10 Musicians Whose Careers Were Destroyed By Just One Song
8. Literally I Can’t — Redfoo
Remember LMFAO?
Some party music can withstand the test of time, and its messy charm hides the plentiful potential in the later careers of its creators (shout out to the Beastie Boys, Cyndi Lauper, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc).
Some party music is a fun dumb time, and that’s all it will ever need to be (shout out to Iglu and Hartly and the always-underrated 3Oh!3).
And some party music is so intensely annoying, so intentionally depthless and uninvolving, that it almost seems like the creators want you to hate it.
That’s where Miami sort-of-EDM, sort-of-hip-hop, “party rock” creators LMFAO come in.
(Okay Party Rock Anthem is maybe great, but only because it features in the dumb fun classic 21 Jump Street).
Composed bizarrely of a nephew/ uncle duo, this pair won over partygoers and no one else with a string of “satirically” stupid hits from 2009-2012. It’s impressive that the pair never attempted to be taken seriously, but their music nonetheless straddled the line between annoyingly catchy and annoying… Until 2014.
Split off from his bandmate, LMFAO party rocker Redfoo lost the crowd with Literally I Can’t, an unfunny and terminally un-catchy track from 2014. Widely derided as charmless, sexist, and utterly outdated upon release, the song saw its artist fast-track his way into obscurity as he attempted to defend its cringeworthy “humour” and embarrassing “message”.