“Money Machine” is the breakout single by electronic-pop duo 100 gecs. The song originally found success through a big impact on the modern emo/alternative subculture, and was used within internet memes & TikTok trends. The unusual production, high-energy trap beat, and joking lyrics quickly dre...
[Verse 1: Laura Les]
Hey, you little piss baby
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
Aw, look at those arms
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
[Chorus: Laura Les]
With the big boys coming with the big stuff
I feel so clean like a money machine, oh yeah
Big boys coming with the big trucks
Feel so clean like a money machine, oh yeah
Big boys coming with the big trucks
Feel so clean like a money machine, oh yeah
Big boys coming with the picture
Feel so clean like a money machine, oh yeah (Oh yeah)
[Post-Chorus: Laura Les]
Feel so clean like a money machine
Feel so clean like a money machine
Feel so clean like a money machine
Feel so clean like a money machine
[Verse 2: Dylan Brady]
Tell me what's the deal, I've been tryin' to go to bed
I've been up for days, I've been tryna get ahead
Said it all before, and I'll say it once again
I'm better off alone
Tell me what's the deal, I've been tryin' to go to bed
I've been up for days, I've been tryna get ahead
Said it all before, and I'll say it once again
I'm better off alone
[Chorus: Laura Les]
With the big boys coming with the big stuff
I feel so clean like a money machine, oh yeah
Big boys coming with the big trucks
Feel so clean like a money machine, oh yeah
Big boys coming with the big trucks
Feel so clean like a money machine, oh yeah
Big boys coming with the picture
Feel so clean like a money machine, oh yeah (Oh yeah)
[Post-Chorus: Laura Les]
Feel so clean like a money machine
Feel so clean like a money machine
Feel so clean like a money machine
Feel so clean like a money machine
money machine was written by Laura Les & Dylan Brady.
money machine was produced by Laura Les & Dylan Brady.
100 gecs released money machine on Tue May 28 2019.
Rolling Stone ranked “money machine” as the #18 song of 2019, saying:
‘Money Machine’ is the sound of cross-country duo 100 Gecs kicking in the door to your house with manic grins plastered to their faces. The vanguard song from the internet sensation 1000 gecs is experimental — in a ‘what would ha...
So I just made this beat, [and] saved it as “Money Machine”. I usually look around at like objects, try and find some sort of hint at a file name. Must have been some money on the ground…Beat titles matter, don’t just name it a number.
- Dylan Brady, Song Exploder Podcast, 5/20/20
Laura: So we were thinking about making a band and we needed a name and I, it just so happened, was in the market for a gecko. And so I ordered one online, but I don’t know if I put the input in wrong or whatever, but I was shipped 100 geckos. And that caused a whole mess, but I was just like, “That...
Dylan: I was just starting a bunch of beats for the Minecraft set, that just kind of trying to make some crazy tunes. I had been using this Logic, slide Dobro sound, this country-thing guitar. Thought it would be cool to start it out like that and then go to some super crazy distorted thing. That wa...
With all our songs, we just send Logic sessions back and forth, co-producing and co-writing all of them. So I just sent the Logic session and Laura fucking went crazy on it.