“You think you’re so fucking cool? Huh? You think you’re so fucking tough? You talk a lotta big game for someone with such a small truck!”Īfter some more furiously inventive shit-talking (“Your arms look so fucking cute, they look like lil’ cigarettes / I bet I could smoke you, I could roast you / And then you’d love it and you’d text me ‘I love you’ / And then I’d fucking ghost you!”), the track proceeds into a driving power riff that gives way to the chorus, with its repeating, high-pitched intonation (“Feel so clean like a money machine”), before, finally, exhausting itself in a longish stretch of garbled, downed-out distortion. “Hey, you little piss baby,” Les begins, her voice contorted into a squealing, falsetto Auto-Tune. Standing next to a GMC Sierra, they headbang their matching platinum-dyed mops to a tinny, accelerated beat. In the video, Laura Les and Dylan Brady, the pair who make up the band, swagger around a parking lot. The song was “money machine,” from the experimental electronic duo 100 gecs, who had released the track in mid-2019, as the début single off their first full-length studio album. What was surprising, though, was the immediacy with which I became gripped by what I was listening to and looking at. ![]() My ignorance wasn’t totally surprising: as a mom in my mid-forties, I’m hardly positioned anywhere near the cutting edge of contemporary music. About three years ago, I came across a YouTube video of a band I hadn’t heard of before.
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