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title: "I Love Money"

meaning: "Big Hug capitalism satire: hate money but worship the dollar at 30: crypto, GameStop, MLM oils, billionaire mindset drip, finesse the ones you love to be richest one."

year: 2021
release: "Big Hug"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/3dW4LbP8381fYkKBdBxiFn"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3oPQLH-YY"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkWi_2cmFbI"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-love-money/1585121212?i=1585121216"

press:
  - outlet: "Indie Shuffle — I Love Money"
    url: "https://www.indieshuffle.com/scoobert-doobert-i-love-money"

themes: ["capitalism", "Big Hug", "satire", "hustle culture", "class", "meme stocks"]

isrc: QZK6M2182489
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  I hate money
  It's trying to control me
  But when I'm turning 30
  I know, I'll be worshiping a dollar bill

  Money
  My precious ring of power
  I'm billing by the hour
  I know, I'm a born and bred American
  Who loves that money

  Shoulda put it all in crypto
  It's not a gamble when you win
  Maybe I could be a homeowner
  But I can barely pay my rent, oh no

  Gucci
  Bougie
  Billionaire mindset
  How you gonna get that drip

  Sell your friends
  Essential oils
  Multi-level marketing

  Flexing
  No cap
  My killer mindset
  Finesse the ones I love

  Anything to be richest one

  I hate money
  It's trying to control me
  But when I'm turning 30
  I know, I'll be worshiping a dollar bill

  Money
  My precious ring of power
  I'm billing power
  I'm a born and bred American
  Who loves that money

  I shoulda gambled all my student loans
  And rode Tesla to the moon
  I coulda bet my life on Gamestop
  Instead of watching debt accrue oh no

  Gucci
  Bougie
  Billionaire mindset
  How you gonna get that drip

  Sell your friends
  Essential oils
  Multi-level marketing

  Flexing
  No cap
  My killer mindset
  Finesse the ones I love

  Anything to be richest one

  I hate money
  It's trying to control me
  But when I'm turning 30
  I know, I'll be worshiping a dollar bill

  Money
  My precious ring of power
  I'm billing power
  I'm a born and bred American
  Who loves that money

draft: false

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Track four on [*Big Hug*](/albums/big-hug/), and a title that's bait for a switch: *I hate money, it's trying to control me, but when I'm turning 30, I know I'll be worshiping a dollar bill.* Luke solo, October 2021, same satirical lane as [*Don't Worry*](/songs/dont-worry/) and [*I Live in California*](/songs/i-live-in-california/). The chorus runs American pathology through a Tolkien joke, *money, my precious ring of power, I'm billing by the hour*: Gollum energy on hourly work, with *born and bred American who loves that money* as the honest line under the hate.

What dates it is the 2021 finance-bro regret. *It's not a gamble when you win* is survivor bias as ideology, and barely making rent is the same affordability crisis as *swim in the marijuana that no one can afford* on track one. The hustle-culture bridge (Gucci, billionaire mindset, *sell your friends, essential oils, multi-level marketing*) narrows to a confession: *finesse the ones I love, anything to be richest one.* Then the GameStop line writes the January 2021 meme-stock saga into a song months before release. The *oh no* is both punchline and outcome.

Same *Big Hug* thesis: approachable weirdness, class anxiety without the dread, money worship as a cartoon shell around turning thirty.

**Mix / radio-show circulation:** Deep House Cat’s Apple Podcasts episode [*Mountain Hemlock Mix - feat. Dexaville*](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mountain-hemlock-mix-feat-dexaville-deep-house-cat-show/id212654198?i=1000548599173) (January 21, 2022) lists *I Love Money* as track 14 in the published tracklist. Deep House Cat is a syndicated deep-house podcast/radio show — mix circulation, not a Spotify editorial playlist. See [Catalog: radio, playlists, retail, and public-space rotation](/catalog/#radio-playlists) · [Press](/press/#radio-playlists).

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