60.00% - Blink-182 became the defining band of pop punk — catchy, juvenile, enormously successful, and a genuine cultural artifact of late-90s suburban teenage experience.
40.00% - Feeling seventeen and restless and bored in the suburbs doesn't require material poverty to be genuine — pop punk is an authentic expression of that experience.
Making punk palatable strips it of the confrontation and rage that define the genre.
100.00% - Making punk palatable strips it of the confrontation and rage that define the genre.
0.00% - To make punk: pop is to strip punk of that which makes it a rich and consequential genre of music.
50.00% - Jennifer's Body