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July 1, 2009

Millionaires Is Basically Brokencyde But With Girls

There are things that young people do in the full flush of youth that can have surprising and unexpected results later in life. It's not uncommon for someone getting on in years to regret not having taken better care of their body, or wish they had been more conscientious to the medical and familial results of unprotected casual sex, or grimace at the now faded, warped tattoo that they got on a drunken dare in college. I'm not saying there can't be some pride in these battle scars, but it is often the impulsive decisions we make when we still feel invincible that later stand as near-permanent reminders of just how vincible we actually are.

My point is that one day the ladies from Millionaires are going to look back on their lives, and the whole thing is just going to seem like one giant misshapen discolored tattoo of a hideous spider right on their fucking metaphorical face. ("Thanks" for the tip, Joseph.)

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wow... seriously?

Posted by: Carms at 07/01/09 11:06 AM | Reply
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What..... the fuck...... was that?

Posted by: Fart at 07/01/09 11:07 AM | Reply
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When one woman does something, all women do that something. It's like what Chaka Kahn says!

Posted by: sarah palin in reply to Fart's comment at 07/01/09 12:33 PM | Reply
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Godsauce

I suddenly understand misogyny, which makes my misanthropy complete.

Posted by: Godsauce profile link at 07/01/09 11:10 AM | Reply
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An American Patriot

I just VO--OH-OH-AH-AH-AH-MITED!

Posted by: An American Patriot profile link in reply to Godsauce's comment at 07/01/09 2:12 PM | Reply
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Stereos are basically Millionaires but with clowns.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9l4eg_stereos-summer-girl_music%20

Posted by: bearface profile link at 07/01/09 11:16 AM | Reply
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I think the director's cut of this video just introduces a lot of unnecessary themes that don't help deepen the song's exploration of the dynamics between financial stability and sexual arousal in any meaningful way. I much prefer the original cut's austere directness to the bloated vamping of the longer edit. Other than that, great song*.

* Pro-Tools effect.

Posted by: Narrowstrife at 07/01/09 11:17 AM | Reply
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That was insane, that is all I can muster right now.

Posted by: Bread at 07/01/09 11:18 AM | Reply
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RobinRubbermaid

"Let's invite a bunch of guys to our hotel room, get them wasted, and then humiliate them." Good thinking!

Posted by: RobinRubbermaid profile link at 07/01/09 11:21 AM | Reply
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Millionaires and Brokencyde toured together. Fuck.

Posted by: MGoAndy at 07/01/09 11:25 AM | Reply
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Yeah, girls. Way to level the playing field! You did it, you showed them!

Posted by: katietherabbit at 07/01/09 11:28 AM | Reply
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audrey

Those are the homeliest-looking trannies I've ever seen.

Posted by: audrey profile link in reply to katietherabbit's comment at 07/01/09 3:03 PM | Reply
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If this isn't a sign of the apocalypse then I don't know what is

Posted by: Jenn at 07/01/09 11:31 AM | Reply
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Guys, I accidentally had sex with all the girls from Millionaires, what should I do?!

Posted by: ben (signing in is messed up?) at 07/01/09 11:33 AM | Reply
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Tom Foolery

Well, the next logical step after getting la-a-a-a-a-aid is clearly to get pa-a-a-a-a-aid, then you get la-a-a-a-a-aid... on second thought, just visit your local clinic, or chop it off and save yourself the drive.

Posted by: Tom Foolery profile link in reply to ben (signing in is messed up?)'s comment at 07/01/09 12:07 PM | Reply
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haha whateverrr! you wish!

Posted by: allisun in reply to ben (signing in is messed up?)'s comment at 07/08/09 8:33 PM | Reply
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Josh is like Germany Ambitious and Misunderstood

Is this really made for my generation? Good God. On behalf of my generation, I hereby apologize for this and Brokencyde to Gabe and everyone who posts on this story. This is a total embarrassment.

Posted by: Josh is like Germany Ambitious and Misunderstood profile link at 07/01/09 11:34 AM | Reply
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smiles

In addition to this, I would like to apologize for every fad/musical success that our generation can be held accountable for, which has inevitably led to Millionaires. I am so, so sorry.

Posted by: smiles profile link in reply to Josh is like Germany Ambitious and Misunderstood's comment at 07/01/09 12:14 PM | Reply
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I've been doing it wrong this whole time! My next date is drinking champagne from a dog bowl in his underwear. THE CRYSTAL DOES NOT NEED YOUR FINGERPRINTS.

