10,000 gecs

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10,000 gecs
10000 gecs album cover.jpg
Studio album by
100 gecs
ReleasedMarch 17, 2023 (2023-03-17)
Recorded2021
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Length26:53
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Producer
100 gecs chronology
Snake Eyes
(2022)		10,000 gecs
(2023)
Singles from 10,000 gecs
  1. "MeMeMe"
    Released: November 19, 2021
  2. "Doritos & Fritos"
    Released: April 12, 2022
  3. "Hollywood Baby"
    Released: February 16, 2023
  4. "Dumbest Girl Alive"
    Released: March 17, 2023
  5. "The Most Wanted Person in the United States"
    Released: May 11, 2023
  6. "Billy Knows Jamie"
    Released: October 31, 2023

10,000 gecs is the second studio album by American hyperpop duo 100 gecs, as well as their first release on a major label - Atlantic Records. It was released on March 17, 2023, through Dog Show and Atlantic after several delays and a 2021 promotional tour. [4] The album is a follow-up to their debut album 1000 gecs (2019) and the remix album 1000 gecs and the Tree of Clues (2020). It was supported by the pre-release of three singles: "MeMeMe", "Doritos & Fritos", and "Hollywood Baby".

Contents

Background

On July 13, 2021, 100 gecs announced the 10,000 gecs Tour. The 34-date tour ran from October 8 to December 9, 2021. [5] On this tour, the duo performed the then-unreleased songs "MeMeMe", "Hollywood Baby", "757", "Billy Knows Jamie", "One Million Dollars", "Hey Big Man", "Fallen 4 Ü", and "What's That Smell?". [6]

On September 6, 2021, they officially announced the album and revealed its cover art. [7] [8] Then, on October 7, they announced that it would release in early 2022. [9] On November 19, they officially released "MeMeMe" as the album's first single, with an accompanying music video on the same day. [10] The album would ultimately miss the initial "early 2022" release window; however its second single, "Doritos & Fritos", was released on April 12, 2022. [11] An accompanying music video for the song was released the following month on May 16. The duo also played another new song, "I Got My Tooth Removed", at some of their concerts during that year. [6]

On December 2, 2022, the duo released an EP titled Snake Eyes , which included the previously performed "Hey Big Man" as well as two other songs. The same day, the duo officially announced that after much delay, 10,000 gecs would release on March 17, 2023, and launched pre-orders for the album. [12] On February 16, 2023, they released the album's third single "Hollywood Baby", along with the album's track listing. [13]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 81/100 [14]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [15]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [16]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [17]
Pitchfork 8.2/10 [18]
PopMatters 7/10 [19]
Slant Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [20]
The Sydney Morning Herald Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [21]

10,000 gecs received acclaim from critics upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 15 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [14]

Writing for PopMatters , John Amen noted, "The duo reaffirm their status as hyperpop ambassadors while implementing a notable mainstream savvy, including memorable beats, hook-ish melodies, and vocals that epitomize an au courant slacker vibe." [19] Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Fred Thomas suggested that it, "expands the duo's cultural collaging to include cannibalizations of Limp Bizkit-style nu-metal, pop-punk, '90s alt-funk, ska, and anything else that captures the gecs' fleeting attention." Upon concluding the article, Thomas also claimed that, "Somehow 100 gecs take things even more over the top on 10,000 Gecs than they did on their already mind-boggling debut. The very nature of the group's hyperbolic and perpetually exploding design means they're still inherently polarizing, love-it-or-hate-it kind of music. For those who love it, 10,000 Gecs offers more – so much more, always more – to love." [15]

Reviewing 10,000 Gecs for The Sydney Morning Herald , Robert Moran wrote that the duo had not been tamed by signing to a major label or feeling the pressure to follow up the "free-form fluke" of their debut. [21] Deeming it to be perhaps "the weirdest major label release" since Ween's Pure Guava (1992), Moran wrote that "10,000 Gecs is hilariously extreme, a nutty and unbridled celebration of pop culture detritus befitting the synaptic overload of our perennially online era. More than that, it’s proof once again that there’s no one like 100 Gecs." [21]

In June 2023, Alternative Press published an unranked list of the top 25 albums of the year to date and included this release, calling it "10 times more ludicrous than its precursor" with "the raging moshpit of nü metal, cyberpop, emo-rap, ska, and punk that somehow wrestled mainstream critics onto their side of the joke". [22]

Usage in Fox News

In March 2023, a few days after the album released, some people noticed that the cable news station Fox News was playing the track "The Most Wanted Person in the United States" during an outro segment. In May 2023, Fox News anchor Greg Gutfeld stated that 100 gecs were "the best new band out there", as well as mentioning various other music groups such as Death Grips. [23] Many fans noticed the irony between Fox News' frequent anti-LGBT messaging, and Les being a transgender woman herself. Though that doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of people enjoying music. Most normal human beings can separate the art from the artist and not judge their work based on the person or people who produced it regardless of if they agree with their lifestyle or political opinions.

Year-end lists

Select year-end rankings of 10,000 gecs
Critic/PublicationListRankRef.
Exclaim! Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2023
12
Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2023
18
NME The best albums of 2023
14
Rolling Stone The 100 Best Albums of 2023
74
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2023
10

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dylan Brady and Laura Les

10,000 Gecs track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Dumbest Girl Alive"2:17
2."757"2:06
3."Hollywood Baby"3:07
4."Frog on the Floor"2:41
5."Doritos & Fritos"3:16
6."Billy Knows Jamie"2:43
7."One Million Dollars"2:00
8."The Most Wanted Person in the United States"2:35
9."I Got My Tooth Removed"3:17
10."MeMeMe"2:46
Total length:26:53

Notes

Personnel

100 gecs

Additional musicians

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Chart performance for 10,000 Gecs
Chart (2023)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [30] 89
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [31] 17
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [32] 49
US Billboard 200 [33] 59
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [34] 7
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [35] 4
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard) [36] 7
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [37] 8
US Top Rock & Alternative Albums ( Billboard ) [38] 10
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [39] 6
US Vinyl Albums (Billboard) [40] 5

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