The iconic Muppets rockers are finally getting their chance to shine with their new Disney+ series.
, 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. “We, like, for sure missed them, you know?” says Janice, the band’s guitarist, dreamily of the rest of the Muppets gang. “But it was nice to stand out on our own!”
“Y’know, sometimes you think you do things, then it turns out you didn’t do those things!” Floyd jumps in to explain. “So that’s what happened here.
“That’s right, it was a non-stop rotation of the best and brightest of the music industry!” Floyd agrees and Janice once again pipes up with her classic “For sure!” Co-creator Jeff Yorkes’ motivation to make the series, meanwhile, was much more self-interested: “I just wanted to own a vinyl of The Electric Mayhem,” he says with a chuckle. “And this was my long-winded way of getting it.” The Muppets Mayhem
Meanwhile, Janice’s groovy flower child mentality extends to devoted practices of yoga, astral projection and dream-sharing, as well as a potent allergy to dishonesty. Mumble-mouthed trumpet player Lips, who had all of four lines inhistory prior to the series, turns out to be a walking rolodex of A-list connections; he’s friends with everyone from Zedd and Sofia Carson to Paula Abdul and Paul McCartney.
“If I may say, they’re an analog band living in a digital world,” Yorkes opines. “It’s such the antithesis of who the band is — to hand them a phone and for them to try to operate, they would only screw it up.”
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