Millionaires (group)

This article is about the electronica duo. For other uses, see Millionaire (disambiguation).

Millionaires
Background information
Origin	Huntington Beach, California[1]
Genres	Electropop, dance-pop, hip-hop[2][3]
Years active	2007-Present
Website	[1]
Members
Melissa Marie Green (2007-Present) Allison Green (2007-Present)
Past members
Dani Artaud (2007-2010)

Millionaires is an electropop group consisting of two sisters, Melissa Marie and Allison Green, from Orange County, California. The group, formed in August 2007, was widely known for mixing heavily explicit lyrics with a bubbly electropop sound. Their image and lyrics have generated considerable controversy, but they still maintain moderate mainstream success and have a large, dedicated fan base. The group has released 3 EPs and a single, Stay The Night, which managed to chart briefly in UK. Their debut album is due to be released in 2011.

Background

(2007-2009) Early Years

Millionaires started in late Summer 2007 "as an accident" when sisters Melissa and Allison Green used GarageBand.^[1] The song was titled "I Like Money",^[1] and the teens created a MySpace profile, "Millionaires," which corresponds with their song title's reference to money. Later, they created their second song, entitled "Hoe Down".^{[citation needed]} At the time of their MySpace debut, they were considering releasing an EP with the title of 'La La Love' or 'Girls With Guns' containing their Garageband hits.^{[citation needed]} This plan dissolved, they had a new EP plan with the title of "Shit Bitch" which was later released entitled 'Bling Bling Bling!'^{[citation needed]} The 5 songs that made it to the EP were re-edited by band member at the time, Mark Maxwell. A lot of the MySpace released songs did not make the EP.

They began to perform shows locally and traveled only small distances for shows. They got spots in music festivals such as Rockin' Roots,Bamboozle Left 2008,and Audio Overload 2008. By July 2008, they were ready to tour and they went out on their first tour co-headlining with Breathe Carolina across the West coast. Later in July, they headlined the GET F$CKED UP tour.

In July 2008, they performed on MTV's TRL as part of On The Radar,^[4] a segment where popular unsigned bands perform. Performing their MySpace hit "I Move It". The girls returned in January and February 2009 on their Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid tour, which sold out every date.

They also teamed up with hardcore techno dance DJ S3RL and made the MySpace released Martinis & Mixed Feelings which an electro techno remix was made for as well.

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.^[5] 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" was featured on the MTV show "My Life as Liz." Their cover of 'Chic's' song 'Le Freak' is featured on the MTV movie 'Turn The Beat Around'. On June 23, 2009, they released a new EP entitled from their new single of the EP 'Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid', which was a resell of 'Bling! Bling! Bling!' just with 2 more tracks.

A clip of the song 'Prom Dress' was released on the Popjustice website on December 8, 2009.^[6] Their Christmas song 'Rated Xmas' was released Wednesday December 16.

(2011-Present) Debut Album

Melissa and Allison entered the studio in mid September and are now currently recording their first full length album. They have stated on Facebook that they have already recorded 3 songs as of September 2011. In October, a leaked demo appeared online titled "Gangstar". Also at their recent show in Vegas, (11/4/11), they performed a new unreleased song titled "Boss Bitch". They have finished recording the album and it is now going in to its production and mastering stage.

Tours

The Girls headlined 4 tours: the "Get F$CKED UP" tour in July–August 2008 with Hyper Crush, brokeNCYDE, And Then There Were None, and The Arrival, The "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid" tour in January–February 2009 with Cash Cash, I Set My Friends On Fire, and Watchout! Theres Ghosts. They toured the KA$H 4 KU$H Tour, along with Brokencyde, Kill Paradise and The Hit and also their latest tour, the "I Get Around Tour", from June–July 2011 with Breathe Electric, Christian TV (musician), Set It Off, and Big HEED and ALIen on select dates. It was during this tour that Melissa got into an altercation at a stop in Tempe, AZ with local musician Echindna Rulings of Gay Kiss resulting in a Millionaires security guard calling Echinda a "Fag" and "Bearded Troll" and Melissa describing him as being "really mean."

• They also co-headlined a tour across the west coast with Breathe Carolina in July 2008.^[7]
• They played 2009 Vans Warped Tour on the Skullcandy and Hurley.com stages.^[8]
• They played 5 shows in different areas of the United Kingdom in early December 2009. They were scheduled to play a second show in London on December 9, but it was canceled because of a cyst found inside Allison's lower abdomen, which mandated emergency surgery. In May the Millionaires returned to the UK for a mini tour. They played at the Slam Dunk festivals in both Hatfield and Leeds. They played at Middlesbrough Music Live on June 6, 2010.

Discography

Main article: Millionaires Discography

EPs

• Bling Bling Bling! (2008)
• Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid (2009)
• Cash Only (2010)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "MILLIONAIRES [3 NEW SONGS JUST POSTED!] op MySpace Music – Gratis gestreamde MP3’s, foto’s en Videoclips". Myspace.com. August 14, 2007. http://www.myspace.com/millionaires. Retrieved April 23, 2010. 
2. ^ http://www.revolvermag-digital.com/revolver/200905/?pm=2&z=fw&pvieww=992&zin=172&u1=texterity&pg=62&fm=1
3. ^ http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/86395-scrunk-happens/
4. ^ Posted 7/31/08 (July 28, 2008). "7.28.2008 "The Millionaires" perform a live set on TRL. | MTV Photo Gallery". Mtv.com. http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1529568&pid=3103093. Retrieved April 23, 2010. 
5. ^ "WE ARE THE ’A DOUBLE SHOT AT LOVE’ THEME SONG!!! – MySpace-blog | van MILLIONAIRES [3 NEW SONGS JUST POSTED!]". Myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=230323216&blogID=454889830. Retrieved April 23, 2010. 
6. ^ "Millionaires – 'Prom Dress'". Popjustice. http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4263&Itemid=279. Retrieved April 23, 2010. 
7. ^ "Breathe Carolina w/ Millionaires, Brokencyde, Defending The Pilot". http://www.sodajerkpresents.com/show/detail/15832. Retrieved August 11, 2009. ^{[dead link]}
8. ^ "Vans Warped Tour 2010: June 25 – August 15, 2010: Bands Appearing On The '10 Vans Warped Tour". Warpedtour.com. August 15, 2009. http://warpedtour.com/warpedtour/bands.asp. Retrieved April 23, 2010.