Posted by: Funtastik at 07/01/09 11:43 AM | Reply
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I cannot sign in, it seems. Is the lawnmower man on strike because of Lindsay?

Posted by: Funtastik in reply to Funtastik's comment at 07/01/09 11:46 AM | Reply
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This is why I hate scene kids. I actually heard of these people about a year ago, around the same time I heard about brokencyde. And that's when I knew all happiness had gone from the world. These bands(?) are basically dementors.

Posted by: .bryan. (what's going on?) at 07/01/09 11:44 AM | Reply
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I like how several of their lyrics refer to how terrible they know they are.

Posted by: Kelly at 07/01/09 11:49 AM | Reply
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Like bryan said above, heard about this band not too long ago. It's a real shame what passes for music these days....and you think this was bad....listen to their song "Talk Shit".

Posted by: EPICponyz at 07/01/09 11:49 AM | Reply
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Wow... this makes Brokencyde sound good in comparison...

and no I'm not going to listen to Brokencyde to make sure

Posted by: E-Swag at 07/01/09 11:51 AM | Reply
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makes uffie look like missy elliott.

Posted by: chrismcgowan at 07/01/09 11:52 AM | Reply
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I saw about the first five seconds of this video. The rest of it was blocked by the palm of my hand on my face.

(insert icon of a stick figure looking down at his hands, because this damn site doesn't like my account today)

Posted by: Elliot at 07/01/09 11:52 AM | Reply
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Being a 1700 year old vampire scientologist vegan, I can tell you that america is starting to look a lot like Rome...when it fell, from bad music.

Posted by: theglowing at 07/01/09 12:08 PM | Reply
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I've been trying to ignore these girls for a year now and now they're invading my personal e-space.

Posted by: jacob666 at 07/01/09 12:13 PM | Reply
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zombie bryan, by the way. Not the Other one.

Posted by: .bryan. (what's going on?) at 07/01/09 12:15 PM | Reply
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Eww. No.. What is this? Just... No.

Posted by: Zingers at 07/01/09 12:25 PM | Reply
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This is sad. Very sad.

Posted by: sarah palin at 07/01/09 12:36 PM | Reply
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So is this song about them getting drunk and buying gigolos? It seems that them getting laid is reliant on their ability to get paid.

Posted by: zzyzx can't sign in at 07/01/09 12:44 PM | Reply
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Years later when history writes about this chapter it music, it'll be called "The Dark Ages." Basically we just threw away all that crap about song-writing and being able to sing and replaced it with white-kids who can't rap and have a hard-on for auto-tune. I think we can all collectively say: FOL (Fuck Our Life)

Posted by: Peter at 07/01/09 12:47 PM | Reply
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Wait guys, I have just received my weekly pay, but I'm having trouble figuring out what I'm supposed to do next.

Posted by: Jon at 07/01/09 1:06 PM | Reply
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Betty Friedan is spinning in her grave so fast that she's condensed into a neutron feminist, also referred to as a pulsorry.

Posted by: Andy at 07/01/09 1:21 PM | Reply
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Oh god! In Canada, Stereos are really popular and they are terrible! They play them on the radio all the time.
Wow, Millionaires...where to start. Let's just say that "Ouch" tag has never been more accurate.

Also, people at Videogum and Stereogum, why am I not allowed to log in!? The horror!

Posted by: Aaron at 07/01/09 1:24 PM | Reply
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When I found out all my ex-girlfriends had formed a band I knew it was going to be bad. I never imagined it would be this bad.

Posted by: DotheFeedback profile link at 07/01/09 1:25 PM | Reply
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I've also just figured out that you can downvote yourself. Good. To. Know.

Posted by: DotheFeedback profile link in reply to DotheFeedback's comment at 07/01/09 1:33 PM | Reply
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Sharkleberry

If you watch that video with the sound muted and Animal Collective playing it is actually less unbearable.

I'd certainly like to gut these symbols of corporate greed in music and festoon their entrails about MTV studios.

Posted by: Sharkleberry profile link at 07/01/09 1:41 PM | Reply
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fuckin' thing sucks.

Posted by: todd gack at 07/01/09 2:15 PM | Reply
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VideoGummyBear

In Chile (Country in South America that is), the emo/Smasheveryothergenreyou can has evolved into a band name Kudai... heres the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EfBs7LbogA. Its like My Chemical Romance meets Jonas Brothers Meets Gloria Estefan

Posted by: VideoGummyBear profile link at 07/01/09 3:16 PM | Reply
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Major Estefanage, but where's the bit that sounds like My Chem? I was waiting and it never came.

