The End of America Has an EDM Remix
“Hostile Government Takeover” is both a thing the U.S. is experiencing and the name of a boppy little number topping the iTunes Dance chart.
Over the last few weeks, as I’ve scrolled through my interminable and often distressing Instagram feed, I’ve repeatedly heard a song that both piques my interest and makes me want to crawl into a hole. It sounds a little like Jelly Roll belting in a bottle-service club, and the first verse goes like this: “We’re in the middle of a hostile government takeover/I wanna talk about it but I’ll be late for work/And if you’re sayin’, ‘Wait a minute, who we have to stop this?’/We had one, but you didn’t want that lady in office.”
“Hostile Government Takeover (EDM Remix)” is a fun and tossed-off a cappella song first posted by the politically-minded TikToker AGiftFromTodd, then given the piano-house treatment by producer Vinny Marchi. It currently sits at No. 2 on the iTunes Dance Chart—due in part, I assume, to the amount of pro-democracy accounts on social media using it to soundtrack their flyers advertising various protests, but also because it comes off like an SNL digital short. The song is a little bit of a funny surprise on a Reel, but in toto it is kind of stressful thanks to the truth of its lyrics: The U.S. is in the middle of a hostile government takeover! Elon Musk’s federal looting does feel like a “Nigerian prince” scam perpetrated by a random white man! All this shit does make me want to drink!
