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:cat-vibing: 100 Gecs fans when the worst song you have ever heard comes on
They hit every shitty music trope of the early to mid 2000s, on purpose
I have so much respect for them but i will never listen
Because it is unlistenable garbage that I have, through massive amounts of depression and weed, trained my ear to love, but now can never show to anyone without them saying, "You listen to that?"
It's not "unlistenable garbage " tho. IMO when you listened to music for long enough you start to develop a taste for stuff that sounds different.
If you show it to someone who only listened to stuff on the radio then ofc they will hate it. But show it to someone who listened to some weird experimental shit they might like it.
It is unlistenable garbage. It sounds like the noise an evil AI would pipe in to your occupation cube to torment you for eternity. Idk why I listen to it.
I mean, the people I know that listen to 'weird experimental shit' don't like it because it is not experimental enough. The problem is that it is music of reference, music of memes. Now, being incredibly online, this speaks to me, especially how raw and honest most of the lyrics seem to be, but outside of that, it takes days to train your ear to it.
It's basically the musical equivalent of sadism, but like, recognizable vanilla sadism, but not even that, like a meta reference to recognizable vanilla sadism.
I don't think it's sadism, all things considered, it's still pretty chill and I have fallen asleep before while listening to 100 gecs on the train. To me it's just fun, it's not noise, it's not hard to listen to, and it certainly is not sadistic for me.
Aww man I always thought it was 100 Gex and people just really liked tail time
I wanted to like them but I would rather listen to literally anything else. I guess they're an acquired taste so it shouldn't be a surprise people don't like them. I can believe that people can get used to it train their ears to like it, but do people really listen to it for the first time and go like, "Yeah, that's pleasant to listen to, that definitely doesn't sound like something that would be used as a form of torture?"
That's cool, I just don't really get it I guess, but to each their own :vivian-shrug:
often consider them a (not literally) psyop. They were basically popularity boosted by people with financial interests to promote that kind of music so they could create a cultural shift
When you lack historical materialism, you're forced to come up with weird /pol/ style nazi conspiracy theories to explain the world with idealist false consciousness. "People only make alienated music because of (((them))), not because of their alienation under capitalism"
"The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness." Marx, Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
Yeah I would love to hear more about this, but Zach Hill was an established musician in an underground way before death grips and I have a hard time believing they were an op after they leaked their own album.
Your comment was removed for misgendering Laura (the trans woman) in 100 Gecs
That doesn't make any sense. Laura and Dylan did something unique and people paid attention. The meme factor/novelty definitely helped with the momentum, of course. They were averaging just over 100k plays a month for a while - their rise in popularity was gradual.
Same for Death Grips. Death Grips isn't just completely forgotten, they slowed their musical output and went radio silent. It makes sense that they would fade to just something the fans think about at this point. There's something to be said to about people just burning out on an artist. They put out so much music, so quickly. Can't be in the spotlight forever
I'm just responding to the theory, I didn't mean to make it sound like you specifically. Jpop is good
they just got bigger than they were supposed to, and people who would never have listened to something that self consciously odd and have no grounding in it are now experiencing them as pop music & are forced to have an opinion
the idea that they're an op or that death grips are an op is one of the best things I've heard on here. total support for the cultural division of the cia if so
It feels like listening to a zoomer mediatic cacophony of info overload that you might get when you've got Dream Twitch™ streaming on one monitor, Youtube™ in the other, Spotify™ in the bg, and while playing Roblox/Fortnite all at once
Someone once said that their music sounds like a tortured hamster in a steel mill
My grandpa used to work at the gecs factory in Kalamazoo. It was a good union job with a pension and dental. Then they closed the factory and all the jobs left and now people like Dylan Brady just buy a hundred of them made in China on Amazon!
hatred at them is just redirected hatred at the segment of critics
"I hate the PMC" (proceeds to be a PMC who is only capable of tearing down working class creators)
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