{"id":2443404,"date":"2019-04-25T01:34:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=827091"},"modified":"2019-04-25T01:34:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:34:49","slug":"watch-lsds-vibrant-performance-of-no-new-friends-on-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-lsds-vibrant-performance-of-no-new-friends-on-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch LSD\u2019s Vibrant Performance of \u2018No New Friends\u2019 on \u2018Ellen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-25-at-8.30.47-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lsd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lsd\" data-tag=\"lsd\">LSD<\/a>, the supergroup made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/labrinth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_labrinth\" data-tag=\"labrinth\">Labrinth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sia\" data-tag=\"sia\">Sia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/diplo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_diplo\" data-tag=\"diplo\">Diplo<\/a>, kept things colorful on the stage at <em>The Ellen Show<\/em> during a performance of \u201cNo New Friends.\u201d The performance, the group\u2019s first live appearance together, featured a cartoon-like backdrop and a brightly colored costumes, and saw the trio acting out a wildly choreographed rendition of the song.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, Diplo sits atop a cartoon elephant and plays the drums while Labrinth moves around the stage with a microphone. Sia, as usual, keeps her face hidden as her trusty stand-in Maddie Ziegler dances in her stead alongside a mini Labrinth before a group of kids pop out of the floor. The vibrant performance, which is like something out of a children\u2019s cartoon, evokes the fantastical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sia-diplo-labyrinth-lsd-no-new-friends-video-822990\/\">music video<\/a> for \u201cNo New Friends,\u201d which also starred Ziegler and was directed by Dano Cerny.<\/p>\n<p>LSD dropped their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-labrinth-sia-and-diplos-welcome-to-the-wonderful-world-of-lsd-820937\/\">debut album<\/a>, <em>Welcome to the Wonderful World of LSD<\/em>, earlier this month. \u201cWhen we got the chance to do LSD, we jumped at it, and it\u2019s one of the most creative projects I\u2019ve been involved in,\u201d Labrinth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nicki-minaj-collaborator-labrinth-on-how-big-pun-and-the-beatles-inspired-majesty-710417\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> of the group. \u201cWe dress up in crazy outfits, mess around with <em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s<\/em>-esque visuals; we\u2019ve created animations for the band. You can be ballsy and be out there. It feels like you\u2019re not the frontman, so it allows us to go as crazy and as fucked up as we want to go. And that works for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-lsd-vibrant-performance-no-new-friends-ellen-827091\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSD, the supergroup made up of Labrinth, Sia and Diplo, kept things colorful on the stage at The Ellen Show during a performance of \u201cNo New Friends.\u201d The performance, the group\u2019s first live appearance together, featured a cartoon-like backdrop and a brightly colored costumes, and saw the trio acting out a wildly choreographed rendition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 22:33:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}