Millionaires - “Stay the Night”
I love trash. Any music that’s dirty or dingy or dusty, ragged or rotten or rusty, or just devoid of any pleasures but the immediate, I tend to love - or rather, lust - with intense passion. Except Ke$ha. For some reason, her chart-topping blend of grrrl-power confidence, “Jack”-dropping hedonism, and texted-in valley girl vocalisms leave me feeling like that anonymous American the terrorists are supposed to hate… except my sinful, hard-partying ways bring no joy.
Enter (or re-enter) Millionaires, the Myspace scene’s former teen queens of low-talent, hard R-rated electro-hip-hop. Hated by emo messageboarders with unparalleled passion, loved by 219,457 last-generation social networkers, and virtually ignored by the pop charts, Millionaires are basically what Tila Tequila would be if she made music (oh god, I forgot about this nightmare).
Anyway, Millionaires are back, apparently with a new EP coming out. Since their last release, they’ve been out-trashed by the taller and louder Ke$ha, seen the website that made them famous become mostly irrelevant, and learned how to turn their OC-accented half-raps into something actually decent.
Seriously, “Stay The Night,” the best of three new songs Millionaires posted on their Myspace page last week is trash-pop gold, with a bubblegum hook and lite-funk club beat that could totally make your trip to Old Navy and some classic, time-tested, sexually suggestive lines delivered with expert detachment (“so let’s just skip the small talk, don’t mean to be a prick, now let’s get down to business, all I need to taste is your… lips”).
Maybe it’s because, instead of screaming “I’ll fuck you up!” like Tila or looking like they actually gargle Jack Daniels like Ke$ha, the girls of Millionaires turned their sexed-up, party-hearty image into what’s basically a harmless cartoon (see above picture), or maybe it’s just because this chorus is so aerobatically undeniable, but Millionaires have totally made me a fan. At least until I can get this out of my head again.
