https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TH5ibABP4U
these funny screamo boys were so ahead of their time with their silliness. The bourgeois class traitor music critics sneering at them sound like they were born 100 years ago and are already dead in the ground:
Brokencyde is widely panned by critics. Cracked.com contributor Michael Swaim said the band sounded like "a Slipknot-Cher duet",[20] while another Cracked contributor Adam Tod Brown commented on their song FreaXXX "I hate that song so much that I would hold it face down in a bathtub until it drowns if I could."[21]
I hate unfunny radlib comedians so much I would [THREAT REMOVED BY MODS]
British comic book writer Warren Ellis considered Brokencyde's "FreaXXX" music video "a near-perfect snapshot of everything that’s shit about this point in the culture".[22]
Is that curmugeonly fucker still alive? He should stop writing his whiny comic books for other adolescent gen-x manchildren and die already because this just sounds like the rattling of some dusty old bones
A writer for the Warsaw Business Journal attempted to describe their music: "Imagine an impassioned triceratops mating with a steam turbine, while off to the side Daft Punk and the Bee Gees beat each other to death with skillets and spatulas. Imagine the sound that would make. Just try. BrokeNCYDE is kind of like that, except it also makes you want to jab your thumbs into your eyeballs and gargle acid."[23]
no need to gouge your eyes because a "business journal" writer has no soul anyway.
The New Musical Express stated in a review of I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!, that "even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother’s letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment."[24]
bloodless consumerist swine: "Wtf this corporate product doesn't make me feel nice, this is evil!"
"This 'Albucrazy'-based band has done for MySpace emo what some think Soulja Boy did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance art that exists so far beyond the tropes of irony and sincerity that to ask 'are they kidding?' is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to reassemble the pieces futile."
:party-sicko:
The aesthetics of the "crunkcore" bands were much more noxious than 100 gecs' aesthetic. They appropriated Black musical forms in order to mock them. They were trying too hard to fuse two very different styles of music and wanted you to be conscious that the fusion was ridiculous. They were embracing and exaggerating the differences in the two styles of music they were combining. 100 gecs and all the other genre-bending zoomer acts are ignoring genre barriers rather than forcing them to break. A soundcloud rapper who brings in pop-punk and emo influence isn't doing it purposefully to exaggerate the contrast between the two styles, they're doing it organically because they happen to like both kinds of music.
as someone who’s listened and played screamy music for years, screaming always sounded about as adventurous as distorted guitars.
the pop beats dont slap, they’re making music videos from their parents model Bluth Homes between Community College classes with local highschool students with nothing to do before their shifts at Old Navy and the frozen yogurt kiosk at the mall 40 mins away by car because there’s no public transport. or it could be one of those LA suburbs, theres no way to tell them apart. it’s a celebration of white mediocrity, and I dont think satire helps that at all.
like, how can you think it’s a joke if you knew actual people like this?
tbh I think they're on it. That was one of the most unpleasant songs I've ever listened to. Pretty good 'so bad it's good' material tho.
100 Gecs is the first band I feel too old for. I never listened to their influences as I was a wrong generation kid.
I can see how brokencyde is innovative in a sense, terrible as their music is. I just don't see how 100 gecs owes anything to them.
It's like saying death grips proves that soulja boy was innovative.
Now that I think about it, death grips feels much more comparable to 100 gecs in terms of a blending of styles.
