The Offspring thrived with irony. That album began with a song titled Disclaimer where they read in an ironic voice "Warning, this album contains explicit depictions of things that are Real. These real thins are commonly known as Life..." That was the end of the era where listening to whole albums was the norm. Now it is only done for really iconic releases.
@@Sam_on_RUclips That statement is being read by Jello Biafra no less, who as leader of the Dead Kennedys and several other projects afterward made his living off of being transgressive.
It started with Green Day and then I fell down the biggest rabbit hole of my life, I had my first few music tastes but now I’m completely trapped in pop-punk and I don’t want to leave. I’m 17 and the songs speak to me in a confusingly relatable way and the songs have comforted me in my hard times. Being a drummer and musician has given me a different perspective too, just being able to see how talented people are in this genre is astonishing. I will continue to force people to listen to pop-punk until the day I die.
I'm 17 as well, have been trying to play guitar for a long while. Punk rock helps me get through highschool, and it'll most likely help me get through this last year. Punk will never die.
The fact that Olivia Rodrigo and Willow Smith's latest singles sound like Paramore was not lost on me. We'll see probably more of pop punk's influence resurface in new artists I'm sure.
I think you're right. I can see a pop punk revival coming in the younger generations now. My kids are listening to the same stuff I did and starting bands ❤️
As a 29 year old who teaches kids in the 11-17 bracket, it really warms my heart when they talk about their love for the music that shaped my youth. It does not warm my heart, however, when they refer to New Found Glory as 'a retro band you probably won't have heard of Miss'...
NFG is freakin' fantastic. Pop punk may be radio friendly bubble gum music sometimes but I don't even care. It has boundless energy and just sounds good to me..I am a bit older, and when I was 14 Green Day had just come out with their Dookie album. I've had a thing for pop punk bands ever since. 🙂
I had a 16 year old coworker come up to me to tell me about this “old underground band thats starting to blow up….” It was pierce the veil!! I couldn’t believe that they are already getting the old reputation.
I love this genre because it’s not light, often really sad, but it’s also relentlessly and defiantly positive. It’s what I need for healing in my darkest moments. Something not pretending to be something I’m not, something that’s acknowledging the pain and sadness while actively defying that.
Relentlessly and defiantly positive. Pretty sure that’s the part that gets me. My depression likes hard rock, sad & low music. Every other day? Pop punk. Trying to pull myself out of a funk? Pop punk. Covers of other songs? Pop punk!
Funny. I was just telling my brother how we’re only a few years away from Warped Tour retrospectives and the potential canonization of that era and sound. A remastered box set of all of the Warped Tour compilations would essentially be a millennial version of Nuggets.
Agreed, I have to admit enema and jacket are my favourite eras but undoubtedly self titled is their work of art. Unfortunately I saw their tour of the self titled a few weeks before Tom left and they were just playing the song too damn fast. I guess they just wanted to get through the set so they could get away from each other back then 😢
"Stockholm Syndrome Interlude" and "Stockholm Syndrome" are both just amazing. The former is a recitation of a letter written by Mark Hoppus' grandfather during WWII, to his (Mark's) grandmother. I haven't verified this, but I also read that the audio is of his grandmother reading the letter too. When Blink-182's self-titled album came out, "Stockholm Syndrome" instantly became my favorite song from that album. Mark Hoppus has gone on record to say it's his favorite song they've ever done. I can understand why.
@@sxth2915 Well yes, but it took a decate to took Pop-Punk on NR1. Remember MGK is a Rapper and the Album include lots of Rap influences. I mean the biggest hit was a Rap/Pop-Punk song.
ive heard so many explanations about this song I can't keep track anymore. I heard a local kid in my area ended himself sadly while listening to it and ppl say that Blink now gives free tickets to his sister whenever they come to our area. I've been unable to find any evidence of this being true tho
@@CameronMcKee I heard somewhere that it was a fan of theirs who ended his life but wrote a last letter to them. Later they got the letter and wrote a song for Adam as a tribute? Not sure whats true tho
@@Aree. 3rd this comment also I heard about it the same way about Adam's song. And for some reason I think of pop punk is only between when hardcore and America happened and like 2010 but that's just when I was raised.. I'm a geezer
The album Warning by Green Day doesn’t get enough credit. The way they combined folk with pop punk on songs about society, hope & self-discovery will always stick with me.
The Kids Aren't Alright was almost prophetic for my own friend group when I was a kid. It really hit hard back then, and listening to it now brings me right back. It's intense.
The chorus especially hits hard, that dissonance of missed opportunity and deferred dreams. What you hoped adulthood to be an vs what it became in reality.
Hayley Williams from Paramore made me a pop punk fan. Her voice then the guys on the guitars and drums were heavenly to my 14 yr old ears. Such nostalgia watching this video. 🙏🏾
I recently played "No Reason"by Sum 41 for a friend of mine who is a hardcore "classic rock" guy. He was blown away by how hard it hits. "This just....rocks." You're goddamn right it does. As a Canadian born in '92 everything about this video is amazing.
@@joho0 Woah Canada has a pretty influential metal scen with bands like anvil and annihilator. With anvil even inspiring the big four of thrash. Don't get me wrong I get what you're getting at but to say that is a huge disrespect for the underappreciated metal scene in Canada.
To be fair, Sum 41 has always leaned on to the heavier side, they just play pop punk for the mainstream success which they deservedly got (which isn't a bad thing at all). "Maiden and Priest were the gods that we praised", they did say, after all.
I'm a 54yr old, jaded, cynical, nihilistic professional musician and I have a sweet spot for Pop Punk, in fact my guilty pleasure is Green Day, but don't tell anyone my secret.
I get days where I say, while I'm scrolling through albums, "I don't feel like Dark side of the moon or Nevermind or Ok Computer", but when I don't know what to listen or what would hit the spot I always end up on pop-punk. It is the kind of music that I can literally listen to anytime, anywhere and it always boosts my energy. Those albums may not be the artistic masterpieces, but their entertainment value is off the charts. That's why when we discuss our favorite albums I always have the separate lists for these albums that don't fit amongst the likes of "In the court of the crimson king", "Loveless", "The velvet underground & Nico" etc. and most of them are pop-punk albums.
I can't imagine listening to some of those albums you listed too often. Take DSoTM for example. I think it's perfect, but I'd be lying if I said I listen to it all the time. If I want to listen to that stuff. I want to sit there, and really listen and immerse myself in it. But like you said with pop punk, it's something you can listen anytime anywhere. (I personally am not a a huge pop punk guy) but I have that kind of music too.
