The Lonely Island Lyrics

The Lonely Island Info:

From:
Berkeley, California, United States

Genres:
Comedy hip hop

Years active:
2001-present

Associated acts:
Justin Timberlake
Rihanna
Akon
Solange
Robyn
Lady Gaga
T-Pain

Members:
Andy Samberg
Akiva Schaffer
Jorma Taccone

Name Origin:
Akiva Schaffer explained:
"So we were all living together in an apartment on Olympic Boulevard in LA, which is a very busy street. And Jorma, being the theater major, decided to bring home a VHS copy of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but then it just sat there long enough that me and Andy were actually the ones that watched it, and of course it's a great movie: Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman.

But still, I wanted to still make fun of Jorm for being so theatrical, so I wrote like a one-act spoof play, I guess you'd call it? A Tennessee Williams-style one, where I was going to have Jorma have to refer to our home as an island in the sea of traffic—the lonely island—and be very dramatic about it.

Then we started calling the apartment the Lonely Island when we were out, as in: "Want to go back to the Lonely Island?" And our first videos were all in the apartment, the little experimental videos that we were just kind of doing. So they were always set in the apartment, we named the videos the Lonely Island."

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