The beats are gonna drop tonight

Vita Chambers' "Young Money" is one of those songs I may have a fling with and then quickly move on with little more than one or two glances back, but it's currently on medium rotation in my iPod. Vita is one of those acts who probably seems like she's been around longer than she has, via releasing songs like "Like Boom" to blogs for free download. Though "Like Boom" wasn't entirely unmemorable, "Young Money" is the first time I've been forced to think of her as anything other than "one of those random Internet promotion acts."



"Young Money" reminds me of Cobra Starship's "Good Girls Go Bad," though it's not as infectious as that deserved hit. Still, a shouty, chanty chorus that sounds designed to be sung to a stadium full of people helps ensure the song gets stuck in your head. Vita's cute, fresh-faced look and matching voice mean the song doesn't come across as the ostentatious celebration of rolling in cash its lyricists seem to have been (inadvisedly) aiming for--it ends up seeming more like some sort of empowerment anthem. Unless I'm forgetting something, we haven't really had a female-voiced answer to songs like "Good Girls Go Bad" and "Love Drunk" in the U.S.; Vita may be premature in singing about having money, but "Young Money" is enough fun to make me hope she manages to beat the odds and put at least a small dent in the U.S. charts.

Vita Chambers' proper debut single, "Young Money," can be purchased by Americans on Amazon or iTunes.

(The Beat Review has also recently featured this song.)