History of Pop Punk: Part 2

10/14/20 • 29 min

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Here’s a list of words that shouldn’t go together but do...alone together...how many times did you uses that during the coronavirus pandemic?...deafening silence...I know what that means, but when you think about it, the juxtaposition is strange...

Definitely maybe...good name for a Britpop album, but an odd combination of words...random order...walking dead...original copy...

Here’s another one: pop-punk...you know what I mean by that...but those words should not go together...punk was originally created as an attack pop...

Over the decades, pop and punk merged to create a hybrid that’s responsible for selling hundreds of millions of records and concert tickets...

How did this happen?...that’s what we’re looking at...this is part two of a history of pop-punk...

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Definitely maybe...good name for a Britpop album, but an odd combination of words...random order...walking dead...original copy...

Here’s another one: pop-punk...you know what I mean by that...but those words should not go together...punk was originally created as an attack pop...

Over the decades, pop and punk merged to create a hybrid that’s responsible for selling hundreds of millions of records and concert tickets...

How did this happen?...that’s what we’re looking at...this is part two of a history of pop-punk...

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History of Pop Punk: Part 1

Before we get to the topic at hand, I’d like to revisit the movie “Forrest Gump,” specifically Forrest’s shrimp boat buddy, Benjamin Buford Blue—but you can just call him Bubba...he knew all the ways one could serve up shrimp...

What Bubba could do for shrimp, other people can do for punk...punk rock comes in as many different varieties of shrimp...there’s hardcore punk, ska-punk, cyberpunk, synthpunk, anarcho-punk, cowpunk, gypsy punk, Christian punk, Celtic punk, art punk, garage punk, glam punk, crust punk, horror punk, street punk, melodic punk, afro-punk, skate punk, Chicano punk, folk funk, trall punk...

There’s punk blues, punk pathetique, punk metal, riot grrrl, queercore, rapcore, straight edge, emo, and oi...

And then we can get into all sorts of subgenres...hardcore punk includes bent edge, deathcore, pornogrind, screamo, powerviolence, positive hardcore, nard core, nintendocore...and that’s about all I know about that...

Most of these punk derivatives are pretty niche and none of them have a hope in hell of growing beyond a cult following...but a few have blown up into worldwide phenomenon’s—including a version that I haven’t mentioned, which remains one of the most popular forms of punk rock of all time...

This is the history of pop-punk, part 1...

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