3OH!3: 'Don't Trust Me'

First things first, let's explain that name. It's pronounced "three oh three" and rather than being a trendy piece of txtspk, it actually refers to the Boulder and Denver area code in Colorado, where electro hip-hop duo Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte came together. Mixing frat-boy humour, rapping and dance beats, they've been compared by friendly reviewers to the Beastie Boys, while the less generous ones have suggested they're this year's answer to Iglu & Hartly.

Where you stand on 3OH!3 will inevitably depend on how you take their supposedly 'ironic' lyrics about "hos" and girls with "trust funds". However, we doubt even knuckle-dragging Limp Bizkit fans will be amused by this chant: "Shush girl, shut your lips, do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips." If you can dig beneath the 'irony', there's a half-decent pop tune wrestling for attention here, which explains why they've recently nabbed a support slot with Katy Perry. Sadly, however, 30H!3's (delete where applicable) parody/misogyny is just so uninteresting and lacking in humour that it's unlikely you'll notice the music much anyway.


> Click here to watch the 'Don't Trust Me' video