"Party" aloof alpha for electro-pop duo LMFAO

NEW YORK (Billboard) – With adventurous distinct "I'm in Miami Trick" breaching the boilerplate during the summer and admission anthology "Party Rock" peaking at No. 33 on the Billboard 200, electro-pop duo LMFAO capped off a able 2009 by accepting a Grammy Award choice for best electronic/dance album.

The duo begin out about the choice afterwards blockage its Facebook page.

"A fan wrote, 'Congrats on the nomination!' We didn't alike apperceive we had submitted anything," says Stefan Kendal "Redfoo" Gordy, who works alongside his nephew, Skyler "Sky Blu" Gordy. "But our ambition has consistently been to be the better bandage we could possibly be. It acquainted like this was declared to happen."

Redfoo and Sky Blu, who are the son and grandson of Motown Records architect Berry Gordy, alarm themselves as "the atramentous sheep of the family" for absence academy to accompany agreeable careers. Afterwards spending years honing a club-ready aggregate of hip-hop and electronica, the brace cut "I'm in Miami Trick" (known as "I'm in Miami Bitch" in its unedited form) in 2007 and handed out 1,000 demos at the Winter Music Conference in Miami that year.

"We put our buzz numbers on the CDs, and girls would alarm and acquaint us how abundant they admired the song," Redfoo says. "We got it played in a club, and anybody was singing forth by the additional chorus."

LMFAO spent the abutting two years writing, bearing and bond "Party Rock" afore the disc was appear July 7, 2009, on Interscope. "Miami" has had the best appulse on pop radio, and LMFAO has angry to added media to advance consecutive singles: "La La La" was featured in the TV appearance "So You Think You Can Dance," and the Lil Jon accord "Shots" was acclimated as the affair song to absoluteness appearance "Jersey Shore."

Having captivated a headlining expedition January 2, LMFAO will accompany the Atramentous Eyed Peas on their North American bout alpha February 4 in Atlanta. Redfoo, who has accepted that group's Will.i.am back average school, sees a affinity in letters amid the bands. "We're both 'lifestyle' bands," he says. "We appetite to be a soundtrack to people's lives in the affair realm."