Love It Or Hate It, Pop Punk Is Being Resurrected

“Rock” lol you named like two rock artists and all of that sounds awful

I’m dropping the first three tracks from my pop punk project in the next couple weeks. I’ll link it when it’s live

I’ll be going to see Rise Against and Menzingers in August

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Rock” lol you named like two rock artists and all of that sounds awful

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I think you're missing the point, we are seeing mainstream artists from other genres incorporate pop punk styles into their songs or just go full pop punk. It's kind of fascinating to watch a genre like pop punk get relaunched into the main stream via rappers, pop artists, and Tik Tok

I’ll admit I loved pop punk growing up(Blink,Sum 41, Good Charlotte etc) and I didn’t know MGK was doing this stuff now. I listened to his new album and I wouldn’t say it’s bad but I just don’t relate to the high school sucks, angry at life, angry at my girlfriend lyrics anymore. I still jam the original stuff for nostalgic reasons.

Yeah whoops that’s the right date

Love Avril, she rocked. Like Blink as well. I'm hard core 60's rock, but early 2000's had some good music.

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I’ll be going to see Rise Against and Menzingers in August

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I'll be going to see Rise Against, DESCENDENTS, and Menzingers in August.

Menzingers isn’t pop punk and neither is bayside really. Red city radio is another punk band that is special.

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In my opinion, pop punk was the hair metal or bro country of its time.

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This is accurate. I do understand the appeal, but I think it's poser music. Then again that's what pop music is in general: it's poser music that very often taps into a specific niche genre

Yes, the pop punk of the era in which pop punk was mainstream successful, roughly 2001-2005 (Blink and Greenday were popular sooner and fallout boy and Panic kept it going, but that era in the early 2000’s was the peak)

There was also the “dead cat bounce” era of pop punk around 2012 that was heavier and shoutier, but it failed to have the same level of pop culture relevancy. Machine Gun Kelly is hugely influential now despite sounding like if the Chipmunks were singing along to anime video games at 5x speed.

Every era needs “fun” music about love that teens can drink to and maybe dance a little bit that still appeals to boys. In the 60’s, that was the Beatles, the 70’s, it was bands like Foreigner. In the 80’s, hair metal. The 90’s had stuff like third eye blind and better than ezra, the 2000’s had pop punk, the 2010’s bro country. There’s always a demand for silly love songs that boys don’t have to feel ashamed of liking too. The question is what will fill that niche next?

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but I think it's poser music

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Isn’t that kinda the whole point, though? One thing that kinda keeps pop punk from being so easy to ridicule despite the mountains of material is its lack of self-seriousness. Pop punk was sorta a joke the bands themselves were in on. Bowling for Soul and Good Charlotte had hits that were almost entirely tongue in cheek satirical songs not meant to be taken seriously. Early Blink and Sum 41 marketing were all about having fun and childish hijinks. Hair metal gets ripped on for being silly because it was silly and those perpetrating it didn’t realize it (or pretended not to). Pop punk was meant to be silly, because they straight up DGAF. Pop punk succeeded by being the perfect marriage of the DGAF attitude and style of grunge with the major keys and fun aesthetic of hair metal.