American Idiot will always be my favorite album. When I first heard that album at 14, it changed my life and outlook on life. Before that, I had never had an album speak to me so much. It felt like it was written for me. Many of the feelings and struggles of the songs in American Idiot can honestly be applied to so much. If I’m feeling down, I sit down for a few hours and listen to the whole album. Homecoming as the final track sometimes gets me in tears. Got me through a lot.
Same. I was also born in 1993, so I was 11 when the album came out. It was actually the first record I ever listened to start to finish. I didn't really understand the purpose of an "album" back then. I just wanted to hear the singles I heard on the radio lol. So popping it in my discman and listening straight through, hearing all of the different transitions from song to song, the overarching themes and characters... It blew my mind. Green Day became the first band I ever loved after that, and I spiraled into the pop-punk rabbit hole throughout my middle school days. It became a part of me! Forever in love with the genre! Definitely not a phase.
I can totally relate! And I'm not even american, but I guess the themes of the album spoke directly to a whole generation. It perfectly synthesizes the typical millennial struggles, when we were just starting to realize just how bleak our future seemed. And well ...I think we were right on that 😂 So that's probably why the album still touches so many of us when we listen to it almost 20 years later now.
Same here. I listened to American Idiot for the first time when I was 12, so it was in 2010, but the album resonated with me. Even today, it's still my favourite album, and I think the outlook they gave is just becoming more relevant over the years.
It was the first full album I listened to. I’ve memorized all 14 songs so much and listening to it again once in a while doesn’t feel as good as it used to.
For me, The Middle by Jimmy Eats World, it came out when I was 20 years old and I fell in love with that song, skip over a few years later and I have a 15 year old daughter, whenever she is feeling down, lonely, hurt, or cast out we listen to this song together. Music heals soul
I'd also recommend Yellowcard albums. Ocean Avenue, Paper Walls, but especially Lights and Sounds which is a concept album of sorts based on their hatred for Los Angeles through top notch pop punk anthems.
I still listening to pop punk, it's still one of my favourite genres. And especially with PUP just killing it these last few years, I will never stop...
I am 16 years old, and I love pop punk. I beginning to listen it with 12 years old, Green Day was my first favorite band (green day still is my favorite). And I know that a lot of people of my generation beginning listening the classic pop punk and they love it too
Pop Punk quite honestly saved my life on several occasions. I would not still be here without having songs that carried me through my worst days by not letting me feel entirely alone like my depression wanted me to think. It continues to help me now at 28 and I believe it still will at 82
the hell song is one of my favourite riffs off all time just because of how catchy it is although that riff was written by deryck dave brownsound was incredible at writing riffs his metal influences helped massively
My Bands I heard the most when I was in my teenage-years, were System of a Down, Slipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Fall out Boy, Metallica, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin Sometimes I go back and hear these bands and it makes me somehow sad. It makes me sad because this time was so intensiv, that it takes so much more today to get to like a band as much as I like these bands
I could not agree more, I didn’t come to appreciate that until recently. I feel like they’re a great example of a pop punk/emo band taking on more mature adult themes
@@202guitars I’m kind of bristling at the inclusion of Jimmy Eat World as a pop punk band. I know a lot of people consider them enough and I guess I don’t really agree with that either…they never did the theatrics or the silliness or the drama and general over-the-top/ness that the rest of these bands did. They just made music that made you feel stuff, with deep, layered metaphor, complex rhythms and modes. They’re masterful. And I’m not saying these pop punk bands aren’t or weren’t, but I don’t think they’re the same. They’re also still making records and touring and I’m not sure how many of these other are.
I know you will hate me for this but I feel The Clash were one of the first bands to play a 'pop / punk' style, The Ramones also. By the time Green Day & Blink182 appeared it felt like a modern version of The Clash. But you could also add Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Police, The Jam, Billy Idol, Joe Jackson, The Pretenders, UB40, Madness, the Specials as all having Pop / Punk way before it was adopted by much larger MTV bands. Personally Avril Lavigne Skater Boi is the pinnacle of the style, nothing even comes close.
I get where you’re coming from, but I think a lot of that is reaching. I agree with it in theory. But pop punk as a scene and an aesthetic really is centralized long after most of those bands times. Punk with pop elements can certainly be defined as pop punk, but pop punk as it is known today was really formed by blink, Green Day and definitely Avril.
The Clash is most properly called "First Wave Punk" and groups like The Ramones were the beginning of "Post Punk." Green day and Sum 41 are considered Second Wave Punk and set the stage for groups like Blink to become pop-punk, which many of the second wave punk bands were also quite successful at.
A lot of people forget that one of the bigger parts of being punk or making punk music isn't just the style, it's your ideology and politics. Punk rockers are usually more politically left because "punk" people were usually impoverished people who were thrifting what they could. Music was made highlighting the issues with poverty and oppression, and bam, the punk rock community started growing. A lot of older musicians like The Ramones and Avril Lavigne were loved by older people, but still not considered punk rock even though they were
im 18 and im in love with pop punk music. i discovered it when i was like 12. i quickly became a big fan of Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, blink-182 and Green Day. idk but early 00s music is just so pure, sincere and innocent
Damn. All this nostalgia got me crying in my car Edit: my favorite memories in my mind were belting out literally any of the songs from Homesick with my friends. It was such a great moment in time
As someone born in 1996, I grew up ignoring a lot of pop punk because my dad showed me “real punk” at a young age and I was too cool for everything current when I was growing up. The past couple years I’ve been revisiting a lot of music I should have listened to in my youth and have found a lot of love for the pop punk genre. Really loved this video and the message ♥️
There's Punk Rock with pop melodies. Then there are Pop bands trying to sound Punk. I digress..."Punk Rock should mean Freedom, as sloppy as you want, as long as it's good and has passion" -Kurt Cobain
Yeah I was kind of taken aback when Nirvana was included in the pop punk still at @0:50, they really aren't anything like pop punk. I do not get the inclusion of them in that.
I don't think kurt would ever have accociated nirvana with the pop punk scene he was raised on black flag and the wipers. I think some pop punk acts were inspired by nirvana for sure but they were never a pop punk band themselves never being as cleanly produced as those bands and kurt had much more interesting way to expres himselfs outside of your typical pop punk frontman whining about not getting some girl who wasn't even worth it. For a grunge band Nirvana were always much more punk then those so called pop punk bands that came after.