Posted by: dangerobby in reply to VideoGummyBear's comment at 07/01/09 11:48 PM | Reply
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this just may be the worst song i've ever heard.

Posted by: monica at 07/01/09 6:43 PM | Reply
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I just got through the whole thing. This must be what watching Salo feels like.

Posted by: smiles at 07/01/09 6:55 PM | Reply
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haha, that sounded like vomit

Posted by: sol at 07/01/09 10:38 PM | Reply
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heronimous

oh man.. so this is ACTUALLY a thing now.. it's not just brokencyde sucking out their on a limb.. all by their lonesome..

this depresses me.. i knew as i got older and werthers hard candier that new fangled muzik would stink.. but i didn't know it would be this bad..

Posted by: heronimous profile link at 07/01/09 10:58 PM | Reply
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I can't. I just can't.

Posted by: grizzlybaroo profile link at 07/01/09 11:10 PM | Reply
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Gabe, now I understand why you wanted to stop fake rap. Without fake rap I don't believe this would ever happen.

Posted by: Zzyzx profile link at 07/02/09 12:08 AM | Reply
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I love it! It's a total minstrel show and honestly no worse than most of the shit rap videos out there featuring guys doing the same thing with strippers. Except uh some of them actually have access to decent music.

Posted by: HN1 at 07/02/09 2:14 AM | Reply
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"no talent just lucky but they still wanna fuck me"
- somebody's daughter

Posted by: dave at 07/02/09 3:06 AM | Reply
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I rarely speak in hyperbole (note: I always speak in hyperbole) but I can safely say, without a hint of it, without any exaggeration, that this is the worst song I have ever endured in my life. Ever. And I don't just mean "The Worst". I mean, hands down, the worst, the absolute worst.

My life will now forever be divided from the point before I heard Millionaires, and the time after, when I get the shakes every once in awhile, when my friends stop asking me to go to shows because "you've changed, man", when I lash out at my girlfriend for unknown reasons, because I'm just in a really fragile state right now, Amy, and you don't understand, no one understands what I've gone through. No one GETS it.

Thanks a lot, Gabe.

Posted by: disgruntled hipster no. 416 at 07/02/09 5:13 AM | Reply
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Every hooker knows you get the money before the sex. You're not allowed to make statements about the portrayal of use of women in music videos if you sound like that. It's a rule. If you don't like this or Brokencyde, listen to a group called Hollywood Undead. I dare you.

Posted by: blah at 07/02/09 6:22 AM | Reply
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tiredandwired

Where is the member of the band whose biggest contribution to the band is "fog machine and lights"?

Posted by: tiredandwired profile link at 07/02/09 1:39 PM | Reply
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Man I knew my daughter would be something one day, singing songs about getting paid and getting laid, thats my girl!

Posted by: Proud father of one of the girls in millionaires at 07/02/09 4:09 PM | Reply
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Man I knew my daughter would be something one day, singing songs about getting paid and getting laid, thats my girl!

Posted by: Proud father of one of the girls in millionaires at 07/02/09 4:10 PM | Reply
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PaulD

So.
This is either an important and interesting sociocultural document, in that girls are bending gender stereotypes and behaviours, bringing them to their most extreme conclusions to show the patriarchal recording industry the error of its ways, or it's a COMPLETE PIECE OF SHIT.

Posted by: PaulD profile link at 07/02/09 7:32 PM | Reply
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that one girl really likes hats

Posted by: "I cant sign in like everyone else" kate at 07/03/09 12:51 AM | Reply
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I now have this song stuck in my head. Thanks.

(cause i just got pa-a-a-a-a-aid, let's get la-a-a-a-a-aid)

Posted by: emily at 07/06/09 1:01 AM | Reply
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I just took a shower and now I feel dirty. Great. I need to go scrub my brain out with hydrochloric acid.

Posted by: pajamasquid never signed in before so why bother now? at 07/06/09 11:32 PM | Reply
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CRAP!

Posted by: Carlos at 07/15/09 11:20 AM | Reply
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mk

Who plays this music? Where does it come from? I know it's not on MTV and okay, I admit that I'm 25 going on 50 and the only radio I listen to in the car is NPR, but I CANNOT fathom stations playing this. Are stations playing this? Or is this the final straw in the internet's "shut it down" coffin?

Posted by: mk profile link at 07/15/09 8:59 PM | Reply
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Word on the street is that they play warped tour, brokencyde plays warped tour. This leaves me with the dilemma, who do I throw water balloons at?

Posted by: PANDA at 07/18/09 9:40 PM | Reply
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