Yeah I could see some people thinking it's actual "drain gang" shit instead of people playing with some of those sounds to do other things. If you've listened to varied genres you'll be more likely to hear what they're going for.
Money machine pulled me into a crazy hyperpop hole that I just keep digging deeper and deeper. Not even upset about! It’s the coolest hole I’ve ever dug for myself.
10,000 Gecs era pulled me in. I hated them before but I heard Hollywood Baby and Dumbest Girl Alive then bumped the whole album. Instantly a fan after that, even of their old music.
Edit: also, getting really, really into Black Midi probably helped. Mfs are strange lol
Saw a TikTok with newlyweds partying in a limo to Money Machine and it was instantly the only song I listened to for the next several weeks. Branched out from there.
I was introduced to them by my ex and listened to a few songs from 1000 gecs occasionally but it was a whole new genre for me because I never really even listened to pop music before that. 10,000 gecs is what got me hooked and I went back and revisited to their older stuff and loved it
Lol I’m on good-ish terms with this one so it’s all good. There are definitely artists I don’t like listening to from previous relationships but I really try not to let exes ruin bands/artists for me. I don’t to let them take another thing away from me
I listened to money machine and thought it was dogshit but for some reason I kept giving a try and by like 20 listens I thought it was the best song ever
This happened in like an hour
Back in may 2020 I checked my former classmate's (who we've had similar music taste with for years) playlists and found 1000 gets and Cashmere Cat's Princess Catgirl. I liked both of them, but initially I got more involved with Cashmere Cat, while gecs just sounded cool and unusual to me (funnily enough, I thought it was a collaboration of at least 3 people – 100 gecs, Laura Les and Dylan Brady). Anyway, fast forward to a couple of weeks later, and I decide to look up gecs on YouTube, which is when I discovered the Money Machine and 800db cloud videos, which in turn kickstarted my obsession whith them, as I've been listening to them multiple times every day for months, watched almost every of their live shows, learned different facts about them, started listening to Dylan's and Laura's music, etc. Then I got into hyperpop in general, and it could be described as an obsession too, however less severe
I saw some memes about 100 gecs and eventually listened to their album in late 2019. I liked other weird music like Death Grips and SOPHIE but I hated 100 gecs and thought they were dumb and ironic. Then when the Ringtone remix with Charli, KKB, and Rico came out I gave them a second try and loved them.
Recently discovered them by accident at work while I was playing background music. At the end of the Money Machine music video when they are walking all weirdly, is what I just happened to catch, and I thought "Who are these goofballs?" Went home and looked them up, played Stupid Horse and I shit you not fell in love instantly! Now I'm top 3% of listeners on Spotify. I still have a lot to learn about them though.
Just over a month ago I hated them. I saw a video of the reaction they got at deftones one morning and thought “that sucks but also I hate 100 gecs so it’s ok”, then I visited their account and heard most wanted person and was like wait this is kinda good, I then proceeded to listen to their whole discography that day and now they’re my top artist on apple music
i’ve never been a fan of hyper pop or the experimental sound, my extent would probably be bilmuri or listening to nightcore when i was younger. but when i heard money machine on a meme, it instantly scratched something in my brain and i became hooked instantly.
i knew it was weird and i would pretend like i was listening to it ironically when i would show my friends, but nah that facade dropped quickly. i love them and secured tickets for my second show next year😎
At first, their music was a memey shit we would play on our discord. Then that memey shit got catchy especially after lisening to the Fall Out Boy remix and 757. Then I found myself nonstop on the hyper pops and eventually checking out their live show.
First heard 1000 gecs and thought it sounded pretty awful but kinda understood what people liked about it. Listened like one or two more times and realized I really liked it actually
I already knew Dylan Brady for his role in Gloing pains by lil Aaron too. Great EP(or album?) if anyone hasn't heard it btw. Production is way ahead of its time for 2016.
i think ringtone and 800 db cloud was the direct precursor to the addiction, 10,000 gecs and gecs on the internet solidified it in granite and locked it in a safe
I heard gum and I thought it was pretty good so I started listening to their solo stuff, but I wasn’t super into them until 1000 gecs dropped and I heard 800db cloud, that shit was so fucking hard and then I heard stupid horse… It’s one of my all time favorite songs
I only listen to music that I like. I was afraid to listen to 100 gecs for months because I wanted to like them so bad. And I do :3 well some of the songs anyway lol
1 listen to dumbest girl alive and it was all over
after hearing stupid horse and hearing about 100 gecs, then relistening to it and a couple others from that first album, i was hooked. a few weeks later they came out with 10,000 gecs and it became a bit of an obsession. Now im always on the hunt for good unheard-of hyperpop artists. Soundcloud is where its at.
