After spending three hours counting the pores on Elizabeth Holmes' and Nathan Fielder's faces, I couldn't help but think how perfect Yung Miami's "Spend Dat" would've played over the closing credits.Whatever you feel about the veracity of the protagonist in the blockbuster doc You Can See Everything, there is no doubt about her innate ability to cop and blow money fast.
She's probably about as familiar with Diddy's favorite City Girl as she is with Abbott & Costello.But a scammer of such ill repute deserves an apropos theme song.
Hell, maybe we all do.When people complain about hip-hop no longer being political, what they're really talking about is commercial rap's long-fizzled countercultural agenda.The politics of consumption and corruption however have never enjoyed a louder ringing endorsement.
Like a billionaire hogging the bully pulpit.To that end, no song in 2026 comes closer to mimicking the feeling of being the violated and the violator.
On its face, "Spend Dat" is a get-money flex dedicated to all the "scammers" and "booster b*****s." But behind that seductive veneer is the sadomasochistic loop of late-stage capitalism's long, punishing con.An inflation indicator like no other, it's easily our most American anthem of the year.
And we're all transfixed, nodding along in unblinking commitment to the charade.The video for "Spend Dat" feels like a throwback to the early 2000s, when making it rain in strip clubs was still obligatory signposting for selling the dream.It almost feels trite now that prediction markets allow us to place digital bets on democracy and buy-now, pay-later loans keep expanding on our freedom to fall deeper in debt.
At least a good lap dance came with a tangible return on investment.Now we're all just being teased to death.When India.Arie echoed the public denouncement of "Spend Dat" — which included a call for Black folk to boycott the Billboard-charting song of the summer — another film, I Love Boosters, had just hit str...