@@Heisenbinks agreed. He actually kept to the punk roots, pop punk bands didn't do that. They turned punk into boy band type music that was just about teenager's love life/failures. Which as a topic that is totally valid but they took punk and stripped it of the punk and turned it into just party music like top 20 pop artists. I don't think talking about teenager issues/relationships is bad in itself but they just churned those types of songs out, even when the groups are well into their 30s they're still making teenage love songs and it starts getting into super creepy territory. But I seriously do think pop punk was like the boy band-ification of "punk".
@@dudeman5303 dude 100% spot on couldn't think of a better way to say it myself. I find it so funny when pop punk trys to cling onto relevancy (Ala Mgk) while it becomes more and more watered down less punk and more pop at this point. It's not even pop punk now it's just pop with guitar these days! Luckily theres some great bands out there rn that really rock! They just dont get radio play/billions of streams but the good stuff is out there!!
One of my favorite recent concert memories was at AfterShock where blink was a headliner and the last band to play. The festival also included the likes of Tool, Marilyn Manson, and Rob Zombie. I thought it a really weird placement for them but once they opened up with Miss You it all made sense. People with spikes on their shoulders, torn shirts, and face painted make up were all singing in unison and it was amazing. We all were kids listening to them in the past and that moment it all made sense right then and there.
As someone raised on punk rock, listened to pop punk through my entire life to this day 27 years later, this video means a lot to me. Thank you so much for this. It sincerely feels like you encapsulated a large part of my life into this love letter. Thank you thank you thank you.
I think pop punk was so great (and also made fun of) was because it actually tried writing genuine music for teenagers. Teenagers feel everything so greatly, including happiness and sadness. These albums combined the silliness and melodramaticness of youth so perfectly.
Amazing video. I sadly wasn't around when these pop punk bands were big (am 18) but I think this genre absolutely transcends generations. The songs not only were catchy and absolute bangers, but as you said, incredibly sincere and often times quite well-written. Not to bash on today's music but I don't feel that this sort of thing is present these days as much. Most lyrics are either non-sensical or not really about anything. Meanwhile, pop punk somehow always managed to mix goofy and fun with meaningful and relatable. Lucky we have the internet to keep listening to the "oldies" :)
I'm old enough to have been a teen when the *original* punk was around, and my son (now 18) recently opened my ears to bands like MCR, Panic! At The Disco etc. I'm pretty into all this stuff, and perhaps it's partly nostalgia - after all, the original punk of the 1970s paved the way for all of this to happen. People used to say "punk's not dead, it just smells a bit", but maybe we should amend that to "punk's not dead, it got re-animated with modern production techniques".
There's still good stuff being made, big props to those in the older generations for actually trying to find new stuff instead of wallowing in the glory of their olden days
Pop Punk led me to post hardcore to bands like Thrice when I was 15, whom I love to this day. They just released a new album today which shows how far they've come as musicians and I love them.
This was so extremely well done. Taking a psychological dive into a genre that means the world to the people who grew up with it and lived it. This music has not only gotten people through difficult times, but has saved many lives in doing so, including my own. Thank you for putting this together.
I guess it's more later 2000s but I'm surprised you didn't mention all time low; they've been at it since they formed (releasing fairly consistent music from 2005 to this day), and dear maria and weightless will forever be pop punk classics!!
Awesome. I'm a little bit older than you, and this was a big part of my soundtrack to my undergrad music school experience. I'm now a high school music teacher and earlier this week a 15 year old girl told me Black Parade is her favorite song.
Genuinely love to see POC artists revive the genre that they never got to be apart of and doing something revolutionary with it. Willow blends her ethereal feel so well with the genre's fun loving side. And KennyHoopla has simply the greatest choruses up there with your Paramores and Fall Out Boys.
You captured a lot of my feelings about pop punk in this video. It’s what kept me alive in high school. It’s how I felt at 15. It’s how I feel now at 28. Zero clue what I’m supposed to be doing.
As a millennial born in 91, I was a very precocious music snob. I remember loving Blink-182 and Good Charlotte as a 10-11 year-old and then I made a hard left turn around the age of 12. I started listening to Dead Kennedys and other OG punk bands and instantly refused to shop at Hot Topic because it peddled "corporate punk". However, these pop-punk bands formed the soundtrack to my childhood and part of me wishes I had loosened up a bit at the time. I'll never forget being genuinely excited about Panic at the Disco, though. My elitist tastes couldn't help but love that band when they broke out.
Bruh you should have never refused to shop at Hot Topic, they have a lot of cool fandom stuff. Plus you should have enjoyed it while you can since malls are dying. I didn't get into a lot the band stuff Hot Topic had, until after it closed down. My local Hot Topic close down in favor of making Victoria's Secret bigger, I was so upset and with the reveal that Victoria's Secret was actually a very terrible company to Woman I became even more upset. I when to a mall outside of my town, and they had a hot topic and that Hot Topic sell band merch along with fandom stuff. I didn't buy anything there, because my sister was there with me and I did not want her to know about the music that I listened to (she will tell my parents, or use it to blackmail me.) Anyways moral the story is to just enjoy what you can.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 I get what you're saying, but a corporation making money off the punk aesthetic rubbed me the wrong way. Dead Kennedys' song "Anarchy For Sale" sums it up nicely.
@@snapdragon6601 For sure. Actually, The Offspring is still one of my favorite bands. Their songs were generally a bit deeper than Blink-182, and they were catchy as hell.
The pop-punk movement was my entire high school experience (quite literally because I entered grade nine in 1999). For girls, it was the antithesis of the bubble gum and manufactured pop of the day - not that this is an entirely good thing. As you said, there were some misogynistic elements to the music, and if we're being fair, nothing represents the baked-in misogyny of our society than railing on another girl because they bought into the Nsync/Backstreet Boys/Britney Spears manufactured pop cycle. That being said, pop-punk proved super useful for a wanna-be bass player, and the hits are still fun.
I'm a bit older... but I had my own version of this in the 90's. My first purchased album was Alice in Chains. I had Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. I also had early Green Day and Offspring. By the time pop/punk became mainstream (MTV TRL days), I couldn't stand it. Too pop, not enough punk for my tastes. I would catch some highlights... American Idiot, Bleed America, Black Parade, but when all of that was going on, I was on my own musical journeys. Pop/punk of the 2000's is still a void in my knowledge, but I get its impact and its influence. Thanks for the video! And yes, Worry is a great album.
