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TikTok Star Behind Viral 'Looking for a Man in Finance' Song Says Life Has Completely Changed (Exclusive)
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One TikTok star wasn’t looking for a job in showbiz — but that’s what’s happening.
Nine days ago, creator Megan Boni, who goes by the username Girl On Couch on the social media platform, was just your typical 26-year-old working a day job in sales and making funny videos on the side.
Then her satirical song “Looking for a Man in Finance” went viral. Now it’s been remixed endlessly, has gone viral all around the globe, and Boni says her life has turned completely upside down.
“I haven’t slept. I feel like I’ve been blacked out for a week,” she tells PEOPLE. “I suddenly have an agent.”
Boni, who went to Penn State and moved to New York City after graduation in 2019, adds, “I’m about to hire a manager. I even quit my job!” (She notes that her company was cool about it. “They were like, ‘We get it! You do you,’ ” she says.)
But Boni notes that it’s all been beyond surreal.
“I have calls with major companies. I have all these DJs who want to release the first single with me, so I’m suddenly navigating the music industry,” she explains.
Boni also says that the song is already in heavy rotation at concerts and clubs.
“People are asking if I’m annoyed that I’m not getting credit, and I’m like no way, I literally asked for DJs to remix it!” she says.
Still, Boni adds that she’s looking forward to releasing the official single so she can get royalties.
According to the TikToker, the idea for the song stemmed from making fun of girls who complained about being single but then had a laundry list of expectations for potential partners.
“It was just making fun of that, so I started thinking of the most outlandish, hardest things to find in a man and wrote it down, then I came up with that rhyme.” (The tune goes, “I’m looking for a man in finance / Trust fund, 6’5,” blue eyes.”)
Not only have plenty of people added beats to the lyrics, but the next trend is putting their own spin on the lyrics.
Music producer FINNEAS posted, “I’m looking for the WiFi network. Friend’s house. Hotel. Airport.”
As for what’s next, Boni says the song will be released as a single, and she hopes to make appearances at shows and festivals. She also wants to try her hand at comedy.
“I’d love to take some stand up or improv classes, maybe some acting classes. And I’ll probably head to YouTube,” she explains.
The up-and-coming star adds that her family and friends can’t believe what’s going on.
“I have two brothers who probably hate me right now because everyone keeps asking them about it. But my parents are over the moon,” she says.
Boni adds, “You always hope that your content will get views, but I had no idea this was going to resonate. It’s turned into a monster! The Internet is crazy.”
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The World Bank is ditching its commitment to steer 45 percent of its spending toward projects with climate benefits, after facing pressure from the Trump administration.
The move, announced Monday following a meeting of the bank’s board of directors last week, marks a victory in President Donald Trump’s effort to purge climate policies from U.S. foreign policy. His administration has described the target as “distortionary” and “nonsensical.”
The bank preserved its broader Climate Change Action Plan — of which the 45 percent target was a key metric — just days before it was set to expire at the end of June. In addition to directing money toward climate projects, the plan provides technical support for helping countries reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and adapt to rising temperatures.
“We will retire the 45% climate co-benefits target,” the World Bank Group said in a statement, noting that it had “done significant work in answering client demand and needs.”
The bank’s work on climate “is and will remain firmly client driven, supporting them in delivering on their own ambitions as set out in their national plans and NDCs,” the statement added, referring to the nationally determined contributions countries submit under the Paris Agreement.
The decision to drop the climate finance target follows months of pressure from the Trump administration. People with knowledge of the negotiations said the U.S. was firm that the target must go despite other countries indicating their support for the bank’s climate goal. The U.S. has sway over the bank’s decisions as its largest shareholder.
Beyond the finance target, the Climate Change Action Plan also provides diagnostic reports on countries’ climate and development goals and aims to align lending with the Paris Agreement, which calls for preventing temperature rise from surpassing 2 degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution.
The bank said it would honor a board request to undertake an independent evaluation of the climate plan to determine if it’s helping countries grapple with rising temperatures. The decision effectively extends the plan beyond its expiration at the end of June.
The climate target was supported by many of the bank’s shareholders. It’s also been a prominent signal of the bank’s support for climate action at a time when the impacts of rising temperatures are accelerating.
“This is way, way away from where we should be for a responsible financial architecture,” said one official from a developed country who was directly involved in the negotiations and was granted anonymity to describe internal discussions.
The bank will continue to track and report on the amount of money going to projects with climate co-benefits. It exceeded its own target last year by directing 48 percent of its financing to climate-related projects.
Other climate targets embedded in agreements that govern different arms of the bank will remain, including one for the International Development Association, the bank’s fund for the poorest countries.
Multilateral development banks play a key role in global climate negotiations, where wealthy countries have committed to helping provide $300 billion a year for poorer countries by 2035. That no longer includes the United States, which has left the Paris Agreement and will exit the underlying United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change early next year.
“Targets send enormous signals about an institution’s direction of travel,” said Clemence Landers, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. “At the same time, it’s a sign of the times and the World Bank is doing its level best to not rankle its largest shareholder.”
She believes the bank will continue financing renewable energy projects in countries that want them, despite having dropped its climate target.
“I wouldn’t be shocked if the bank continued to have an extremely robust clean pipeline with or without this target,” said Landers.
The bank says retiring the 45 percent target is part of its shift from a focus on “inputs to outcomes.” It will continue to monitor and report net greenhouse gas emissions across its projects and countries’ ability to withstand climate risks.
“We will continue to report to the Board on progress, including on climate co-benefits, and to contribute to our related joint MDB efforts,” the statement said, referring to its role as a multilateral development bank. “We will explore and discuss ways to better structure our engagement on adaptation, nature and pollution.”
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