You 2 just summed up the entire genre of pop. Well It'd be funny trying to see kids singing along to Slayer or Cradle of Filth. Greenday isn't even pop punk they're EMO Pop/punk. That genre itself has become popular among kids and for some reason it's because they're crap they've become pop, media whorers, everywhere I look in magazines there's praise to "rock" bands like Greenday, Blink 182, My Chemical Romance and Lost Prophets. Even in metal magazines they get compared to Judas Priest and Metallica.