| Millionaires | |
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| Origin | Huntington Beach, California[1] |
| Genres | Electropop, dirty-pop, hip-hop[2][3] |
| Years active | 2007-Present |
| Website | [1] |
| Members | |
| Melissa Marie Green (2007-Present) Allison Green (2007-Present) |
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| Past members | |
| Dani Artaud (2007-2010) |
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Millionaires is a group consisting of two sisters, Melissa Marie and Allison Green, from Orange County, California. The group, formed in August 2007, is widely known for mixing heavily explicit lyrics with a heavy electropop backing. Their image and lyrics have generated strong 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 2012.
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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. Third member, Dani Artaud, also known during the Myspace Scene craze, joined the band after Melissa Marie invited her. Later, they created their second song, entitled "Hoe Down". 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. This plan dissolved, they had a new EP plan with the title of "Shit Bitch" which was later released entitled 'Bling Bling Bling!' The 5 songs that made it to the EP were re-edited by band member at the time, Mark Maxwell. Many 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$CKED UP tour.
In July 2008, they performed on MTV's TRL as part of On The Radar,[4] a segment where popular unsigned bands perform. Performing their MySpace hit "I Move It". The girls returned in January and February 2009 on their Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid tour, which sold out every date.
They also teamed up with hardcore techno dance DJ S3RL and made the MySpace released Martinis & Mixed Feelings which an electro techno remix was made for as well.
They made a short song titled "Ooh Uh Huh", which became the theme song for MTV's reality show A Double Shot At Love with the Ikki Twins.[5] Their song "Hey Rich Boy" was also used as the theme for MTV's Teen Cribs. Their song "Alcohol" was also featured on the soundtrack for the third series of Skins. Their songs "I Like Money" and "I Move It" was featured on the MTV show "My Life as Liz." Their cover of 'Chic's' song 'Le Freak' is featured on the MTV movie 'Turn The Beat Around'. On June 23, 2009, they released a new EP entitled from their new single of the EP 'Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid', which was a resell of 'Bling! Bling! Bling!' just with 2 more tracks.
A clip of the song 'Prom Dress' was released on the Popjustice website on December 8, 2009.[6] Their Christmas song 'Rated Xmas' was released Wednesday December 16.
Melissa and Allison entered the studio in mid September and are now currently recording their first full length album. They have stated on Facebook that they have already recorded 3 songs as of September 2011. In October, a leaked demo appeared online titled "Gangstar". Also at their recent show in Vegas, (11/4/11), they performed a new unreleased song titled "Boss Bitch". They have finished recording the album and it is now going in to its production and mastering stage.
Producers that worked on the upcoming album are Clayton Hawkins, Gods Paparazzi, Far East Movement and Mark Maxwell
The Girls headlined 4 tours: the "Get F$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.
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