"Party Rock Anthem" is a song by American electronic dance music duo LMFAO, featuring British singer Lauren Bennett and producer GoonRock.
[7] A music video was released on March 9, 2011,[8] and was produced by the two members of LMFAO, Redfoo and Sky Blu, with the assistance of Shinzo Ai.
The video features the dancers performing the Melbourne Shuffle, which quickly gained popularity in the United States.
The video's opening caption says that Redfoo and Sky Blu fell into a coma due to excessive party rocking and that their single was released the next day.
Redfoo and Sky Blu exit the hospital into a deserted street full of litter and abandoned cars.
When another young man tries to escape from a building, he is surrounded by the dancers in a style indicative of a zombie horde, before re-emerging with stylish new clothes and shuffling, having been "infected".
Frightened after observing the fate of the other man, Redfoo and Sky Blu begin to dance along with the others, pretending to be infected, too.
Halfway through the video, the previously infected young man dances toward Redfoo and Sky Blu, who look terrified.
The outdoor scenes of the music video were filmed at Warner Brothers Studios "New York Street" backlot,[9] a five-acre site containing the facades of buildings on individual 'streets', recreating eight different areas of the city.
"Party Rock Anthem" was the second-best performance song on the Hot 100 in the 2010s decade (behind Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars's 2015 hit "Uptown Funk", which spent 14 weeks at number one.)
There is a spoof of the song in the popular YouTube web series Annoying Orange, in the episode titled "Party Rock".
[21] The song was also used in a Bat Mitzvah sketch in a Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Channing Tatum,[22] and in Australia's Got Talent 2011, sung by Timomatic.
[27] The song was officially included in the "Interscope Mixtape Compilation" music pack for the VR rhythm game Beat Saber.
[31] UK ISP Plusnet used a cover of "Party Rock Anthem" in an advertisement for their broadband and calls services in April 2012.
In March 2024, Foxtel used the song in ads for their Hubbl smart tv boxes, albeit with the lyrics changed to “Everybody’s Hubblin”.