{"id":513068,"date":"2026-07-06T22:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513068\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:22:10","slug":"lauren-bennett-singer-on-party-rock-anthem-dies-at-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513068\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Bennett, singer on \u2018Party Rock Anthem,\u2019 dies at 37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-4df8bc\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cOur hearts are broken, and we cannot begin to express how much she meant to us,\u201d the members of G.R.L. wrote.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-dbd32d\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cWe will forever cherish the love, laughter, and countless memories she gave us,\u201d they said. \u201cHer beautiful spirit touched so many lives, and she will be deeply missed and forever loved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-688440\" class=\"body-graf\">Another member of G.R.L., Simone Battle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/death-x-factor-singer-simone-battle-ruled-suicide-n197911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-9dc92e\" class=\"body-graf\">G.R.L. started in 2011 as a relaunch of the group Pussycat Dolls but changed its name to G.R.L., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/meet-g-r-l-an-ambitious-girl-group-for-the-21st-century-86343\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rolling Stone reported at the time. <\/a>The group was known for \u201cUgly Heart\u201d and was also featured on Pitbull\u2019s hit song \u201cWild Wild Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-bebeed\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">\u201cParty Rock Anthem\u201d was one of two songs by LMFAO to reach No. 1; the other was \u201cSexy and I Know It.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur hearts are broken, and we cannot begin to express how much she meant to us,\u201d the members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-513068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}