Eylsia stretches herself a bit beyond her comfort zone and makes it to somewhere refreshingly honest on “Where’s the Money?." The song is designed to feel silly on the surface, all too thin and flimsy to bear much weight. It brims with sarcasm and venom, which together mask a fierce accounting of ambition, excess, and the emotional cost of pursuing the wrong version of success.
Written in response to years of living way too fast in Hollywood, the song perfectly captures dizzying cycles of reckless spending, falling hard, and waking up one day only to ask yourself a question we’ve all asked at least once, Where did it all go? Eylsia serves it with humor and clarity, not bitterness. There’s a disarming quality to how she makes fun of her former self while still revering the lessons learned along the way.
The song’s true heartbeat lies in the Filipina strain in Elysia’s roots. The humor, hustle, and resiliency she was raised around seep into the DNA of this track, making it warm and charming. It does not sermonize or wallow, it sees, shrugs, and continues on its way. That balance is why the song feels universal, even as it sounds unmistakably hers.
Elysia's “Where’s the Money?” is not only a financial one, it’s about survival and perspective, about how you make meaning once the illusion is gone. It’s a reminder that growth does not always look or sound polished and predictable, and sometimes the most powerful songs are the ones that laugh while telling the truth.
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