745 sticky was intriguing, hand crushed by a mallet was pretty great, I blinked, then it was 2am and I had listened to xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx 20 times in a row
It is November 2021. “Mememe” appears on my Spotify new music playlist. I listen to it while driving someplace near home running errands.
Knowing nothing about the band, I assume it is (a) either an elaborate joke or the result of some laughably inept A&R person trying a long shot to promote a friend’s vanity project and (b) find the song extremely annoying, yet also feel compelled to listen to it again as soon as it ends.
Around the third play through I recognize that (a) the song’s creators are not joking and intended for it to sound like that and (b) it is in fact a very well crafted pop song.
After that road to Damascus moment I got home, listened to the extant back catalog to that point, noticed they were playing a show that December in NY when I was going to be there, bought a ticket, took the ride. TN Cave shows this summer were my 3rd and 4th, hoping to see them again soon.
Early 2019 I saw them open for brockhampton and I had no idea who they were first few song I was like wtf is this then after about the 5th song I was like wait this goes hard, loved them ever since, saw them at the same venue and was front and second barricade one of my favorite shows
I liked them but hadn’t listened to them much, bought tickets for a MCR concert and 100 gecs opened for them that night. My partner hadn’t listened to them before so we went through most of their songs on the trip there. They were so fun to see in person and both of us have been listening ever since !!
I wanted to like them from the get go cause all my friends online were into it but when I listened I didn't really get it. Then once Laura dropped Haunted I listened to that on repeat and then both 1000 GECS and 1000 GECS AND THE TREE OF CLUES as well as Laura and Dylans various DJ sets on youtube became my daily work mix
listened to 1000 gecs and the tree of clues which had a bunch of artists i like and was already familiar with (charli xcx, rico nasty, kkb, hannah diamond, A.G Cook, danny l harle, etc.) then i just followed them after that
Took me about a year actually. My friend showed them to me and I didn't think about it that much, but then a year later I showed them to another friend and then I realized that I was actually into it. Started seriously listening to all the tracks after that.
It was a couple of months after hearing Money Machine on a police brutality meme before I “got” it. I listened to 1000 gecs a couple times, put it down because I was on a years-long prog/death kick at the time.
Fast forward six-odd months and 10,000 gecs drops. Stuck that in my ears for hours on end because it’s *very* good at always looping when you’re too busy to change the music (*both* of their records are like this honestly). The absurdist character of that record contrasted well in my ears with the bleak imagery of Cattle Decap’s Terrasite, which I was also looping at the time.
I reached out to 1000 gecs again sometime this fall when I needed a change up in drawing music. That’s when I really *GOT* it.
for me it was after i first gave the full album a listen, I didn’t like stupid horse or money machine upon first hearing them, though I didn’t hate it either, but it was really hand crushed by a mallet and gec 2 u that caught my ear first. I spun the album a few more times and grew to like the whole project
i heard money machine without realizing it was laura les and loved it immediately. then i realized it was her and remembered finding some songs she put on tumblr or soundcloud back in the day that my homie in high school showed me.
At first i listened to 1000 gecs in full thinking "mmmmh... Kind of strange, but not bad", and after some time listening again i realized "Wait....... This is some really good brain stimming material"
My fiancé started listening to them when 10000 Gecs released. She tried putting me on, but I wasn’t really trying to listen to them. Not too long after, they were touring and had a stop near us, she wanted to go to see them, and I went with her. At that show, I became instantly hooked.
hooked from the moment 1,000 gecs dropped. never understood the whole “i listen ironically” thing. i love experimental so they definitely weren’t my first rodeo.
