Ironic covers of top 40 pop songs are a cornerstone of the metalcore/screamo/crunkcore scenes [RIP crunkcore]. Whether it's Miss May I doing "Swing," Brokencyde doing "Low" or T-Mills doing "Tik Tok," riding the coattails of successful artists who actually know how to write catchy songs is one of the lowest-hanging fruit for upcoming scene bands who are hungry for Youtube views/Facebook likes/Myspace friends [RIP Myspace].
While the bands weren't joking (they always hit you up to buy the song on iTunes), it was always tongue in cheek, like "HAY GUISE THIS SONG IS SO GAY BUT LOL ITS KIND OF CATCHY RITE?!", and the targets were always safely outside the walls of Hot Topic. The scene has stopped short of cannibalizing itself in its ravenous hunger for attention... until now. In what might be the birth of 'postmodern scene', ironic Millionaires covers have been springing up all over Youtube.
Some chubby indie rockers called Caspermask do an ironic cover of "Party Like A Millionaire." Basically the 2K10s equivalent of all those stupid lounge jazz versions of Metallica and The Offspring back in the 90s.
Really, really awful metalcore cover of "Alcohol." They are pretending it's a joke, but you and I know better-- it's like the old days, where you had to pretend you only liked mainstream bands 'for a joke.' Hang in there dudes, soon enough it will be socially acceptable for moshcore bros to non-ironically like Millionaires.
Some dipshit doing an extra-awful vocal cover of "In My Bed" in the living room of his parents' house in what looks to be Fort Lauderdale or something. Bonus points for choosing an old-school Millionaires track off the demo, major demerits for singing into your fist as though you were holding an actual microphone.
What does this all mean?? It could signify that Millionaires have arrived as semi-mainstream pop artists-- possible, especially since their newer songs are pretty damn good ("Stay The Night" is my favorite). Or it could simply be evidence that post-Myspace scene kiddies are out of ideas, and that we'll be seeing nonsense like 'ironic screamo covers' of screamo bands... screamo Chiodos covers, anyone??
