Millionaires (group)

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Millionaires
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Melissa Marie Green (left), Dani Artaud (center) and Allison Green (far right) in 2009.
Background information
Origin Huntington Beach, California, U.S. [1]
Genres Electropop, hip hop, [2] [3] crunkcore
Years active2007–present
LabelsIndependent (previously signed to B-Unique and Decaydance)
Members
  • Melissa Green
  • Meredith Hurley
  • Anissa Zermeno
Past membersDani Artaud
Allison Green
Website Instagram page

Millionaires is an American electronic music group currently consisting of Melissa Marie Green, Meredith Hurley, and Anissa Zermeno. The group, formed in August 2007, originally consisted of Green and her sister Allison Green, as well as friend Dani Artaud. The group are widely known for mixing heavily explicit lyrics with an electropop backing. Their image and lyrics generated strong controversy during their early years (mainly for using explicit words in nearly all of their songs). The band released three EPs, several singles—including "Stay the Night", which managed to chart for a short time in the UK, and their debut album, Tonight, released in March 2013. In March 2016 they released a single with producer Wade Martin titled "When I'm Single". Much of their music style was ground-breaking in forming the crunkcore genre. The members are also widely known as being one of the first to become "Internet famous" (such people are now known as "influencers"), gaining huge notoriety and popularity during the "Myspace era" of the mid 2000s within the emergence of social media. The Millionaires are also known for being in the scene genre today.

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History

2007–2010: Career beginnings

Millionaires started on August 14, 2007, (according to their Myspace signup) [4] "as an accident" when sisters Melissa and Allison Green used GarageBand. [1] The song was titled "I Like Money", [1] and the teens then created a corresponding MySpace profile named Millionaires. The third member, Dani Artaud, joined the group after Melissa Marie asked her to join. Later, they created their second song, called "Hoe Down". [5]

At the time of their Myspace debut, they were considering releasing an EP with the title of La La Love or Girls with Guns with their GarageBand songs.[ citation needed ] They then considered the title Shit Bitch before it was released as Bling Bling Bling!. [6] The five songs that made it to the EP were edited by Mark Maxwell; many of their Myspace songs did not make the EP.

They began to perform shows in California and traveled only small distances for gigs. They got spots in music festivals such as Rockin' Roots, Bamboozle Left 2008, and Audio Overload 2008. In July 2008, they went on their first tour, co-headlining with Breathe Carolina across California and other Western states. Later in July, they headlined the Get F$cked Up tour. That same month, they performed their Myspace song "I Move It" on MTV's TRL as part of On the Radar, [7] a segment where popular "hipster" bands perform.

They made a short song titled "Ooh Uh Huh", which became the theme song for MTV's reality show A Double Shot at Love with the Ikki Twins. [8] Their song "Hey Rich Boy" was also used as the theme for MTV's Teen Cribs. Their song "Alcohol" was also featured on the soundtrack for the third series of Skins . Their songs "I Like Money" and "I Move It" were featured on the MTV show My Life as Liz . Their cover of Chic's song "Le Freak" is featured on the MTV film Turn the Beat Around. [5]

The girls started up again in January and February 2009 on their Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid tour, which sold out on every stop, starting in Oxnard, CA and reaching its west coast crescendo on February 23, 2009, at a small, impromptu gig for MTV's " My Sweet 16" bash in Capitol Hill, quickly selling out the cozy venue to die-hard fans and local residents of the hipster dominant, suburban nook of Seattle, WA. They also teamed up with UK hardcore DJ S3RL, DJ Samurai, and DJ Hook to make the Myspace single "Martinis & Mixed Feelings", for which an electro/techno remix was made. On June 23, 2009, they released a new EP, titled Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid , which had three songs from Bling Bling Bling! and two new songs. Their Christmas song "Rated Xmas" was released on December 16. [6]

2010–2011: "Stay the Night", label changes and Artaud's departure

The group were signed to English record label B-Unique in late 2009, and a debut album was set for release in 2010. The single "Stay the Night" was released in early 2010 to promote the upcoming album and the trio embarked on two UK tours for further promotion. Stay The Night was also put forward to the BBC team to represent the UK at Eurovision 2010, but was eliminated by Pete Waterman before reaching the live decisions. The tracks "Prom Dress" and "Microphone" were released online, as well as a sample mix of the album containing snippets of unreleased tracks “That’s How We Party” and “Hush little Boyfriend” from their debut “A Life Of A Millionaire”

After a brief period of no further promotion or updates, Dani had left the group, [9] they were dropped by their UK label, and the planned album had been scrapped. Five songs from their MySpace that had originally been planned for the album, along with "Stay the Night", were released on an EP entitled Cash Only in September 2010. [5]

2012–2014: Debut album and mixtape

The first single from their album, "Drinks on Me", was released on January 31, 2012, on iTunes; Millionaires then released a music video for the song. Ricky Hoover, former lead vocalist of the deathcore band Suffokate, guest starred in the video as Melissa's boyfriend.