Funny, born in '92, my first contact with Pop Punk was MTV. But the more I listened, the more I loved the older albums. Dude Ranch by Blink 182 and Dookie by Green Day are still the finest pop punk albums of all time for me, because the punk influences are more present. On the other hand, American Idiot and the self-titled album by Blink kind of created a new genre and were mind-blowing experiences.
I am also older but we called it neo punk back them in 90's and moved to electroclash in 2000, cause it was more punk than whatever that emo scene was into
I feel the same way. I was born in 1981, and my teen years were spent listening to grunge, metal, alternative rock, and classic rock (many of the same groups that you listed). By time that pop punk was popular in the late 90’s, I was into to other things like jazz, progressive rock, and indie rock. Pop punk was too immature and soft for me at that point in my life, so I never got into the style. I appreciate the talent of groups like Blink 182 and Sum 41, and I liked this video, but I don’t share Polyphonic’s sense of nostalgia for pop punk.
Also I think it's a little sad that you missed the entire wave of early 2010's pop punk. Bands like The Story So Far, Neck Deep, The Wonder Years, and Knuckle Puck really pushed the genre forward in a mature way and are some of the best bands in the genre.
It was bringing punk back down to the roots of the genre after the rocketing success of the 2000s, probably my favourite era and to add to your list Real Friends and Modern Baseball, and a little newer but the same style would have to be movements.
@@Pheatan Mobo is more emo than pop punk but there is definitely a huge overlap in those two genres. I don't really care for RF but no doubt they were huge and were one of the biggest bands in the scene at that time, and yes, I love Movements
I feel like billy talent should have garnerd an honorable mention. They were a little late to the party but I feel like they brought a more mature feel to the genre. Their second album, in my mind, is magnificent.
Sum 41 is the band that got me into music back in middle school during the early 2000s when I didn't know what I liked. Its great to see how much its adapted and still going strong.
This was such a great video! Blink, MCR, AFI, Fallout Boy, and all the rest were such staples of my teenage/early university years, this brought back so many great memories.
I see myself in every single word of the video. I think that one of the most important aspects of this genre is the sense of brotherhood that is created between people who do not even know each other. Is the feeling that makes you feel in a huge, enormous family held together by the feeling of not fitting in. I sincerely wanna thank you for this video that puts into words what i felt growing up listening to this music
this video is actually really important to me, thank you. as a teenager now this is my favorite genre right now, and i know a lot of people say you’ll grow out of the music you loved at 16 but I know in heart it will always be the most special thing to me. thank you for acknowledging this
Pop-punk was my first musical love, and a springboard into the other protest music genres that I love today like riot grrrl, folk punk and anti-folk. I still listen to pop-punk occasionally, it brings me back to the time when it was the only thing I would listen to.
Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown honestly goes so overlooked. it’s without a doubt my favorite of their albums and arguable the best and it just means so much to me. not to mention that each song is banger after banger with great messages and themes that just sound amazing. it has so much individuality to each song and is top tier green day and i wish it was more talked about like American Idiot is. honestly the title track, Before the Lobotomy, Last Night on Earth, East Jesus nowhere, Peachmaker, Restless heart syndrome, Little girl, American eulogy, masterpieces.
Saw Fall Out Boy this summer and a group of children were singing Sugar We’re Down on the way out, it gave me hope in the youth. Pop punk will never die 🤘
For me at 14 it was "new wave", Depeche Mode, Morrissey, the Smiths, and Duran Duran. I can see the similarities in theme to what you were listening to. It would be interesting to hear your take on that genre.
Pop punk is definitely a nice balance of party songs and a sincere teenaged genre, if white man teens or whoever can still relate to those latter songs then it's like, the genre and time period can only ascend in cultural power
The pop punk era stamped an indelible mark on myself, and I will never atop loving the songs that I indeed grew up with during my teenage years. These songs spoke to me about my fears and my anxieties in a way that no other medium could do and I thank every single artist of the era for holding a helping hand when I needed it the most. Thank you.
There's something to be said for making a video I really, really liked that celebrates some of my least favourite music of all time. You didn't change my mind about the music, but you did help me understand a bit more of what the people who liked this moment in music liked about it. Understanding each other is much more important than differences in taste. Very well done.
Pop punk is still something I listen too daily. I even have a TikTok dedicated to rocking out with Pop Punk Tracks. MxPx we’re my band of choice as a teen, sum41, Blink 182,Jimmy eat world, The Offspring, The Living End, One Dollar Short.. just to name a few. Great video!
I'm going to see All Time Low in a month! Can't wait to finally see a show again! I'm hyped about it. I'm also going to see Neck Deep and Boston Manor, but that'll be in November during Thanksgiving weekend! All of these bands are keeping pop punk alive! All of their albums from last year are great! Can't wait to see what they all do next!
To take some love from a Canadian pop punk band in Simple Plan, I’m just a kid (22) but good lord I love me some pop punk. Despite being a kid born into country music, and who still adores country to this day. Pop punk was the ultimate description of my edgy early teenage years, and still a genre I love today. There’s nothing like screaming along as an adult to a chorus that would you know you screamed in your room at 14
Fun fact that no one asked for - the rap at the beginning of the Fat Lip music video is actually from Dave's Possesed Hair/What We're All About from their album before All Killer No Filler, titled Half Hour of Power
I had very strict parents growing up. Controlled just about everything until I was 18. There are a lot of things I missed out on during my teenage years. I feel like now that I'm an adult I can go back and listen to but I know it wouldn't be the same. Just because something came out when you were a certain age doesn't mean you'll experience it the same way you would have when you were that age. I actually have a fairly eclectic taste in music now since I actually got to really explore music on my own later in life.
I agree a lot of songs hit harder at certain life stages. I enjoyed much of the music mentioned in the vid when it was popular at the time, but there's always a song or artist that somehow passes you by; I've tried to listen to albums created by other artists during the same time period and was a bit sad that my most prominent thought was, "I really would've enjoyed this had I listened to it when it first came out; this could've been a favorite song of mine," but while the music itself is still good, the lyrics are just so completely distanced from my current reality that I can't relate. You're in a very peculiar position of being rather untethered and incredibly free to explore different types of music; it must be pretty interesting to experience radically different sounds as an adult.
My parents never controlled me that much, however growing up I only had the radio/tv and there was the occasional CDs that my parents or sister owned but they don't buy CDs anymore. But that all changed when I was in 4th or 5th grade. My parents had gone me an iPad, and since I wasn't really monitored that much I got introduced to RUclips. I would mainly just watch a lot of PMVs back in the day, and those PMVs were my 1st introduction to rock music. Now sure I heard rock music on several TV shows and movies, but I grew up in the late 2000s/early 2010s and from my memory I don't really remember rock music being on the top charts and the rock music that I heard on those PMVs were mainly rock songs I have never heard before. It felt so unique and special.
