Premiere: Love Ghost, ‘Chasin’ Money and Bitches’

Kevin Bronson on March 26th, 2020

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First, know that fresh-outta-high school Love Ghost aren’t the least bit serious on their new single “Chasin’ Money and Bitches.” The L.A. rockers sound as bratty as any of multi-platinum miscreants who’ve had hits on KROQ, but they fall in more with the play-actin’ bad boys.

What the song reflects, though, is having come of age in an era when popular culture glorifies materialism and hedonism, which makes it the saddest kind of parody: funny but true.

“‘Chasin’ Money & Bitches’ is supposed to be a fun song,” frontman Finnegan Bell says. “There’s a lot to be upset and distraught by right now. Coronavirus, politics, world hunger, mental illness, etc. This song is tongue-in-cheek, and I hope it provides relief and healing to anyone that’s suffering right now.”

Speaking of suffering, the COVID-19 lockdown has put the brakes on what figured to be a big year for Love Ghost. The quintet — Bell, along with Ryan Stevens, Samson Young, Daniel Alcala and Cory Batchler — hit it big with January’s single “Let It All Burn.” But touring plans have ground to halt. This single, produced like their previous one by produced by Danny Saber, will appear on an EP the band has planned for a summer release.

The video for “Chasin’ Money & Bitches,” directed by Julian SK, is a hoot, too.

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