Party Rock Anthem

About

"Party Rock Anthem" is a song by pop duo LMFAO. Along with "Sexy and I Know It," it was one of the group's most successful singles. Online, the song and it's music video have been featured in various remix memes and shitposts.

Origin

"Party Rock Anthem" was released on January 25th, 2011.^[1] It was the second single off LMFAO's album Sorry for Party Rocking. It features Lauren Bennett and GoonRock. The music video for the track, uploaded to YouTube on March 8th, 2011, has garnered over 1.5 billion views (shown below).

Spread

The track was a global hit, charting in multiple countries and reaching number one in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. In Australia, it is the best-selling single of all time, and it is the third-best selling digital song in the United States. Billboard^[2] ranked the song the fifth-most successful song of all time. LMFAO performed the song at Super Bowl XLVI with Madonna.

Every Day I'm Shufflin'

Every Day I'm Shufflin' is a catchphrase based on a line from "Party Rock Anthem." The phrase has inspired the snowclone the "Everyday I'm X'in", which has frequently been used in image macro captions and animated GIFs. Remixes and parodies of the music video have been prevalent online since its YouTube debut in March of 2011.

The "Party Rock" shuffle is a loose interpretation of the Melbourne Shuffle, a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia. The basic movements in the Shuffle consist of a fast heel-and-toe action with hand movements suitable for various types of electronic music.

Following the launch of the music video in March 2011, LMFAO introduced a line of t-shirts with the slogan "Everyday I'm Shufflin." On April 15th, 2011, the first YTMND site titled "Everyday I'm Shufflin" was created, which featured a GIF from the 60s Spider-Man animated series.

Party Rockers In The Hou Se Tonight

Party Rockers in the Hou Se Tonight is an anti-meme using intentionally misspelled lyrics from t "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO.

The earliest known instance of the modified lyrics used as an anti-meme was featured in an edited webcomic featuring Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler submitted by Redditor RadioWatch to /r/bonehurtingjuice on October 8th, 2017 (shown below).

Party Rock Anthem BPM

In the autumn of 2018, several posts grew popular on Twitter in which a clip from the song's music video was overlaid with another song, with the poster noting the other song had the same BPM (beats per minute) as "Party Rock Anthem" (which has a BPM of 130). On September 18th, Twitter user @Josejusejo created a remix where the opening to Neon Genesis Evangelion was overlaid with the video, gaining 104,000 retweets and 207,000 likes (shown below).

In the following weeks, several other posts using the same joke with different songs grew popular. For example, Twitter user @StanLewis_ posted a version with "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel, gaining over 145,000 retweets and 351,000 likes (shown below, top). User @blueboxufo tweeted an example using Dropkick Murphy's "Shipping Off to Boston," gaining over 210 retweets and 500 likes (shown below, bottom). The meme was covered by The Daily Dot,^[3] Uproxx^[4] and Mashable.^[5]

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