Shots (LMFAO song)

Music video

The music video for the song was uploaded to YouTube on December 4, 2009. The video was filmed at Tao Beach at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. The video begins with people sunbathing at the Tao Beach pool. Suddenly, Lil Jon, LMFAO, Q, Eric D-Lux, and many others appear out of nowhere and began singing the song. The video also features GoonRock, who later appears in LMFAO's hit singles "Party Rock Anthem" and "Champagne Showers".

Track listings

;Album version

1. "Shots" (Explicit version) – 3:42
2. "Shots" (Clean version) – 3:39

;Digital download

1. "Shots" (Dummejungs Remix) – 5:06
2. "Shots" (Electro Remix) – 4:48

Credits and personnel

• Lead vocals – LMFAO and Lil Jon
• Additional vocals – Eric D-Lux
• Lyrics – Jonathan Smith, Skyler Austen Gordy, Stefan Kendal Gordy, Eric Delatorre
• Label: Interscope, will.i.am, Cherrytree

Popular culture

• 13 years later, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shots was used as an incentive at pharmacies and clinics in North America as a celebratory song for the general public getting vaccinated, being a word play for the COVID-19 "shot" or "jab".
• A variation of the song was used in a television spot commercial for the DreamWorks Animation film, Puss in Boots.
• Bowdoin College's hockey teams play this song when the Polar Bears score a goal.
• The song was used for promotion of the 2012 comedy film, That's My Boy and the 2022 horror comedy film, The Blackening.
• The chorus was used and covered in the 2012 episode "Can I Be Frank (With You)" on American Dad! by Francine (voiced by Wendy Schaal) with Klaus and Roger dancing because of Francine wanting to "party" with her husband (Stan Smith) who instead would rather do it with his friends.
• The song was used as the basis of a parody of The Hobbit by Hillywood Show.
• At the beginning of the video, a teenage girl is reading a magazine with the Jonas Brothers on the cover.
• A small section of the song was used in the film American Reunion.

Charts

Certifications and sales

References

References

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2. (4 June 2014). "The 20 Best Drinking Songs".
3. (31 March 2020). "The best drinking, pub and last-call songs".
4. (27 February 2017). "21 Best Songs About Drinking".
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7. (January 2010). "Shots (Dummejungs Remix) [feat. Lil Jon] – LMFAO". itunes.apple.com/us/.
8. (23 April 2021). "Toronto pharmacy goes all out to celebrate vaccine doses".
9. (22 December 2020). "First to Get Covid Shots Go Viral Online to Inspire Wide Support - BNN Bloomberg".
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