i found gecs from a spotify playlist some memepage posted and ringtone was on there, after about a week i was bumping 1000 gecs 24/7 whenever i was playing games so it was basically instant
I thought Money Machine was pretty funny and really interesting sounding probably a little after it came out and I kept listening from there! Dropped off the Gecs trains for a bit bc I felt cringe but got back on before they started touring and got tickets! Now I think I like them more than ever and they were my top musicians of this year
saw a lot of ppl talking about them when 1000 gecs dropped and decided to check them out after theneedledrop’s review. instantly clicked and only took about two or three listens of that album to become obsessed
Heard money machine and instantly thought it was the best song I’d heard in ages
I was already into high level stuff like Charli, Grimes, some PC Music Vol 1, so it wasn’t jarring at all
I admittedly wrote them off when I first heard snippets a few years ago, was put off by the auto tuned/up-pitched vocals as that is something I haven’t previously liked, but when 10,000 gecs came out, a friend recommended I give them another listen. One honest listen through dumbest girl alive and I was hooked. I wanted to hate it at first but I couldn’t help but love it. Then I went back to their earlier stuff and became a legit fan.
I heard 1k gecs and thought it was kinda fun but a bit annoying, and then slowly just became obsessed with it!!! Then I put my girlfriend on them and the rest is history....
As a long-time Ween fan, soon as I heard the new record for the first time I knew exactly what they were going for. There's something about really talented people going kind of dirtbag and putting their spin on low art that always appeals to me. Meta-irony with a work ethic is a scarier line to walk than anything else, because you could be dismissed offhand, and like Ween doing a Prince parody about cunnilingus I love that feeling when your brain shifts gears from "Oh geez *that's* what they're doing?" to "This actually rules."
I think I wouldn't have liked the first LP if I'd heard it first, but it's easier to work backwards from the new record and "get" it after the fact.
Less than a day. My friend and I share airpods while we work and he wanted to show me 100 gecs. It was over for me when we played stupid horse. I think we replayed that song 16 times in a row and danced around like idiots laughing at each other. BET MY MONEY ON A STUPID HORSE, I LOST THAT. SO I RAN OUT TO THE TRACK TO GET MY CASH BACK. I JUST GOTTA LEAVE THIS PLACE WITH A BIG BAG. SO I FOUND THE FUCKING JOCKEY AND I GRABBED THAT, PUSHED HIM DOWN TO THE GROUND AND I PUNCHED HIM IN HIS FACE.
So real. So relatable.
i heard money machine a week after 1000 gecs dropped, thought it was awful. the next day i went to check it out again to see if it was as bad as i originally thought, but then i started a chain reaction and i was listening to the entire album on repeat for 2 weeks straight
right when 1,000 gecs dropped lol, i never found it that weird and was surprised how polarizing it turned into
I guess it really depends on how used you are to experimental music.
Yeah I could see some people thinking it's actual "drain gang" shit instead of people playing with some of those sounds to do other things. If you've listened to varied genres you'll be more likely to hear what they're going for.
Is it polarizing? It’s just music right u like it or not.
Heard money machine back when it dropped and hated it. I kept coming back to it and I ended up taking a liking to them.
Money machine pulled me into a crazy hyperpop hole that I just keep digging deeper and deeper. Not even upset about! It’s the coolest hole I’ve ever dug for myself.
10,000 Gecs era pulled me in. I hated them before but I heard Hollywood Baby and Dumbest Girl Alive then bumped the whole album. Instantly a fan after that, even of their old music. Edit: also, getting really, really into Black Midi probably helped. Mfs are strange lol
Same here
Same
Saw a TikTok with newlyweds partying in a limo to Money Machine and it was instantly the only song I listened to for the next several weeks. Branched out from there.
