Cosmopolitan

Where did LMFAO come from? Why did you choose that name in particular?
SkyBlu: Well, we're the Sexy Dudes - that was our first name. It's so obvious that we're the Sexy Dudes - when we're walking down the street, panties are dropping, horns are honking, whistles are whistling... So that was the obvious name, but it was too spot-on. So we hit up Grandma Goodfoot on the iChat and said, "What do you think about the name?"

Grandma Goodfoot is on iChat?
Redfoo: Of course she is! Grandma Goodfoot's on iChat, she's taking shots, she's shuffling, she just downloaded iOS 5 for her iPhone...
SkyBlu: Anyway, we asked her what she thought of our name, Sexy Dudes, and she said, "LMFAO, you can't be serious, Beezle and Shneezle."

What's Beezle and Shneezle?
Redfoo: That's what she calls us - Beezle and Shneezle. He's Beezle and I'm Shneezle. The 'h' is silent, though.

Thanks Shneezle. Now your songs have become instant nightclub hits - what does 'party rock' mean to you?
Redfoo: Party rock is rockin' the party. It's an energy, an attitude. You go into a place and you don't wait for the DJ to play that song, or you don't wait for people to get crazy - you walk in (and you're already tipsy because you've been pre-partying before) and you're just like, "Hey, wassup?" "Hey! How's it goin'", "Heeyyy baby baby!" but you're not faking it because you're really excited to be there and you know deep down that you're going to make this party happen. Wherever you go, you're going to make it a funnier place, a sexier place.

What was your favourite party anthem when you were growing up?
Redfoo: Party All The Time, Eddie Murphy.
SkyBlu: That dinosaur song, man!
Redfoo: Puff The Magic Dragon?
SkyBlu: No, man! [Singing] Everybody walk the dinosaur... You remember that? Well, that was my song, maybe it was in my head.

You are both quite similar in age - even though Redfoo, you're SkyBlu's uncle. Do you ever boss SkyBlu around?
SkyBlu: We're more like brothers.
Redfoo: We just have fun - we're pretty smart chaps, so if I'm being ridiculous, I know I'm being ridiculous. If he's drunk and streaking, then I'll take photos and post them on TwitPic, but that's not my fault!
SkyBlu: That's a choice I make!

Do you have any formal dance training? Or did you pick up all your moves from the LA club scene?
Redfoo: No really formal training, just something we picked up. We're just passionate people that just like to dance - we set goals to learn particular dances and we'll do whatever it takes. We used to watch Michael Jackson...
SkyBlu: ...Morris Day, Prince, James to the Brown, Stevie Wonder...
Redfoo: We just mess around, play around. I first figured out that I had one of the coolest walks - that's my claim to fame is the way I walk. I walk the walk and talk the talk!

Where did you learn to shuffle?
Redfoo: A lot of it came from Melbourne.

It's actually the 'Melbourne Shuffle' that you guys do in Party Rock Anthem, is that right?
Redfoo: Yeah, it's a variation of it - that was the first stuff we started singing on, and we'd seen the people doing it in the raves so we started doing it, and we really wanted to understand what it was like. We researched the Melbourne Shuffle and we found people on YouTube called Sarah and Pae and Sarah just had this groove you know… And it took me a while to figure out that everybody had their own groove, everybody was saying, "Oh that's your own groove" but I was like "No, I want to learn his groove…"  [Laughs] We broke it down to a science where anyone can learn how to shuffle because shuffling is really just walking in place - a lot of people think it's running but it's not it's walking. It's a very scientific thing, so everybody has their own walk and that becomes your shuffle. And it didn't really click for me until I realised it was my walk!

Did you ever expect Party Rock Anthem to reach the level of fame that it has? Are you surprised by how popular it has become?
Redfoo: We tried to make it this popular. We wanted it to be this popular. When we were mixing the song we said, "How can we mix a number one song? What does it have to sound like?"

It has to be the whole package: the right song with the right video etc.
Redfoo: Yeah, that's right, the whole package. We knew we were competing against the top, the Lady Gaga's, the Britney Spears', and it's like we had to do something great, something amazing. This was our first song off our new album - this was going to show the world what the album was about.

Catch LMFAO live at Stereosonic 2011, Let Me Breakout U18s Festival and Foreshore Festival.