WRU

6mo

not sure if this was posted but fun read

https://maximumexposureinc.substack.com/p/you-dont-actually-like-the-band-geese

gbluecheez

6mo

can't wait to get killed by AXS next week when I can't buy a ticket

gbluecheez

6mo

I actually managed to get a single ticket whew

sfsorrow

6mo

wtf how were you in a smaller city? congrats though I saw 35k queues for s*** like philly, I feel like you need to be like 500 to even get a chance 😭

Tiigre

6mo

😤based

earthwalka

6mo

I’m still listening to Getting Killed too. Psy-op be damned, I remember where I was the first time I heard 3D Country.

sfsorrow

1y

crazy how cobra/husbands is the greatest 1-2 of all time

fun guy

1mo

@sfsorrow have you read the new Rolling Stone interview? Hope our boy is doing okay

For all of his independence, though, he’s troubled by the idea that other people find his band’s music challenging. Take the reaction to their Saturday Night Live performance, all the confused and hostile comments from viewers unfamiliar with Geese’s game.

“It really f***ed me up just how hard people took it,” he tells me. “Of course, there were plenty of music-nerd people who loved it, but I felt like the reason they loved it was almost because it was sticking it to these average people who just turn on SNL after work. It depressed the s*** out of me, because that’s not what I was trying to do. It’s not like I wanted to play a f***ing song in a weird time signature that’s really loud and repetitive, and then just be like, ‘Ha, ha, you don’t get it like we do.’” He thumbs his nose, waggling his fingers impishly. “That’s stupid. But a lot of what we do gets seen as that. I don’t know how to fix that.”

He’s been struggling with how to balance these concerns in the new music he’s working on — the desire to make something that expresses his unique point of view, while also being accessible to listeners. “It’s hard,” he says. “I used to write songs with interesting, difficult almost, chords in them, and now it’s like I-IV-V until the cows come home.” Even a mildly unorthodox musical choice feels pretentious to him now: “It’s actually getting worse and worse. It’s like the f***ing rut is getting deeper and deeper, because then I do a ii chord, and I’m just like, ‘Ew. What are you, f***ing Keith Jarrett, you piece of s***?’”

It’s a funny line, but I can’t help noticing the thread of harsh self-critique that runs through much of what he says. Starting to feel a little like an unlicensed therapist, I ask Winter where that comes from. “I don’t know, my Semitic side?” he jokes.

Gesturing at the madness that has surrounded Geese for the past year, he says, “There are parts of it that are hard for me, in particular. Like, even Max, for example, he’s better at dealing with all of this than me. It hurts my feelings a lot. It’s just a drag. It’s like I said before: It feels like everyone else has lost their f***ing minds, and everything that is good that’s happened to me and bad that’s happened to me is the work of other people from start to finish, and it’s just a big f***ing maelstrom, and honestly, I’d rather not be part of it.”

When he was younger, he sometimes wondered what it would be like to be in this position. He doesn’t have to wonder anymore. “Like, why do bands break up when they’re so popular? Oh, don’t I know now,” he says. “It’s actually a miracle bands don’t break up sooner.” He laughs morosely, and lowers his voice. “I just want to feel like a person, an actual person. It doesn’t make you feel good to feel like more than a person.”

sfsorrow

1mo

bro YES I was literally gonna make a post in here about this itt, he sounds so overwhelmed with it all now and I hate he's second guessing himself so much I can't even blame him, imagine you blow up off your niche style and every person on earth is telling you you didn't earn it and bought it when you had no conscious hand in it. the snl response affecting him really sucks too because you can tell he hates he's being pigeonholed like this on both sides

fun guy

1mo

Really hoping he can shake it off, lack of confidence + hyper awareness of how your art is perceived is a killer.

The level of discourse is horrendous man. We have a generational songwriter with an incredible voice (not to mention the rest of the band) yet far too much of online discussion is oriented around "muh psyop" or how their music is too pretentious, plus all the weird s*** going on with his romantic life. Just have to focus on what's actually tangible, like the thousands of emphatic fans packing out concerts and fighting with each other to see you, while tuning out all the other noise.

fun guy

1mo

@sfsorrow have you read the new Rolling Stone interview? Hope our boy is doing okay

For all of his independence, though, he’s troubled by the idea that other people find his band’s music challenging. Take the reaction to their Saturday Night Live performance, all the confused and hostile comments from viewers unfamiliar with Geese’s game.

“It really f***ed me up just how hard people took it,” he tells me. “Of course, there were plenty of music-nerd people who loved it, but I felt like the reason they loved it was almost because it was sticking it to these average people who just turn on SNL after work. It depressed the s*** out of me, because that’s not what I was trying to do. It’s not like I wanted to play a f***ing song in a weird time signature that’s really loud and repetitive, and then just be like, ‘Ha, ha, you don’t get it like we do.’” He thumbs his nose, waggling his fingers impishly. “That’s stupid. But a lot of what we do gets seen as that. I don’t know how to fix that.”

He’s been struggling with how to balance these concerns in the new music he’s working on — the desire to make something that expresses his unique point of view, while also being accessible to listeners. “It’s hard,” he says. “I used to write songs with interesting, difficult almost, chords in them, and now it’s like I-IV-V until the cows come home.” Even a mildly unorthodox musical choice feels pretentious to him now: “It’s actually getting worse and worse. It’s like the f***ing rut is getting deeper and deeper, because then I do a ii chord, and I’m just like, ‘Ew. What are you, f***ing Keith Jarrett, you piece of s***?’”

It’s a funny line, but I can’t help noticing the thread of harsh self-critique that runs through much of what he says. Starting to feel a little like an unlicensed therapist, I ask Winter where that comes from. “I don’t know, my Semitic side?” he jokes.

Gesturing at the madness that has surrounded Geese for the past year, he says, “There are parts of it that are hard for me, in particular. Like, even Max, for example, he’s better at dealing with all of this than me. It hurts my feelings a lot. It’s just a drag. It’s like I said before: It feels like everyone else has lost their f***ing minds, and everything that is good that’s happened to me and bad that’s happened to me is the work of other people from start to finish, and it’s just a big f***ing maelstrom, and honestly, I’d rather not be part of it.”

When he was younger, he sometimes wondered what it would be like to be in this position. He doesn’t have to wonder anymore. “Like, why do bands break up when they’re so popular? Oh, don’t I know now,” he says. “It’s actually a miracle bands don’t break up sooner.” He laughs morosely, and lowers his voice. “I just want to feel like a person, an actual person. It doesn’t make you feel good to feel like more than a person.”