Is 100 gecs the End of Pop, or a New Beginning?

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The duo 100 gecs is one of the year's most unlikely breakthrough artists. What does its music mean for pop?

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0:00.0	I make my money on my own own own yeah
0:05.0	wake in the morning yeah
0:10.0	throw money in the oven yeah
0:11.0	fuck sleep and his cousin yeah
0:13.0	I'm in all yeah.
0:14.8	Welcome to the New York Times podcast.
0:16.5	You are if you're interested in optioning my life rights
0:19.3	you can set up a meeting while I'm in town of music, news, and criticism.
0:23.7	I'm your host, plan do what I want don't hold my hand I can do anything I
0:39.2	want first try you take like time tries and tries with my eyes.
0:44.0	Oh my god.
0:45.0	Bouchard, go check and I spend on.
0:48.0	Oh, you probably feel like a trend tells.
0:51.0	I can do anything I put my mind on. Are you feeling the gex?
0:55.0	Real heads know that what we were listening to is 745 sticky and that is the opening track on a thousand
1:05.1	gex which is the first full-length album by a hundred gex this is a record I
1:09.4	wrote about a few weeks ago and has been one of the most powerful records of the year for me personally.
1:16.1	And so the people asked and we delivered today a Gexcast.
1:21.5	So in a little bit, Larry Fitzmerice is going to be here and then Eli
1:25.0	Ennis is going to call in and we're going to talk all things Gex. But part of
1:29.6	the inspiration is because I was fortunate enough last night to see a hundred gex perform at
1:36.7	NYU the student program board put on a show and it was rowdy man like these kids was wilding. This is in like a
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