I think there’s also something to the idea that Millennials, perhaps more so than earlier generations, are aware of what gen z is doing and interact with them because of the internet. There’s always been generational mixing within certain scenes and sub cultures but the way people consume algorithmic content these days means the average 40 year old can and does get into flame wars with the average 25 year old more often. That, plus the fact that nostalgia is cool now and everything is backwards looking, might be part of the reason it’s harder to tell what’s being made for who. Instead of pretending it’s 2005 and they’re 20 again, Millennials can, in a way that is at least confusing if not convincing, cosplay what they imagine being 20 is like now, and some of that is being into a band that has some gen z cred that still reminds them of music their own past.
That being said Geese did kind of sweep my gen z friend group. So I think there’s some genuine gen z fans. Plus there’s plenty of aging millennials who seem pretty crotchety about them, which is always a reliable sign it’s for younger people. Myself, I don’t really have any substantial critical opinions about music but I think they’re fine.
The media was saying the same shit about the Strokes some years back....you would have thought they were the second coming of the fucking Stooges!
Geese fucking sucks and we all know it. They sound like some shit you'd hear at a bar in Sacramento and then walk out going, "meh." If these nerds are "geniuses" then Roky Erickson is a GOD.
I've watched a lot of unfamiliar bands on the SNL music segments across the decades. The performance I saw by Geese was perhaps the most sad-ass guitar band I've ever seen.
I'm usually quite forgiving and polite with my reviews, never having been paid for rock criticism and preferring to emphasize the positive. Even though I'm not a professional musician either, I still strive to heed the advice of the Musicians 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of other musicians." But enough is enough. Geese is a disgrace to the Tradition.
Geese, getting destroyed by a semi-obscure Boomer band from 50 years ago:
I think there’s also something to the idea that Millennials, perhaps more so than earlier generations, are aware of what gen z is doing and interact with them because of the internet. There’s always been generational mixing within certain scenes and sub cultures but the way people consume algorithmic content these days means the average 40 year old can and does get into flame wars with the average 25 year old more often. That, plus the fact that nostalgia is cool now and everything is backwards looking, might be part of the reason it’s harder to tell what’s being made for who. Instead of pretending it’s 2005 and they’re 20 again, Millennials can, in a way that is at least confusing if not convincing, cosplay what they imagine being 20 is like now, and some of that is being into a band that has some gen z cred that still reminds them of music their own past.
That being said Geese did kind of sweep my gen z friend group. So I think there’s some genuine gen z fans. Plus there’s plenty of aging millennials who seem pretty crotchety about them, which is always a reliable sign it’s for younger people. Myself, I don’t really have any substantial critical opinions about music but I think they’re fine.
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Geese is 90s nostalgia for people who didn't experience the 90s.
It would make me tired if I read any more of it than enough to realize it would make me tired.
This was gas tbh. I’m a zoomer and i still haven’t heard one geese song. The only zoomers I know who like them are ironic red scare listeners
The media was saying the same shit about the Strokes some years back....you would have thought they were the second coming of the fucking Stooges!
Geese fucking sucks and we all know it. They sound like some shit you'd hear at a bar in Sacramento and then walk out going, "meh." If these nerds are "geniuses" then Roky Erickson is a GOD.
I've watched a lot of unfamiliar bands on the SNL music segments across the decades. The performance I saw by Geese was perhaps the most sad-ass guitar band I've ever seen.
I'm usually quite forgiving and polite with my reviews, never having been paid for rock criticism and preferring to emphasize the positive. Even though I'm not a professional musician either, I still strive to heed the advice of the Musicians 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of other musicians." But enough is enough. Geese is a disgrace to the Tradition.
Geese, getting destroyed by a semi-obscure Boomer band from 50 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDXMOxpAsqA