We've all heard the song “Looking for a Finance Guy” by now. It's set to a sample of the 2010s drinking anthem “Like a G6,” and the lyrics talk about looking for a tall, rich man.
Just in case you're a TikTok-naive millennial like me and have no idea what I'm talking about, let me explain. Earlier this month, a comedy creator called Girl on Couch uploaded a video to TikTok with the captions, “Did I write the song of the summer? Can someone make this into an actual song?” In the clip, she speaks the lyrics in an accent that sounds like a mix between Alexis Rose and Charli XCX. “I'm looking for a guy in finance. Has a trust fund, 6'5″, blue eyes, finance guy…” before descending into beatbox remix noise.
I remember seeing it pop up in my feed and thinking, “No, this is not going to be trending. Who has time for this?” After all… I was just an old guy. It felt like I'd been watching the zeitgeist slide out of reach in real time for about two weeks.Please don't leave me behind. I have Starface stickers and Bloom! I know what's cool, I promise!), the video became one of the internet's iconic moments of the summer.
Within hours, TikTok DJs had added beats like drum & bass, truly awful Ibiza house, hard techno, and the aforementioned “G6.”. The creators made a video montage of handsome banker-esque men in fitted Charles Tyrwhitt suits grabbing double espressos and power protein salads. (A pretty creepy move, to be honest.) Someone made a PowerPoint about which type of finance guy is best for dating. (Private equity took the top spot.) Someone else calculated the odds of actually meeting a blue-eyed, 6-foot-5-inch-tall banker with a trust fund. (Low.) Girl on Couch released the song on Spotify, and a slew of DJs, including EDM titan and man who's made absolutely no embarrassing choices in recent years, David Guetta, have started playing samples of the song in actual clubs.
My first reaction after seeing a video of twentysomethings going wild for a woman reading out her Match.com preferences aloud was, “Yes, thank goodness, Gen Z is finally I had a truly embarrassing moment. We millennials have had to endure the 'nom nom' but they have to endure drinking and partying with this.' And if you, too, have deep memories of a DJ circa 2012 blasting Cassette Boy's 'Nick Clegg Apology Song' to a gleeful crowd on a sticky dance floor at Sours, here you too can rejoice in the misfortune of others. Give it a go.
