The Electric Mayhem gets to making an album in The Muppets Mayhem trailer
Finally, we get a full-album follow up to the banger that is "Can You Picture That"
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Move over, Daisy Jones And The Six! There’s another faux 70s rock band ready to tell their own “making the album” story, and they actually have six members in the group (sorry, Camila). The Muppets’ Electric Mayhem band—featuring the members of Dr. Teeth, Animal, Floyd Pepper, Janice, Zoot, and Lips—are ready to craft the album of their careers (and the first one at that) in Disney+’s trailer for The Muppets Mayhem.
Starring Lilly Singh (Dollface) as young music executive Nora, the musical comedy series follows Jim Henson’s Muppet musicians as they embark on finally putting down some tracks for a full-length record… 45 years into their career. Though, that creative process will face some turbulence as “the old-school Muppet band comes face-to-face with the current-day music scene as they try to finally record their first studio album,” reads Disney+’s synopsis for the show.
In the trailer, we see teases of those modern-day music industry woes, like Animal facing the content grind of staying relevant via TikTok. Another issue arises from what looks like a fandom war started on Twitter (where else), pitting The Electric Mayhem against the scariest of online stans: the Bey-Hive and the Swifties.
Alongside Singh, Saara Chaudry (The Breadwinner), Taj Mowry (Baby Daddy), and Anders Holm (Workaholics), the cast features guest stars like Lil Nas X, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Ben Schwartz, Danny Trejo, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Bloom, Nicole Byer, Paula Abdul, Tommy Lee and plenty of others accompanying the Muppets group in the faux musical documentary-style show.
In a similar vein to Daisy Jones And The Six, we’re also getting a full-blown fake album from The Electric Mayhem, with former 4 Non Blondes singer and Grammy-nominated songwriter Linda Perry producing the soundtrack. The Electric Mayhem will be available to stream starting May 10th, with a vinyl pressing coming out on May 12.
The Disney+ original series was developed and written by executive producers Adam F. Goldberg (The Goldbergs), Bill Barretta (The Muppets) and co-executive producer Jeff Yorkes. Michael Bostick, Kris Eber and The Muppets Studio’s David Lightbody and Leigh Slaughter also join the project as executive producers.
Get ready to jam out when The Muppets Mayhem premieres all episodes on May 10, streaming on Disney+.
20 Comments
I felt nothing.
Get your hand out of there.
I like Muppets! I like tv shows! And I like Muppet tv shows!
Will they address how The Electric Mayhem kicked out the original trumpet player in the mid 70s?
You mean Petra Worst?(Actually, she was given the name Dolores by her puppeteer while working on the film The Muppets, though I don’t know if it’s been officially canonized by Disney yet.)
She’s part of the Muppet Theater orchestra, not the Mayhem.And that’s a rock fact!
I’ve been rewatching the original show and I swear to god that she played with the band a couple times in the first season! However, I am unwilling to put any effort into proving this, so I shall just stamp my feet and declare I am right.
The Muppets’ Electric Mayhem band—featuring the members of Dr. Teeth, Animal, Floyd Pepper, Janice, Zoot, and LiI didn’t expect this to go into adult film territory.
Well, their very first TV special was subtitled “Sex and Violence”, so…
See if the felt carpet matches the felt drapes
cast features guest stars like Lil Nas X, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Ben Schwartz, Danny Trejo, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Bloom, Nicole Byer, Paula Abdul, Tommy Lee and plenty of others…and now I want a Rachel Bloom Muppet show, with CXG-style music.
I’m not sure Bloom could withstand the heckling of Statler and Waldorf.
Also, Adam Schlessinger, who wrote a LOT of the music for the series, died of Covid. 🙁
In the Muppet Cinematic Universe, has Danny Trejo been released from his Russian Gulag?
How much you want to bet that the Henson company (or whoever has owned the Muppets) has actually put out an album of Electric Mayhem music at some point in the past?
They haven’t, actually. The Electric Mayhem certainly shows up on a few tracks of various Muppet albums, but the only Muppet Show character to get their own album is Rowlf.
There has not been. They’ve had a track or two on some of the compilations and movie soundtracks, but never an album of just the Electric Mayhem.The only characters to get solo albums are Miss Piggy (a workout album, ‘cause it was the 80s) and Rowlf (which came out in the 90s, but was all unreleased stuff Jim recorded before he died).
Looking forward to it. I just hope they didn’t reveal all the cameos in the trailer.
Has anyone ever put The Electric Mayhem into the Steamed Hams meme? “Aurora Borealis, shining down on Dallas” — in this part of the country?
will there be a cameo by the Riverbottom Nightmare Band?