24 year old man who got into the sub genre back in 2015. I was always familiar with bands like Blink-182, Green Day, and Bowling For Soup growing up. But everything changed when I discovered the band All Time Low in 2015. I almost instantly fell in love and related so much to the songs (for better or worse). That opened up the flood gates for so many other bands that I’d been sleeping on and to this day they are my favorite. Followed by Waterparks (a band that doesn’t like to define themself by a genre), and Marianas Trench (a Canadian band that is very unique and has much talent in their discography. I grew up through a time where rock music in general basically had its day and that was passed. It was all about hip hop and pop which I didn’t vibe with that well. But when I tell you how sometimes I feel that bands like ATL and the others mentioned saved me, how they all have music that fits for anything I’m going through, and how it all means so much to me, I can’t even begin to express. There are problems with the genre and the people in it for sure. I think a lot of gatekeepers are a huge problem it has. It makes me so happy that MGK’s done two rock albums back to back that have done very well commercially and Avril Lavigne is back on live TV performing in front of the masses. Hell ATL even performed “Monsters” on the Ellen show and that’s about as normie, suburban wine mom you can get. I am loving this new revival that rock is getting through acts like this and I hope it can be up with the greats again. But we have to be willing to let it change and adapt accordingly. When people get mad at Waterparks for putting auto-tune on ONE song which was released just cause they felt like it, or people say MGK can’t be rock and is only doing it now cause Em beat him out of rap (which if you look at his history, he’s had rock elements for years anyway) all it does is hamper the sub genre. We have to let it breathe, change, evolve, and allow people of all kinds make and enjoy the music. There’s no reason it should be a white boys club either. There are some great artists who are POC like Action/Adventure and they’re killing it! I get it. There’s something many people who were part of something special not wanting it to get too big and ruined. Green Day dealt with that a lot on their come up and still do. Today. But look at how successful things like superhero movies and how mainstream superheroes in general are now. When things become mainstream that’s not a bad thing. It’s an absolute win for everyone. So we need to keep loving what we love, and encouraging others to find enjoyment in our interests as well.
I was a teenager in the grunge/alternative era, but smoothly moved into the pop-punk period. I still listen to most of the bands mentioned well into my 40's now. Great music will always be great music :)
I was hoping the Wonder Years would get a mention here. They've really helped to push the scene in new directions and a lot of up-and-comers cite them as a major inspiration. I hope they don't have to wait as long as many in the Pop-punk genre before getting recognized beyond their genre.
Man, Descendents( a punk band formed in 1979, althought their first album, milo goes to college is from '82) basically invented pop punk with both Undertones and Buzzcocks. Criminally underrated
First of all: congrats on talking about music in a simple, yet informative way! Being born in '88, I totally relate to your video. Even though I have always been more drawn to progressive music, pop punk has always found a way into my ears - and my heart as a consequence. I'm no hypocrite though - I've had my share of lashing out at Avril Lavigne's "Let Go" or stuff from the late 00s. I guess I had the feeling these were "too mainstream" for my taste (dumb teenager being dumb, I know). Here where I live (Brazil) pop punk was a HUGE deal amongst youngsters. The pop punk lifestyle has been embraced for a very long time and we had a very vibrant circuit of bands that had the genre as their major influence (examples for your appreciation: CPM22, Fresno, NxZero, Dance of Days). Like I said before, I was never the pop punk enthusiast, but Offspring and Blink-182 were bands that had really grown on me - the former for their teenage angst and the latter for their beautiful melodies ('I miss you" and "Down", of course). I think pop punk doesn't get the recognition it deserves for the same reason people don't usually praise KISS for their music. Let me explain: KISS has made amazing music over the years, but their masked antics and theatricality were so overwhelming and so marketed that the music ends up being forgotten. I think the same can be applied for pop punk - the lifestyle and the pseudo-idiocy was more marketed than the music itself, which is a shame if you ask me. I agree with you: as I look back, I do think pop punk should receive more credit.
I’m 16 and over the last two years my music taste has changed drastically. I went from 95% rap to at the start of the year and at the moment I’m shouting to my chemical romance and Nirvana is the most listened band this year. Seeing how artists like Olivia Rodrigo getting big who are in the “pop punk” genre only tells me that pop punk will be back on the rise very again quickly.
Your musical taste will change as you get older. I'm 32 and I don't really listen to pop punk anymore except for when I'm in a nostalgic mood. Nowadays I Iisten more to post rock.
I know I'm late to this thread, but check out Anberlin. Specifically their 2nd album "Never Take Friendship Personal" and their 3rd album "Cities". They're my favorite band, and they tragically slipped under the mainstream radar.
As a 24 year old whose a teacher and just kind of working the grind, this video was crazy. I didn’t realize that I haven’t really listened to this genre since I was like 20, and I haven’t gone to a show in just as long, and as you started playing snippets of songs I started smiling and singing along, and then you got to Adam’s Song and I had to pause and just cry for awhile….and then I finished the video, continuing to cry. Wow. I didn’t realize how much I needed this kind of emotional release…I need to listen to my old playlists from Junior year of high school again. Genuinely, thank you Polyphonic.
I was born in '83, so in my youth it was the earlier stuff from bands like Green Day or The Offspring. Dookie, Smash etc... I kept listening to the newer records too, but as you say, nothing beats the "good old days" when you're young, carefree and discover music for the first time
Ah yes, this was my era and what got me really into music for the first time as well. I have branched out in the last 2 decades but I don't think I would be the person I am now if it wasn't for pop punk. I've moved past the stage of cringing at what I was into as a teen and gone back to fully embracing it, I'm glad I grew up when I did with so much great music as the soundtrack to my life.
i got into pop punk because of avril lavigne and simple plan when i was 11 and since then it never stopped being my favourite genre ever and trust me..i listen to almost every genre .. pop punk combines the catchy melodies i need in a song , the fast and punk sound i love , the lyrics that speak to me more than anything in this life and the coolest fashion ... my life whould suck (way more than it already does) without this music man..i still discover old pop punk bands/songs i never heard before or didn't bother listening to.. and i'm also so glad for its revival :')
as a teenager now, thank you for this it captured the emotions i feel beautifully. pop punk has such a special ability to connect with me even if i did not grow up amongst its hay day. i hold it dear to my heart, and i always will
Pop punk was such a huge scene for me in college with bands like Four Year Strong, The Wonder Years, Set Your Goals, This Time Next Year, Title Fight, I can go on, but without bands like MCR, Blink 182, Green Day, Sum 41, Paramore, Fall out Boy, and Panic at the disco, I definitely wouldn’t be the same 29 year old I am now
In defense of Pretty Fly, the misogyny was the point. A parody of someone embracing the surface level characteristics of another culture.
