EP Review: Cash Cash, “Cash Cash”

Cash Cash‘s EP channels everything poptastic - from the most recent products off of the Disney conveyor-belt, *NSYNC, and perhaps even High School Musical. The only thing keeping them off the Disney shelves is a lack of excessive promotion and squeaky-cleanness - and for most music fans these days, that can be a huge drawing-in factor.

If you were one of the many teeny-boppers circa 1998, listening to Cash Cash can be nostalgic and yet innovative. I have to give them credit for not laying it on too thick and becoming sticky-sweet. But it’s not as if they’d really have to: by sporting an approachable  ”look at me, I’m cute” style, they could have easily drawn in pre-teens by the thousands – but it’s a bonus in that what they offer doesn’t have a height limit.

“Party in Your Bedroom” will find its way on repeat somehow; there’s really no escaping it. Pretty much every girl in the nation will want to apply the song to them (“pretty girl, it’s your show / let it go when you’re alone”). It’s been a trend of teeny-stars to dance around sex by featuring the webcam or phone during saucy tracks as if they were some sort of barrier method. “Party in Your Bedroom” takes you there and it makes it fun – and whether or not the “it” featured is sex or simply being an avid Myspacer is for the listener to decide.

It’s nice to hear as much energy applied to the aforementioned track as it is to the rest of the EP - including the heartsick and longing “Two Days Old”, and the ardent love song “Electric Hearts”. It all makes for an instant endorphin boost, a perfect hybrid of lite cheese and long-lasting bubble gum that doesn’t leave a funky aftertaste.

Recommended track: “Party in Your Bedroom (Acoustic)”

Photo by Kelly Petry