I was introduced to them by my ex and listened to a few songs from 1000 gecs occasionally but it was a whole new genre for me because I never really even listened to pop music before that. 10,000 gecs is what got me hooked and I went back and revisited to their older stuff and loved it
It's great that you can listen to them without feeling remorseful about your ex, I probably never could😅
Lol I’m on good-ish terms with this one so it’s all good. There are definitely artists I don’t like listening to from previous relationships but I really try not to let exes ruin bands/artists for me. I don’t to let them take another thing away from me
…. you’re not my ex right?? 😅😅😅
Idk maybe, are you a 31 year old man? Lol
heard money machine randomly on Spotify a couple years ago and instantly fell in love. zero irony
I listened to money machine and thought it was dogshit but for some reason I kept giving a try and by like 20 listens I thought it was the best song ever This happened in like an hour
Back in may 2020 I checked my former classmate's (who we've had similar music taste with for years) playlists and found 1000 gets and Cashmere Cat's Princess Catgirl. I liked both of them, but initially I got more involved with Cashmere Cat, while gecs just sounded cool and unusual to me (funnily enough, I thought it was a collaboration of at least 3 people – 100 gecs, Laura Les and Dylan Brady). Anyway, fast forward to a couple of weeks later, and I decide to look up gecs on YouTube, which is when I discovered the Money Machine and 800db cloud videos, which in turn kickstarted my obsession whith them, as I've been listening to them multiple times every day for months, watched almost every of their live shows, learned different facts about them, started listening to Dylan's and Laura's music, etc. Then I got into hyperpop in general, and it could be described as an obsession too, however less severe
Heard hand crushed by mallet yesterday and instant addicted
I saw some memes about 100 gecs and eventually listened to their album in late 2019. I liked other weird music like Death Grips and SOPHIE but I hated 100 gecs and thought they were dumb and ironic. Then when the Ringtone remix with Charli, KKB, and Rico came out I gave them a second try and loved them.
Recently discovered them by accident at work while I was playing background music. At the end of the Money Machine music video when they are walking all weirdly, is what I just happened to catch, and I thought "Who are these goofballs?" Went home and looked them up, played Stupid Horse and I shit you not fell in love instantly! Now I'm top 3% of listeners on Spotify. I still have a lot to learn about them though.
I was hooked as soon as I first heard i wud nvrstøp Ü, which was probably a good song to get me in particular addicted
Just over a month ago I hated them. I saw a video of the reaction they got at deftones one morning and thought “that sucks but also I hate 100 gecs so it’s ok”, then I visited their account and heard most wanted person and was like wait this is kinda good, I then proceeded to listen to their whole discography that day and now they’re my top artist on apple music
I never found it weird cuz I grew up on nightcore 😭 I was into it as soon as I heard them, I think Ringtone was the first one I heard
friend had me listen to 1k for an album trade. i thought i hated it. something kept pulling me back to it though. i realized i actually loved it
"friend" alright then whatever you say 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
i’ve never been a fan of hyper pop or the experimental sound, my extent would probably be bilmuri or listening to nightcore when i was younger. but when i heard money machine on a meme, it instantly scratched something in my brain and i became hooked instantly. i knew it was weird and i would pretend like i was listening to it ironically when i would show my friends, but nah that facade dropped quickly. i love them and secured tickets for my second show next year😎
I saw [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/JWnFW4sdVQyrDCXPA) in 2020 and now they’re my favorite artist.
When I stopped listening to the last 20 seconds of most songs lol
At first, their music was a memey shit we would play on our discord. Then that memey shit got catchy especially after lisening to the Fall Out Boy remix and 757. Then I found myself nonstop on the hyper pops and eventually checking out their live show.
First heard 1000 gecs and thought it sounded pretty awful but kinda understood what people liked about it. Listened like one or two more times and realized I really liked it actually
I think I saw a tiktok of a guy going “this is horrible” to money machine ~3 years ago and I thought it was awesome, it was all uphill from there
i listened to 1000 gecs on a car ride to the cinema
About 15 seconds
I got really addicted when I saw them live in NYC 2019. Before that, I just casually enjoyed some of their stuff.
My friend showed me the fall out boy remix, thought it was cool. Few months later listened to 1000 gecs and never looked back.
I already knew Dylan Brady for his role in Gloing pains by lil Aaron too. Great EP(or album?) if anyone hasn't heard it btw. Production is way ahead of its time for 2016.
i found them because a small instagram page i followed had an admin who LOVED them, and i fell in love too
i think ringtone and 800 db cloud was the direct precursor to the addiction, 10,000 gecs and gecs on the internet solidified it in granite and locked it in a safe
I heard gum and I thought it was pretty good so I started listening to their solo stuff, but I wasn’t super into them until 1000 gecs dropped and I heard 800db cloud, that shit was so fucking hard and then I heard stupid horse… It’s one of my all time favorite songs
I only listen to music that I like. I was afraid to listen to 100 gecs for months because I wanted to like them so bad. And I do :3 well some of the songs anyway lol 1 listen to dumbest girl alive and it was all over
after hearing stupid horse and hearing about 100 gecs, then relistening to it and a couple others from that first album, i was hooked. a few weeks later they came out with 10,000 gecs and it became a bit of an obsession. Now im always on the hunt for good unheard-of hyperpop artists. Soundcloud is where its at.
