How about we try this....Music is freaking music. There are a lot of things out there that i'm not a fan of. at all. this tends to include a lot of pop, and a lot of country. but that's my personal taste. in their own genre, it's music, and it's brilliant. it's just brilliant by a different set of rules. The only thing that I CANNOT stand is someone who shamelessly tries to act one way, or proclaim a mindset or culture or genre, and fits in no way with that genre at all. this includes the entire notion of pop punk. It's not pop PUNK. it might be pop rock, it might be something else entirely. But good Charlotte and Blink need to stop trying to play like they are punk. they aren't. respect yourself and start your own movement instead of trying to piggyback on DK and johny ramones legacy, ya know? it's a matter of pride. if your musics good, it doesn't need genre classification. this means stop putting patch clad, leather and denim wearing three foot mohawked dudes in your video. that's punk. you want your movement? Dickies, tight baby pink shirt and a trucker hat with some hot topic saying on it. Thats their movement (as of yet unnamed.) if it's not political (this is why i didn't mention green day. Punk is a movement of politics AND music. Greenday is all about the subculture, politics, and social commentary. definitively punks roots, even if the music may be a bit more melodic.)

Anyway,m what i'm saying is, like what you like, hate what you hate, but shut your freaking hole. unless somebodies got a boombox taped to your ear, what's your problem? change the radio station, don't buy the CD, the end. (btw, the pop punk rant was not on pop punk alone, that's just the example. new country calling itself country when all it is is alterna-60's style southern rock, is ridiculous. Willy Nelson was country. JOHNNY CASH was country. this is rock, sorry. southern flavored, but rock. anyway, it's about respecting your music enough to let it be what it is without lumping it in.




as a LAST note.... Yes. Avril Lavigne said she was punk. Yes, this is a Horrid, Horrid thing to try to say. and yes, she did dress punk. look at her. she was covered in patchs, anarchy symbols, and the whole "screwed up misplaced suit pieces" thing that suddenly became trendy. she was trying, and even referenced her music as punk-themed, even though she had no idea who some of the fore-fathers of the punk movement are. Shame on Avril. She does have some decent teeny-bopper style pop though. way to angst, shame on you for demoting the punk culture.


have a nice day!