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Here’s a slightly dubious addition to the 2009 Summer Jam Contest That Music Writers Insist On Holding Even Though It’s Pretty Obvious That The Winner Is Probably Going To Be “Don’t Stop Believing” From Here On Out: the crudely opportunistic “Just Got Paid, Let’s Get Laid” by the Millionaires, a noisy electro-rap jam that starts off with some braying about being in the VIP section, includes a bit making fun of minimum wage earners, and has a bridge that pays homage to both “Baby Got Back” and the comments section at Absolute Punk, who are, shall we say, not big fans.
The Millionaires are three young ladies from (of course) Los Angeles who parlayed some screwing around with GarageBand and recession-flouting lyrics (their first song was called “I Like Money”) into gigs writing themes for MTV fodder like A Double Shot At Love and Teen Cribs, as well as a deal with Decaydance Records. They remind me of a sort of American Apparelized version of electro-leaning bands like Avenue D that were all the rage on this coast a few years back, and I suspect one’s tolerance for them can be mathematically determined by a formula involving age, 2008 earnings, and number of times that person has uttered the words “Things can’t get any worse, can they?” in seriousness. Although you could at least say that the Millionaires’ all-about-the-money ethos is a sign that global economic woes haven’t completely decimated the Last Night’s Party scene yet. Uh, yay?
Millionaires [MySpace]
Just Got Paid, Let’s Get Laid [YouTube]
Millionaires Never Forget To Floss, For Better Or Worse
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Holy shit. I thought OC Weekly(they’re from Orange County) was pretty dumb for covering this band a year or so ago, but that is kind of the norm for their local act coverage. I can’t tell if you like this or not, Maura. If you do, then 30H!3 and Brokencyde are two other new artists that we should all hear next, right?. They are a good argument as to why technology, in regards to making it easier for people to make music, is a very bad thing.
ps…I keep setting off the Regina Spektor banner. It’s simultaneously chilling me out and pissing me off.
*by “they’re from Orange County”, I meant Millionaires. Huntington Beach, to be exact.
@MayhemintheHood: I’m kind of stymied by it, to be honest. Although this < “Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell,” for sure.
@Maura: That song was pretty dumb, too, but then again it’s funny and the beat is actually kinda cool. I’d show it to my friends for us to kinda laugh at and bob heads for a second. Millionaires sound like a bag of mashed up assholes.
@MayhemintheHood: “sound like a bag of mashed up assholes.”
OK, awesome. Also: EWWWWWWW
What a horrible horrible chorus. I mean, I like the idea, having sex on pay day, but the sound, its awful!
@thesemodernsocks: I too would go on record as saying that having sex on pay day is a good idea.