To the kids I see around campus, on the buses, everyday:
- Stop trying to look like a rebel by disagreeing with everyone just to be different
- Stop trying to look like a rebel by littering – it’s just gross.
- Stop trying to look like a rebel, or worse, a hipster, by not taking off your pretentious pork-pie hat inside.
- Stop trying to look like a rebel by constantly bringing up people who are less mainstream than the next. Especially if you can’t back up your facts.
- Stop trying to look like a rebel by wearing ‘punk’/’distressed’ shirts if they really cost $80 each.
- Stop trying to look like a rebel by putting “fuck” in every sentence, we can tell when it’s forced.
- Stop trying to look like a rebel by acting ~random~ – that died along with nexopia.
- Stop trying to look like a rebel by liking Green Day, Simple Plan, and other pop-punk.
- Stop trying to look like a rebel by reading Nietzsche ~because it seems badass~
Pop-punk is rebellious. It takes a big man to admit that he loves the Offspring, or that he finds a Green Day album appealing, even if it's not "Dookie". Would you say that Shonen-Knife is punk or pop or pop punk?
ReplyDelete(I came across this randomly and felt like arguing.)
Thanks for the comment! I'm not trying to disrespect pop-punk per se, but rather the people who think that because they've appropriated pop-punk into their repertoire it makes them ultra-unique/special/punker than all else! A lot of it is about the mindset.
ReplyDeleteI guess I would place Shonen Knife as indie-punk? I'm not sure. At the same time as they are not in the pop mainstream of the west or Japan, they are also not necessarily in the mainstream punk of either.