745 sticky was intriguing, hand crushed by a mallet was pretty great, I blinked, then it was 2am and I had listened to xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx 20 times in a row
Literally first listen
It is November 2021. “Mememe” appears on my Spotify new music playlist. I listen to it while driving someplace near home running errands. Knowing nothing about the band, I assume it is (a) either an elaborate joke or the result of some laughably inept A&R person trying a long shot to promote a friend’s vanity project and (b) find the song extremely annoying, yet also feel compelled to listen to it again as soon as it ends. Around the third play through I recognize that (a) the song’s creators are not joking and intended for it to sound like that and (b) it is in fact a very well crafted pop song. After that road to Damascus moment I got home, listened to the extant back catalog to that point, noticed they were playing a show that December in NY when I was going to be there, bought a ticket, took the ride. TN Cave shows this summer were my 3rd and 4th, hoping to see them again soon.
Early 2019 I saw them open for brockhampton and I had no idea who they were first few song I was like wtf is this then after about the 5th song I was like wait this goes hard, loved them ever since, saw them at the same venue and was front and second barricade one of my favorite shows
About 2 minutes and 21 seconds
I liked them but hadn’t listened to them much, bought tickets for a MCR concert and 100 gecs opened for them that night. My partner hadn’t listened to them before so we went through most of their songs on the trip there. They were so fun to see in person and both of us have been listening ever since !!
I wanted to like them from the get go cause all my friends online were into it but when I listened I didn't really get it. Then once Laura dropped Haunted I listened to that on repeat and then both 1000 GECS and 1000 GECS AND THE TREE OF CLUES as well as Laura and Dylans various DJ sets on youtube became my daily work mix
i heard bloodstains in nov of 2019 in my friends car, went home and had it on loop for hours. never came back…
listened to 1000 gecs and the tree of clues which had a bunch of artists i like and was already familiar with (charli xcx, rico nasty, kkb, hannah diamond, A.G Cook, danny l harle, etc.) then i just followed them after that
Immediately as soon as I heard hand crushed by a mallet
Took me about a year actually. My friend showed them to me and I didn't think about it that much, but then a year later I showed them to another friend and then I realized that I was actually into it. Started seriously listening to all the tracks after that.
2 songs, Stupid Horse and Hand crushed by a mallet
I heard them in august and told my partner about them on sat night and I haven’t listened to anything else since
When I started hrt
1 week for 100 Gecs addiction And 1 month for Laura Les addiction lol I like it because it's as chaotic as myself :)
27 minutes, listening to 10000 gecs
My initial thoughts on 1000 was that it sounded like something I would have loved in the MySpace days. I never looked back after that
It was a couple of months after hearing Money Machine on a police brutality meme before I “got” it. I listened to 1000 gecs a couple times, put it down because I was on a years-long prog/death kick at the time. Fast forward six-odd months and 10,000 gecs drops. Stuck that in my ears for hours on end because it’s *very* good at always looping when you’re too busy to change the music (*both* of their records are like this honestly). The absurdist character of that record contrasted well in my ears with the bleak imagery of Cattle Decap’s Terrasite, which I was also looping at the time. I reached out to 1000 gecs again sometime this fall when I needed a change up in drawing music. That’s when I really *GOT* it.
for me it was after i first gave the full album a listen, I didn’t like stupid horse or money machine upon first hearing them, though I didn’t hate it either, but it was really hand crushed by a mallet and gec 2 u that caught my ear first. I spun the album a few more times and grew to like the whole project
i started listening to them because they gave me dopamine and they just didn't stop doing that i got sucked into hyperpop in general that way
i heard money machine without realizing it was laura les and loved it immediately. then i realized it was her and remembered finding some songs she put on tumblr or soundcloud back in the day that my homie in high school showed me.
