What Is The Far East Movement?

What Is The Far East Movement?
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We learn about what true "fly" music is from Far East Movement who is a fresh group taking club music to a new level. The men of FM tell us all about how they keep the energy up and the "Girls On The Dance Floor." Hosted by Larissa Wohl.
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Welcome to younghollywood. com. Hey there, I'm Larissa Wohl and we are catching up behind the scenes with the Far East Movement.
I got a fetish for these kicks, a fetish for these jeans, a fetish for my hoodie gotta have it, I'm a fiend. A fetish for these kicks, a fetish for these jeans, a fetish for my hoodie. I got a fetish, fetish, fetish.
I read up about you and something was said about fly music. Is that what, what is fly music?
Fly is like the scene. It it it is the scene that that is Los Angeles right now. I'd say is Hollywood. The music scene, you got LMFAO, you got Pac Div. You got, you know, numerous amounts of fresh artists that they care about the clothing, they care about the jewelry, they care about how they look.
You guys are kind of multi-faceted. You've done a lot of different things.
We've had a couple like little landmarks here and there. I guess our our first uh really big thing we had a song on the Fast and the Furious 3, Tokyo Drift. On the video game, the soundtrack for the movie. And we had a couple of songs on Entourage.
Talk to me a little bit about where the sound came from.
You notice that the energy of the club is starting to go faster, starting to rise, get more dance-centric. So we thought, yo, let's do our performances around more high energy tracks like Daft Punk, DJ Tiesto, um just Krockers, you know, anything like that.
Girls on the dance floor. Hit single, love it.
What happened was we met up with these producers named The Stereotypes who did Dan Niqueem Damaged, which is a high energy song. We got in the studio with them and within two hours we made Girls on the Dance Floor. And that was, we said this is the sound, this is the new sound for the Far East Movement.
What is that sound? How would you describe?
Party music, you know what I mean? It's just Hollywood lifestyle that we, you know, live, you know, live uh at the clubs. What's up to all the DJs, you know what I mean? Just dancing, girls, drinking, having a good time.
Who would you like to collaborate with at some point?
I'm gonna throw it out there and say Gwen Stefani.
Gwen Stefani.
Let me throw another one out there. How about M. I. A.?
What can someone expect coming to a performance?
You expect a lot of energy. Us giving it 120% and um a lot of fun.
When you're up there and you see the crowd and you're hearing the music and you're just all into it, how do you feel?
I mean J-City told me like, you know, this is behind the scenes. He said, dude, I've actually being on stage makes me feel like an exotic dancer and I've always wanted to do that. So it's like it ends up fulfilling dreams. Now I get to do it in front of a lot of people 'cause usually I give a private show.
'Cause he's a freak like that, this this guy right here.
No, I can tell you guys get along well and have a great chemistry with you guys. How how has that helped?
We're all childhood buddies. I mean, we've all been friends since we're like 15 years old. And um we've grown up together, we see each other every day. So you can't really hide anything. You don't need to hide anything, you don't gotta mince your words. If you think something sucks, just tell them it sucks, you know. And and having that, I think it makes everything a lot faster, a lot easier, and no one's trying to hide anything from each other. Just have a good time.
Yo, what up? We are FM, the Far East Movement, and you are now rocking with Young Hollywood. Keeping it fly, baby. Far East Movement on your dial. Girls on the Dance Floor.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Larissa Wohl
Host of the interview
- LMFAO
Cited as an artist part of the 'fly music' scene in Los Angeles
- Pac Div
Cited as an artist part of the 'fly music' scene in Los Angeles
- Daft Punk
An artist whose high-energy tracks influence their live shows
- DJ Tiesto
An artist whose high-energy tracks influence their live shows
- Krockers
An artist whose high-energy tracks influence their live shows
- The Stereotypes
Producers who collaborated with Far East Movement on 'Girls On The Dance Floor'
- Danity Kane
Artist mentioned in relation to The Stereotypes' work on 'Damaged'
- Gwen Stefani
Artist Far East Movement would like to collaborate with
- M.I.A.
Artist Far East Movement would like to collaborate with
- J-City
Member of Far East Movement, shared a funny anecdote
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