SIMP FOR BILLIONAIRES
Curtsy Juni is a certified simp, and she simply MUST tell you about it. Her new comedy music video, “Simp for Billionaires” is here in all its psychedelic Euro pop freaky arthouse glory. 🍭
Curtsy Juni and “Simp for Billionaires” is the bizarre brainchild of Casey Jane, a dynamic theatre and media artist in KC and the Founding Artistic Director of Rising Tide. Under threat of existential crisis in 2020, she concocted this strange song, envisioning it shot-by-shot, as a way to give herself a new challenge, particularly as an editor. Over the next few years, she roped a few of her amazingly talented friends into the madness, and together they birthed this colorful fever dream into reality. ✨
“Simp for Billionaires”
A Comedy Music Video
Created & Edited by Casey Jane
Featuring Casey Jane, R.H. Wilhoit, & Austin Taylor Smith
Cinematography by Patrick Poe & Lolo Loren
Composed by Hellerud
Music Produced by Peter Eddins
Lyrics by Casey Jane
Set Design by Seth Jones
Color Grading by Guy Giaimo-McClung
Directed by Katelyn Baron
A Rising Tide Production
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LYRICS:
I wake up
Put on makeup
Feeling so fresh and fine
I eat stuff
I feel so tough
Think I’m gonna get in a fight
The buzzy glow of the screen is calling my name
My fingers are ready and I get on my game
The comments start flowin
And the heat starts growin
I wanna freak out
And I’m so proud to shout…
[Shots of her typing aggressively into a glowing social media screen, laughing maniacally intermittently with serious gazes, with internet debate text overlaying on the screen with comments from her such as “Jeff Bezos worked for his wealth..” “The American Dream is not dead…”]
That I simp for billionaires
They don’t even know who I am
But I simp for billionaires
I love them so strong, and they’ll help me along the way…..right?
I simp for billionaires
They are just like us, I’m sure
So I simp for billionaires
It’s not even a question
Why would I question them?
Why?
Why?
[Talking interlude]
They have...it’s so much money...I could get some of that money, probably...for myself, because of boosting them up on social media, you know...they’ll see me, and they’ll be like, “hey, Curtsy, you really, you know, helped me out by posting about me on social media, and here, here’s this billion dollar investment into your startup, your company where you make jewelry out of found items. Congratulations Curtsy, you did it, and I’m so proud of you.”
[Slight beat]
I simp for billionaires
Everything’s out of control
And I simp for billionaires
They/You won’t/can’t tell me no
I don’t know, you don’t know, we don’t know, they don’t know, we all don’t know
But we especially don’t know,
About the flow of information on the internet so,
I can manipulate their senses
Configurate the algorithm with my best defenses
Get them to love me
To discover me
To betrothe me
To make me
A trophy wife
A perfect trophy wife!
A perfect trophy wife
Of somebody like Jeff Bezos!!
Yes please, Jeff Bezos!!
If you’re looking for a wife, I’m here Jeff! Here!
It would change my life, please Jeff, I’m here!
I’ll take money from the poor
And leave my fingers sore
From stroking on your penis
That’s not a real penis
Because it’s made from androids
Really tiny androids
I could learn to love those androids
If you would only let me
Into your space Jeff,
I’m not a waif, Jeff
But I could be good to you
If you’d only let me love you in the way
I simp, I simp, I simp and simp
I only simp and simp and simp
I lovingly simp and simp and simp...
I simp all the way down
Down to Bezostown…
Simp and simp and simp and simp
I only simp and simp and simp
I lovingly simp and simp and simp...
I simp all the way down
I simp for billionaires
Only billionaires
We have a special connection
I simp for billionaires
Only billionaires
They really get me
You wouldn’t get me
Like billionaires do
We’re so close, I know
So I simp for billionaires
They’ve got my back,
They’ve, they’ve got my back…
CONTENT WARNING: This video contains adult themes and images that may trigger photosensitivity. Viewer discretion is advised.