MINION SONGS MOVIE

After all, Yeat is known for making up words in his songs, and the Minions have been speaking in their own language for years. Once the shock value of hearing Yeat rhyme about “pulling up in a Tonka with all of the Minions” wears off, the collaboration starts to make more sense. At one point, he even passes the mic to a Minion, who delivers the line: “Ha (Huh?), hey Mel, la bastichi/ La papaya, du la potato (Yeah, la potato, oh, yeah).” The 22-year-old rapper isn’t in the film or even on the official soundtrack, but his song “Rich Minion” is playing in the background of every Gentleminions TikTok video, and fans are moshing to it inside theaters. On the three-minute song, Yeat affectionately refers to the Minions as his children while they babble nonsensical words in the background, before he hilariously brags about all the money he made from the collaboration.

There’s another force at play here, too, though: Yeat.

His TikTok video racked up over 30 million views in just a few days, and thousands of people joined in on his joke, watching Minions with the level of reverence usually reserved for classical symphonies.īefore long, some theaters even started banning formalwear because attendees were getting too rowdy, and now the trend is contributing to eye-popping box office numbers: The Rise of Gru just shattered the record for the biggest film opening on Independence Day weekend, pulling in $125.1 million. On opening day, a fan named Bill Hirst filmed himself with a group of friends in suits and ties, enthusiastically watching The Rise of Gru. This is the work of ironic teenagers on TikTok.

MINION SONGS MOVIE

In movie theaters across America, self-described Gentleminions have been dressing up in suits, buying tickets to Minions: The Rise of Gru, and treating the animated children’s film like it’s a sophisticated Broadway play.Īt this point, you might be wondering when and how the Minions franchise suddenly became high-brow entertainment. Well, it didn’t.

If you came across a pack of suit-wearing teenagers this weekend, quietly discussing the artistic merits of Minions and muttering about “counting money,” you weren’t alone.

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