Sometimes the satire gets lost with these things. It was always pretty obviously heavy tounge in cheek for me
SAY IT WITH YOUR CHEST, KYLE!
The Offspring thrived with irony. That album began with a song titled Disclaimer where they read in an ironic voice "Warning, this album contains explicit depictions of things that are Real. These real thins are commonly known as Life..."
That was the end of the era where listening to whole albums was the norm. Now it is only done for really iconic releases.
@@Sam_on_RUclips YT Music won't even list albums by artist. This is being done *to* us.
@@Sam_on_RUclips That statement is being read by Jello Biafra no less, who as leader of the Dead Kennedys and several other projects afterward made his living off of being transgressive.
It started with Green Day and then I fell down the biggest rabbit hole of my life, I had my first few music tastes but now I’m completely trapped in pop-punk and I don’t want to leave. I’m 17 and the songs speak to me in a confusingly relatable way and the songs have comforted me in my hard times. Being a drummer and musician has given me a different perspective too, just being able to see how talented people are in this genre is astonishing. I will continue to force people to listen to pop-punk until the day I die.
Pop punk is a trash genre dude.
I'm 17 as well, have been trying to play guitar for a long while.
Punk rock helps me get through highschool, and it'll most likely help me get through this last year. Punk will never die.
Bro same
The fact that Olivia Rodrigo and Willow Smith's latest singles sound like Paramore was not lost on me. We'll see probably more of pop punk's influence resurface in new artists I'm sure.
I think you're right. I can see a pop punk revival coming in the younger generations now. My kids are listening to the same stuff I did and starting bands ❤️
@@susan3666 That's really awesome to hear.
i certainly hope so, it's such a fun sound and i adore what they've come out with
MGK has a great pop punk album
Machine Gun Kelly's "Tickets to My Downfall" album is incredibly pop punk.
As a 29 year old who teaches kids in the 11-17 bracket, it really warms my heart when they talk about their love for the music that shaped my youth.
It does not warm my heart, however, when they refer to New Found Glory as 'a retro band you probably won't have heard of Miss'...
Looool 😭😭😭 Idk why some of them act like that
🤣🤣
I'm 35 and was speaking bands I like at work and this early 20s guy called Green Day retro. >.
NFG is freakin' fantastic. Pop punk may be radio friendly bubble gum music sometimes but I don't even care. It has boundless energy and just sounds good to me..I am a bit older, and when I was 14 Green Day had just come out with their Dookie album. I've had a thing for pop punk bands ever since. 🙂
I had a 16 year old coworker come up to me to tell me about this “old underground band thats starting to blow up….” It was pierce the veil!! I couldn’t believe that they are already getting the old reputation.
Still jam to pop punk stuff often --- also your graphics are so next level!
Holy hell, yes, those graphics tie the whole video together, and constantly keep me engaged.
Thank you for this amazing comment through Our Lord Jesus Christ in His Holy Name Amen.
I love this genre because it’s not light, often really sad, but it’s also relentlessly and defiantly positive. It’s what I need for healing in my darkest moments. Something not pretending to be something I’m not, something that’s acknowledging the pain and sadness while actively defying that.
Relentlessly and defiantly positive.
Pretty sure that’s the part that gets me.
My depression likes hard rock, sad & low music.
Every other day? Pop punk.
Trying to pull myself out of a funk? Pop punk.
Covers of other songs? Pop punk!
❤
Funny. I was just telling my brother how we’re only a few years away from Warped Tour retrospectives and the potential canonization of that era and sound. A remastered box set of all of the Warped Tour compilations would essentially be a millennial version of Nuggets.
Fuck now I need a warped tour box set
For real.
Blink 182's self titled is a legit masterpiece when you know the genre and the context
I just had the same thought!
Agreed, I have to admit enema and jacket are my favourite eras but undoubtedly self titled is their work of art. Unfortunately I saw their tour of the self titled a few weeks before Tom left and they were just playing the song too damn fast. I guess they just wanted to get through the set so they could get away from each other back then 😢
"Stockholm Syndrome Interlude" and "Stockholm Syndrome" are both just amazing. The former is a recitation of a letter written by Mark Hoppus' grandfather during WWII, to his (Mark's) grandmother. I haven't verified this, but I also read that the audio is of his grandmother reading the letter too. When Blink-182's self-titled album came out, "Stockholm Syndrome" instantly became my favorite song from that album. Mark Hoppus has gone on record to say it's his favorite song they've ever done. I can understand why.
Really??
"Asthenia" on loop used to send me into a trance while doing hw and I honestly feel like it foreshadowed AVA vibes@@Aarzu
Polyphonic: “Pop punk is a movement that’s largely been ignored or forgotten by the critical press since”
Travis Barker: “Hold my drum sticks”.
Pop Punk is my favorite genre. It isn't dead, new artists are still pushing the genre forward
It is dead in the Mainstream and not relevant anymore.
@@NDY666 my man you do know that mgks pop punk album last year went platinum and reached number 1 on the billboard chart right
@@sxth2915 Well yes, but it took a decate to took Pop-Punk on NR1. Remember MGK is a Rapper and the Album include lots of Rap influences. I mean the biggest hit was a Rap/Pop-Punk song.
We play late 90s / early 2000s style pop punk, check us out if you have a minute. Help support the genre :)
@@NDY666 linkin park is rap/pop punk and they are amazing whats your point.
"Adam's Song" is Mark Hoppus' own personal struggle while Blink was touring, and the hopeful ending when he decided to keep going
ive heard so many explanations about this song I can't keep track anymore. I heard a local kid in my area ended himself sadly while listening to it and ppl say that Blink now gives free tickets to his sister whenever they come to our area. I've been unable to find any evidence of this being true tho
Please tell mom this was not her fault
@@CameronMcKee I heard somewhere that it was a fan of theirs who ended his life but wrote a last letter to them. Later they got the letter and wrote a song for Adam as a tribute? Not sure whats true tho
@@Aree. yeah, I hear that one too
@@Aree. 3rd this comment also I heard about it the same way about Adam's song. And for some reason I think of pop punk is only between when hardcore and America happened and like 2010 but that's just when I was raised.. I'm a geezer
The album Warning by Green Day doesn’t get enough credit. The way they combined folk with pop punk on songs about society, hope & self-discovery will always stick with me.
