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The Brains - Money Changes Everything

It's become undeniably evident that the president of the United States had a sexual fling with a porn star while his wife was pregnant. Right before the 2016 election, his lawyer paid Stormy Daniels off with $130,000. POTUS denies the whole thing.
I'm so sick of money and the terrible things that it enables. It's pretty obvious no one in the GOP or Trump's base is going to bat an eye at this little hush money cover up. What it reveals about the soul of America is no surprise, but still troubling. Yeah, money changes everything. Even the core values of religious zealots and fiscally conservative nut jobs. But, we should have known that. The Brains called it back in '80. "You think you know what we're doing. We don't pull the strings. It's all in the past now. Money changes everything."


The Brains were a hard rocking quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. For their 1980 debut, Steve Lillywhite stepped in to the production role, added a little signature, Cars-y keyboard and transformed them into new wavy gravy. Lillywhite had just wrapped up working with U2, Peter Gabriel and XTC. "Money Changes Everything," which would later become a hit for Cyndi Lauper, is arguably the best song on the record. From the opening break up scene in the car to the realization that the singer's friends are all fake, the lyrics are compellingly fatalistic. Tom Grey repeats the chorus and by the second time through, you're joining in. As you sing along, a tear slides down your cheek at the realization that, perhaps, the moral arc of the universe actually bends toward dark corruption. 



Fun fact: Their bass player went on to join The Georgia Satellites.

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