Party Rock: Cuz Chicks Love it.
Party Rock: cuz chicks love it.
By A. Wilderbeast
In the modern era party rocking is simply what people like to do.
But where did it come from?
Let us start at the beginning… A long time ago Grog ( the caveman) invented the keg so he could hold vast quantities of beer, so the cave-women would not have to carry so many small vessels to the dwelling gatherings. But these gatherings became very dull after Grogs buddy Frog told the same grunty story about the deer for the fifth time. SO Grog invented the drum, and made all the Cave-women shake it to his beats about how rad the trees growing outside his cave were. Frog went home and built a xylophone, and brought it to Grog’s next party; so Frog got some girls, but not as many as Grog because xylophones aren’t as cool as drums.
Let us also consider what happens when the wrong Dj takes over at your party… You know, the kid who rolls over to your computer and says: “man there’s this awesome song you gotta hear” and immediately you notice he wants you to listen to the song, he just wants you and everyone else to dig on the new Trivium song, which is probably an awesome song, but those three hot girls in the corner are not going to think so. This same kid is going to run into the middle of the floor and start moshing; To wit the three “hotties” will pick up their purses, and strut their cute new shoes to the next house party, the party that doesn’t have a mosh pit. TO be clear: There are hot girls who love metal, but lets face it; they’re not at your party; they are at a concert punching some dude in the face, and “jus’ chillin’” with the band.
Are LMFAO simply rock n’ roll musicians who felt confined by the traditional 3-5 piece ensemble? Did they think electric guitars are lame? Or are they just more pumped on the after party than the show? In their breakthrough hit “Party Rock Anthem” they proudly proclaim “We [are] party ROCK! That is the crew that they are repping…but why must they diss on Lennon and Zeppelin? And why don’t we care? As a guitarist (who has listened to a lot of Zeppelin and Lennon ) how am I to square my pure love of party rock with their distaste for rock n roll royalty? Good thing I don’t have to.
Party Rocking is not a lifestyle choice, its a birth-style, its a lifestyle that chooses you, and there’s no operation that can change it. All you can do if you find that you suffer from this affliction is apologize. I ski past families who are horrified by my exuberance, I just nod my head, and say “sorry”. One of my skiing compatriots was saying “Sorry for Partying” at least a year before the before-mentioned album came out; I wonder if someone told RedFoo…
Substantively there is really nothing there. The music is not complex, and its not going to teach you anything. But do we need to learn every time we listen? There is of course more complex music in the Party Rock Genre, Calvin Harris included. As someone who spent a lot of their life listening to serious heavy music often centered around extremely depressing issues, (Metallica, Slayer, Lamb of God, and similar) I have come to know the value of music that means nothing except dance and make merry. Listening to System of a Down, is a lot like going to a politics and the media class, if your professor had just eaten a pile of mushrooms and was convinced the world might end next week unless you save it today. Time and place; all things in moderation? All I’m saying is that when you are in the mood to not be in a “mood” Party Rocking IS good.