Turtleneck and Chain, the new album from The Lonely Island, debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts, right behind Adele and, um, NOW That's What I Call Music 38. Yeah, the music industry ain't what it used to be. But still, congrats to them Lonely Island boys.
Along with their upcoming album Turtleneck and Chain, the Lonely Island are offering up three different faux movie posters for your ordering pleasure as well. Ghost Butt-sters in particular looks like it's got a lot of potential. [via]
The Lonely Island's sophomore album, Turtleneck & Chain, drops on May 10th. And here's the cover art, which really stays true to the album's title. I smell a future overused Halloween costume!
On December 3, 2005, SNL, in an episode hosted by Dane Cook, aired a video sketch called “Lettuce.” In the video, then-newcomer Andy Samberg has a heart-wrenching conversation with Will Forte about a lost loved one, during which each of them casually take big bites from heads of lettuce. The video, based on an idea by Forte and directed by Akiva Schaffer (of sketch trio The Lonely Island with Samberg and writer Jorma Taccone), received a lukewarm reaction at the time but introduced a groundbreaking new ingredient to the dusty SNL formula: the digital short.
Two weeks later, when Samberg teamed up with Chris Parnell for a [...]
Here's Wilmer Valderrama's — sorry, Eduardo Fresco's — new music video for a song called “The Way I Fiesta,” directed by The Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer. I am not quite sure I understand what this is for, if anything, but apparently Valderrama's alter-ego "started in a boy band named Chicos en Fuego, a group whom rejected Enrique Iglesias," and this is his big comeback video. OK! In any case, this is what The Lonely Island would make if it were a Ricky Martin joke cover band instead of three dorky white dudes from Berkeley.
UPDATE: Seems like it's got something to do with this.
The full tracklisting for The Lonely Island's Turtleneck and Chain has been unveiled, and with it a list of the folks guesting on the album. In addition to the Justin Timberlake, Akon, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj tracks we're already familiar with, we've got Snoop Dogg, Beck, Michael Bolton, Santogold and SNL's Keenan Thompson contributing as well. Yes, Michael Bolton. Amazing.
Despite being raised on Weird Al and Adam Sandler, I've never been a fan of musical comedy. The notes, they're so distracting! So it's a testament to their superb quality that my heart thrilled to hear The Lonely Island has announced their new album Turtleneck and Chain will drop May 10. It'll be a little over two years since their previous album Incredibad, which brought us "Lazy Sunday" and "Dick In A Box," as well as served up cameos by T-Pain, Justin Timberlake and, of course, Norah Jones in February 2009. If you weren't looking forward to the guys' new jams, might I remind you of a [...]
Looks like the guys from The Lonely Island have been working on some new songs, as their second album is set to come out sometime next year. Hopefully that means that we'll start seeing some videos for the first few songs on episodes of SNL in the near future.
Snoop Dogg stopped by drop some sweater-related rhymes for Lonely Island's "Turtleneck and Chain" title track, which begs the question: is there anything thinner than an insect stripper pole? Please leave your thoughts in the comments.
Here's the newest Lonely Island video, for Turtleneck & Chain's third single "We're Back." It's also the first video of theirs to not debut on SNL, instead airing for the first time on Fallon on Friday night. It's got all the Lonely Island hallmarks you've come to expect: rapping about sexual dysfunction, getting a horse blood transfusion, and CGI Garfield sex fantasies.
From this past weekend's New York Times Sunday Magazine, a quick profile of the Lonely Island guys: A novelty hit like “Eat It” was really only funny if you were familiar with “Beat It,” but a song like “I’m on a Boat,” which features Samberg and Schaffer rapping aboard a yacht, lovingly spoofs every over-the-top hip-hop video. And if the boasts in “I’m on a Boat” are intentionally funny — has there ever been a better yachting-based taunt than “I got my swim trunks/And my flippy-floppies/I’m flipping burgers/You at Kinko’s, straight flipping copies”? — the song itself could pass as the best track in the Hot 97 rotation.
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