moves to LA," with 815k streams.
I'd go watch this - silly and fun and pleasurable.
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