Green Day... the OGs of Pop Punk
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Ive been waiting a long time foor this moment to come byy destined for anything at allll
Best green day's album
I liked the songs “Warning” and “Church on Sunday”. “Macy’s Day Parade” and “Waiting” are neat too.
The Kids Aren't Alright was almost prophetic for my own friend group when I was a kid. It really hit hard back then, and listening to it now brings me right back. It's intense.
The chorus especially hits hard, that dissonance of missed opportunity and deferred dreams. What you hoped adulthood to be an vs what it became in reality.
Same. I got out of town the second time I saw flyers inviting people to the funeral of a friend who OD’d.
Now I’m sad. Thanks for the mmries.
Hayley Williams from Paramore made me a pop punk fan. Her voice then the guys on the guitars and drums were heavenly to my 14 yr old ears. Such nostalgia watching this video. 🙏🏾
I recently played "No Reason"by Sum 41 for a friend of mine who is a hardcore "classic rock" guy. He was blown away by how hard it hits. "This just....rocks." You're goddamn right it does. As a Canadian born in '92 everything about this video is amazing.
HELL YEAAAAAH
That album definitely had a certain chugginess to it that stood out from a lot of pop punk of its day
The thing about Sum 41 is they're a metal band at heart, and probably the best metal band from Canada, eh?
@@joho0 Woah Canada has a pretty influential metal scen with bands like anvil and annihilator. With anvil even inspiring the big four of thrash. Don't get me wrong I get what you're getting at but to say that is a huge disrespect for the underappreciated metal scene in Canada.
To be fair, Sum 41 has always leaned on to the heavier side, they just play pop punk for the mainstream success which they deservedly got (which isn't a bad thing at all). "Maiden and Priest were the gods that we praised", they did say, after all.
I'm a 54yr old, jaded, cynical, nihilistic professional musician and I have a sweet spot for Pop Punk, in fact my guilty pleasure is Green Day, but don't tell anyone my secret.
No worries mate. I’m 15 and I love Green Day.
thank you for sharing your secret, you are the most badass 55/56 year old i know🤘🏼
I get days where I say, while I'm scrolling through albums, "I don't feel like Dark side of the moon or Nevermind or Ok Computer", but when I don't know what to listen or what would hit the spot I always end up on pop-punk. It is the kind of music that I can literally listen to anytime, anywhere and it always boosts my energy. Those albums may not be the artistic masterpieces, but their entertainment value is off the charts. That's why when we discuss our favorite albums I always have the separate lists for these albums that don't fit amongst the likes of "In the court of the crimson king", "Loveless", "The velvet underground & Nico" etc. and most of them are pop-punk albums.
I can't imagine listening to some of those albums you listed too often. Take DSoTM for example. I think it's perfect, but I'd be lying if I said I listen to it all the time. If I want to listen to that stuff. I want to sit there, and really listen and immerse myself in it. But like you said with pop punk, it's something you can listen anytime anywhere. (I personally am not a a huge pop punk guy) but I have that kind of music too.
Completely agree!!!
I can’t stand dsotm and Pink Floyd is my favorite band
Yeah Velvet Underground featuring Nico is one of the most most epic albums ever released in my opinion
You want to a hear a punk rock masterpiece…
Chuck on Strung Out’s latest album ‘songs of armor and devotion’!!!!🥰🤤😍👊🏻🤘🏻
Pop Punk: If it reminds you of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, it’s pop punk.
Fight me.
American Idiot will always be my favorite album. When I first heard that album at 14, it changed my life and outlook on life. Before that, I had never had an album speak to me so much. It felt like it was written for me. Many of the feelings and struggles of the songs in American Idiot can honestly be applied to so much. If I’m feeling down, I sit down for a few hours and listen to the whole album. Homecoming as the final track sometimes gets me in tears. Got me through a lot.
Homecoming is the most underrated song on that album. It’s such an anthem and getting to hear all 3 of them sing their own part is just 🤌🏻 chefs kiss
Same. I was also born in 1993, so I was 11 when the album came out. It was actually the first record I ever listened to start to finish. I didn't really understand the purpose of an "album" back then. I just wanted to hear the singles I heard on the radio lol. So popping it in my discman and listening straight through, hearing all of the different transitions from song to song, the overarching themes and characters... It blew my mind. Green Day became the first band I ever loved after that, and I spiraled into the pop-punk rabbit hole throughout my middle school days. It became a part of me! Forever in love with the genre! Definitely not a phase.
I can totally relate! And I'm not even american, but I guess the themes of the album spoke directly to a whole generation. It perfectly synthesizes the typical millennial struggles, when we were just starting to realize just how bleak our future seemed.
And well ...I think we were right on that 😂
So that's probably why the album still touches so many of us when we listen to it almost 20 years later now.
Same here. I listened to American Idiot for the first time when I was 12, so it was in 2010, but the album resonated with me. Even today, it's still my favourite album, and I think the outlook they gave is just becoming more relevant over the years.
It was the first full album I listened to. I’ve memorized all 14 songs so much and listening to it again once in a while doesn’t feel as good as it used to.
For me, The Middle by Jimmy Eats World, it came out when I was 20 years old and I fell in love with that song, skip over a few years later and I have a 15 year old daughter, whenever she is feeling down, lonely, hurt, or cast out we listen to this song together. Music heals soul
I can't believe I got g-noted by you and 12tone in one day
I thought the same thing
And 12tone accidentally on-purpose described Polyphonic's channel instead of the musical definition of polyphony.
synergy!
@@wingracer1614 I just commented the same thing before scrolling through the comments!
Me too.....damn
I'd also recommend Yellowcard albums. Ocean Avenue, Paper Walls, but especially Lights and Sounds which is a concept album of sorts based on their hatred for Los Angeles through top notch pop punk anthems.
Ocean Avenue is easily in my top 3 for pop punk albums of all time! Yellowcard is also my 3rd favorite pop punk band of all time!
My husband and I still think Ocean Avenue is a listen-through, front-to-back album.
I met Yellowcard at warped tour, am I pop punk yet
My most listened to banf ever
I still listening to pop punk, it's still one of my favourite genres. And especially with PUP just killing it these last few years, I will never stop...
