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 put together 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, trust-fund banker. (Low.) Girl on Couch released the song on Spotify, and EDM giant It’s definitely not a shameful choice. For many years, David Guetta.
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.