We’ve all heard that “I’m looking for a man in finance” song by now, right? The one with lyrics about seeking a very tall, rich man spoken over a sample of seminal 2010s binge-drinking anthem “Like a G6”? Just in case you, like me, are a TikTok-illiterate millennial and aren’t quite sure what I’m talking about, let me spell it out. Earlier this month, a comedy creator called Girl on Couch uploaded a video to TikTok with the captions, “Did I just write the song of the summer?” and “Can someone make this into an actual song plz?” In the clip, she puts on an Alexis Rose-meets-Charli XCX accent and speaks the lyrics, “I’m looking for a man in finance, with a trust fund, 6’5, blue eyes, finance..
.” before descending into beatboxed remix noises. I remember seeing it pop up in my feed and thinking to myself: No, there’s no way this is going to take off.
Who’s got enough time on their hands to join in with that? Turns out...
I’m just old. In what has felt like a fortnight of watching the zeitgeist drift out of reach in real time ( ), the video has become one of the defining memes of the summer. Within hours, the DJs of TikTok had put beats to it: drum and bass, really awful Ibiza house, hard techno, the aforementioned “G6.
” Creators pulled together video montages of handsome banker-looking men grabbing double espressos and power protein salads in their tightly fitting Charles Tyrwhitt suits. (Quite a creepy move, if I’m honest.) Someone mad.