On May 15, 2012, their mixtape Your Girl Does Party was released, with tracks featuring Kreayshawn, [10] Trina, Diamond, Shanell Woodgett, Nightclub Fight Club, and Riff Raff. It was produced by Khris Lorenz. [5]

Millionaires released their debut album March 13, 2013, entitled Tonight, featuring 11 songs including the single "Drinks on Me". The album sold 697 copies in its first week. [11] Millionaires embarked on a promotional tour for the album from April through June 2013.

During the tour, they debuted three unreleased remixes: EDM remixes of "Drinks on Me" and "Put It in the Air", both produced by The Knuckledusters and a remix of "Dat Boi" featuring Trace Cyrus of Metro Station. Tonight received negative reviews from music critics. [12] [13]

On March 28, 2014, Millionaires released the free song "Myspace Pic" on their SoundCloud. It was produced by DJ Foreign Warren of The Knuckledusters and was a parody of "Selfie" by The Chainsmokers. [14]

2015–present: Bad Girls Club, singles releases, Allison's departure, & new members

From March to April 2015, Melissa announced they were working on music with producer Foreign Warren of The Knuckledusters. [15]

In early October, they were both cast in the Twisted Sisters season of Bad Girls Club as replacements. They entered in the fourth episode, titled "No Room for T.H.O.T.S.", which aired on April 6, 2016, with another set of sisters; Jaimee and Jazmyn Wallace. They left during episode 8, "OG Overthrow", following multiple confrontations with the Wallace sisters.

On December 18, 2015, the duo released a song titled "When I'm Single" with a music video directed by Wade Martin Handley.

On February 14, 2017, the Millionaires released the single "Rich Girls" for which they collaborated with Caked Up. [16]

On August 14, 2022, Melissa announced that she would continue Millionaires as a solo artist due to Allison deciding to leave the group in order to focus on her work as a photographer. [17]

In June 2023, Meredith Hurley & Anissa Zermeno joined the group. [18] The new members debuted during the Millionaires' performance at So What?! Musical Festival in Dallas Texas on June 24, 2023 [19]

Tours

Millionaires have headlined four tours: the Get F$cked Up tour from July–August 2008 with Hyper Crush, Brokencyde, And Then There Were None, and The Arrival; the Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid tour from January–February 2009 with Cash Cash, I Set My Friends on Fire, and Watchout! Theres Ghosts; the Ka$h 4 Ku$h Tour with Brokencyde, Kill Paradise and The Hit; and their tour, the I Get Around Tour from June to July 2011 with Breathe Electric, Christian TV, Set It Off, and Big Heed and ALIen on select dates. Their latest tours have been the Loaded Tour with Mickey Avalon which lasted from June 3-July 1, 2012, and the Your Girl Does Party Tour which lasted from July 2-July 18, 2012. Also, their album release tour, titled, The Tonight Tour, started April 12, 2013, and continued until mid June 2013. From May 20, 2013, to June 2, 2013, Millionaires toured with Brokencyde in the United Kingdom, Scotland, France, and Germany.

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Millionaires (group)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Millionaires discography</span>

The discography of the Millionaires consists of one studio album, three extended plays, one mixtape and five singles. The group released their debut EP, Bling Bling Bling!, in July 2008, followed by their second EP Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid in June 2009. The EP the now-duo released was a free mixtape, Your Girl Does Party in May 2012, followed by their debut studio album Tonight in March 2013. Various songs remain unreleased with no confirmed release date, such as "Hush Little Boyfriend", "That's How We Party", "Rich Girls", "Not Everyone's A Millionaire", "Hairspray", "Candy Paint", "Beatbox", a song featured on Ashley Purdy's Instagram. As well as two unreleased features one on a song rumored to be "Fuck Me I'm Famous" dubbed "Team Fierce" alongside Jeffree Star and Blood on the Dance Floor and Young Scrap's song "Phantom".

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