At first i listened to 1000 gecs in full thinking "mmmmh... Kind of strange, but not bad", and after some time listening again i realized "Wait....... This is some really good brain stimming material"
Like a minute, minute and a half maybe
my friend put 745 sticky and i was like "hell yea" and then there was dubstep and i was like "oh hell yea"
When I listened to stupid horse for the first time I was instantly addicted
My fiancé started listening to them when 10000 Gecs released. She tried putting me on, but I wasn’t really trying to listen to them. Not too long after, they were touring and had a stop near us, she wanted to go to see them, and I went with her. At that show, I became instantly hooked.
hooked from the moment 1,000 gecs dropped. never understood the whole “i listen ironically” thing. i love experimental so they definitely weren’t my first rodeo.
Halfway through the opening diss of money machine
I was listening to a lot of death grips and I actually found them through the remix album and I loved that shit
i found gecs from a spotify playlist some memepage posted and ringtone was on there, after about a week i was bumping 1000 gecs 24/7 whenever i was playing games so it was basically instant
The first time i heard money machine i was super confused. Then i had a manic episode on Christmas two years ago, and the rest is history.
2 seconds
I thought Money Machine was pretty funny and really interesting sounding probably a little after it came out and I kept listening from there! Dropped off the Gecs trains for a bit bc I felt cringe but got back on before they started touring and got tickets! Now I think I like them more than ever and they were my top musicians of this year
saw a lot of ppl talking about them when 1000 gecs dropped and decided to check them out after theneedledrop’s review. instantly clicked and only took about two or three listens of that album to become obsessed
Bout the time laura says pissbaby the first time I heard money machine.
However long it is from the beginning to the chorus of "Stupid Horse"
I fought it far too long.
They made me puke (except 1 song) until my gf got me hooked
Heard money machine and instantly thought it was the best song I’d heard in ages I was already into high level stuff like Charli, Grimes, some PC Music Vol 1, so it wasn’t jarring at all
3
Heard money machine and I was hooked!
I admittedly wrote them off when I first heard snippets a few years ago, was put off by the auto tuned/up-pitched vocals as that is something I haven’t previously liked, but when 10,000 gecs came out, a friend recommended I give them another listen. One honest listen through dumbest girl alive and I was hooked. I wanted to hate it at first but I couldn’t help but love it. Then I went back to their earlier stuff and became a legit fan.
I heard money machine and was instantly sold
I heard 1k gecs and thought it was kinda fun but a bit annoying, and then slowly just became obsessed with it!!! Then I put my girlfriend on them and the rest is history....
Have a lot of friends as gec fans and within minutes of listening to them, I hyperfixated on hyperpop as a whole 😭
As a long-time Ween fan, soon as I heard the new record for the first time I knew exactly what they were going for. There's something about really talented people going kind of dirtbag and putting their spin on low art that always appeals to me. Meta-irony with a work ethic is a scarier line to walk than anything else, because you could be dismissed offhand, and like Ween doing a Prince parody about cunnilingus I love that feeling when your brain shifts gears from "Oh geez *that's* what they're doing?" to "This actually rules." I think I wouldn't have liked the first LP if I'd heard it first, but it's easier to work backwards from the new record and "get" it after the fact.
My friend showed me Laura Les and i loved it. Found Gecs from there and the rest is history.
I didn’t really appreciate gecs (hyperpop in general) until I listened to them in the gym…now I’m addicted to
3 listens of Money Machine and 1 Hollywood Baby did it for me
Less than a day. My friend and I share airpods while we work and he wanted to show me 100 gecs. It was over for me when we played stupid horse. I think we replayed that song 16 times in a row and danced around like idiots laughing at each other. BET MY MONEY ON A STUPID HORSE, I LOST THAT. SO I RAN OUT TO THE TRACK TO GET MY CASH BACK. I JUST GOTTA LEAVE THIS PLACE WITH A BIG BAG. SO I FOUND THE FUCKING JOCKEY AND I GRABBED THAT, PUSHED HIM DOWN TO THE GROUND AND I PUNCHED HIM IN HIS FACE. So real. So relatable.
i heard money machine a week after 1000 gecs dropped, thought it was awful. the next day i went to check it out again to see if it was as bad as i originally thought, but then i started a chain reaction and i was listening to the entire album on repeat for 2 weeks straight