![]() After all, they’ve been a bit busy appearing in 50 years worth of Muppet movies and TV shows.ĭr. Teeth and his bandmates for forgetting to cross something like ‘record an album’ off their to-do list. While it’s been a 48-year wait, you can’t blame Dr. The new album, also titled The Muppets Mayhem, is out now via Walt Disney Records and not only features original songs like their 1979 debut single “Can You Picture That?,” the show’s sunny theme “ Rock On,” funky ditty “Gotta Be” and the anthemic “Believe in Us,” but also allows the Muppets band to record covers of Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” by KISS entirely their own. ![]() “Y’know, sometimes you think you do things, then it turns out you didn’t do those things!” Floyd jumps in to explain. “We thought we’d done the album as well.” (“Apparently not!” Janice echoes from the side.) Teeth says of signing a contract with the fictional Wax Town Records - the discovery of which kicks off the plot in the first episode. To call the project ‘long-awaited’ is quite the understatement for many Electric Mayhem fans, but the band insists the wait was hardly intentional on their part. The ten-episode series (out May 10) also stars Lilly Singh, Tahj Mowry and Saara Chaudry, and documents the band’s efforts to finally record their debut album after more than 45 years of rocking out together. “We had the support of the frog, the pig, the bear and everybody else and, you know, we knew we could deliver the goods.”ĭelivering the goods, in fact, is the entire purpose of The Muppets Mayhem. “Yeah, I didn’t feel any pressure goin’ out on our own, did you?” Floyd adds while looking to Dr. “But it was nice to stand out on our own!” “We, like, for sure missed them, you know?” says Janice, the band’s guitarist, dreamily of the rest of the Muppets gang. The sextet of rockers are gearing up for the premiere of their new Disney+ series The Muppets Mayhem, which - somewhat unbelievably - will serve as the band’s first standalone project in their nearly half a century of playing back-up to Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie and the rest of their friends. But it only underscores the undeniable fact: I’m actually talking to T he Muppets. The moment is so utterly surreal that it takes me a beat to remember my next question. “Sorry ’bout that, next question!” he says through his scruffy orange mustache, as a thoroughly satisfied Animal happily devours the snack in the background. Teeth’s velvety top hat, sending his five felt bandmates scrambling to get him under control.Īll it takes is a yummy treat, which wise-cracking bassist Floyd Pepper proffers to Animal with an open purple palm and a relieved “good boy” before turning back to face the camera. In the middle of a question about their appearance in 1979’s The Muppet Movie, Animal - the band’s iconic drummer and de facto mascot - lunges at the feather in Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem has devolved into, well, utter mayhem. It’s only been a few minutes and Billboard‘s interview with Dr. Animal & Floyd Tell Us All About ‘Muppets Mayhem’ Series, Collab With Ringo Starr & More |…
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