No romance without finance: Songs about money (opens in new tab)

In the same period, more or less, when ABC and Pet Shop Boys scored top twenty pop hits with songs mocking their own avarice, Gwen Guthrie couldn’t get “Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But the Rent” a hearing. “Ain’t no romance without finance” sounds like another confession of affected greed, but the next line is the […]