If you dig on Pup you should check out the orwells, the frights, mind spiders, and wavves
PUP are the bomb!
I am 16 years old, and I love pop punk. I beginning to listen it with 12 years old, Green Day was my first favorite band (green day still is my favorite). And I know that a lot of people of my generation beginning listening the classic pop punk and they love it too
Morbid Stuff was one of my favorite albums of the last decade in general. So fucking good.
Don't forget our boy Jeff Rosenstock! "Worry" and "we cool?" Are some of my favorite ever albums from pop-punk to be honest
Pop Punk quite honestly saved my life on several occasions. I would not still be here without having songs that carried me through my worst days by not letting me feel entirely alone like my depression wanted me to think. It continues to help me now at 28 and I believe it still will at 82
Sum 41 doesn’t get enough credit in guitar circles for writing some AMAZING riffs! And IDC, Bleed American is a masterpiece.
the hell song is one of my favourite riffs off all time just because of how catchy it is although that riff was written by deryck dave brownsound was incredible at writing riffs his metal influences helped massively
not to mention their riff on screaming bloody murder, they're really cool
My Bands I heard the most when I was in my teenage-years, were System of a Down, Slipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Fall out Boy, Metallica, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin
Sometimes I go back and hear these bands and it makes me somehow sad. It makes me sad because this time was so intensiv, that it takes so much more today to get to like a band as much as I like these bands
The Middle is excellent and the rest of Bleed American is stuffed to the gills with absolute bangers.
I still regularly listen to this album. It’s so good.
Jimmy Eat World’s discography is awfully underrated
I could not agree more, I didn’t come to appreciate that until recently. I feel like they’re a great example of a pop punk/emo band taking on more mature adult themes
Futures is literally epic. I don’t know which is better, everyone should have both
@@202guitars I’m kind of bristling at the inclusion of Jimmy Eat World as a pop punk band. I know a lot of people consider them enough and I guess I don’t really agree with that either…they never did the theatrics or the silliness or the drama and general over-the-top/ness that the rest of these bands did. They just made music that made you feel stuff, with deep, layered metaphor, complex rhythms and modes. They’re masterful. And I’m not saying these pop punk bands aren’t or weren’t, but I don’t think they’re the same. They’re also still making records and touring and I’m not sure how many of these other are.
I know you will hate me for this but I feel The Clash were one of the first bands to play a 'pop / punk' style, The Ramones also. By the time Green Day & Blink182 appeared it felt like a modern version of The Clash. But you could also add Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Police, The Jam, Billy Idol, Joe Jackson, The Pretenders, UB40, Madness, the Specials as all having Pop / Punk way before it was adopted by much larger MTV bands. Personally Avril Lavigne Skater Boi is the pinnacle of the style, nothing even comes close.
I get where you’re coming from, but I think a lot of that is reaching. I agree with it in theory. But pop punk as a scene and an aesthetic really is centralized long after most of those bands times. Punk with pop elements can certainly be defined as pop punk, but pop punk as it is known today was really formed by blink, Green Day and definitely Avril.
The Clash is most properly called "First Wave Punk" and groups like The Ramones were the beginning of "Post Punk." Green day and Sum 41 are considered Second Wave Punk and set the stage for groups like Blink to become pop-punk, which many of the second wave punk bands were also quite successful at.
The foundations of pop punk were laid right along with those of punk. I laugh when I hear fellow Boomers hate on pop punk then idolize The Ramones.
Ah sk8er boi.. :')
A lot of people forget that one of the bigger parts of being punk or making punk music isn't just the style, it's your ideology and politics. Punk rockers are usually more politically left because "punk" people were usually impoverished people who were thrifting what they could. Music was made highlighting the issues with poverty and oppression, and bam, the punk rock community started growing. A lot of older musicians like The Ramones and Avril Lavigne were loved by older people, but still not considered punk rock even though they were
AFI's "Sing the Sorrow" remains one of the most important albums of all time to me personally still.
I recently moved to SoCal and was pleasantly surprised to hear AFI on the radio from time to time.
im 18 and im in love with pop punk music. i discovered it when i was like 12. i quickly became a big fan of Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, blink-182 and Green Day. idk but early 00s music is just so pure, sincere and innocent
Damn. All this nostalgia got me crying in my car
Edit: my favorite memories in my mind were belting out literally any of the songs from Homesick with my friends. It was such a great moment in time
Getting old sucks but everybody's doing it.
Bowling for Soup
As someone born in 1996, I grew up ignoring a lot of pop punk because my dad showed me “real punk” at a young age and I was too cool for everything current when I was growing up. The past couple years I’ve been revisiting a lot of music I should have listened to in my youth and have found a lot of love for the pop punk genre. Really loved this video and the message ♥️
There's Punk Rock with pop melodies. Then there are Pop bands trying to sound Punk. I digress..."Punk Rock should mean Freedom, as sloppy as you want, as long as it's good and has passion"
-Kurt Cobain
Yeah I was kind of taken aback when Nirvana was included in the pop punk still at @0:50, they really aren't anything like pop punk. I do not get the inclusion of them in that.
I don't think kurt would ever have accociated nirvana with the pop punk scene he was raised on black flag and the wipers. I think some pop punk acts were inspired by nirvana for sure but they were never a pop punk band themselves never being as cleanly produced as those bands and kurt had much more interesting way to expres himselfs outside of your typical pop punk frontman whining about not getting some girl who wasn't even worth it. For a grunge band Nirvana were always much more punk then those so called pop punk bands that came after.
@@Heisenbinks agreed. He actually kept to the punk roots, pop punk bands didn't do that. They turned punk into boy band type music that was just about teenager's love life/failures. Which as a topic that is totally valid but they took punk and stripped it of the punk and turned it into just party music like top 20 pop artists. I don't think talking about teenager issues/relationships is bad in itself but they just churned those types of songs out, even when the groups are well into their 30s they're still making teenage love songs and it starts getting into super creepy territory. But I seriously do think pop punk was like the boy band-ification of "punk".
@@dudeman5303 dude 100% spot on couldn't think of a better way to say it myself. I find it so funny when pop punk trys to cling onto relevancy (Ala Mgk) while it becomes more and more watered down less punk and more pop at this point. It's not even pop punk now it's just pop with guitar these days! Luckily theres some great bands out there rn that really rock! They just dont get radio play/billions of streams but the good stuff is out there!!
@@dudeman5303 because he's had Pop sensibilities ever since The Beatles. Even if it sounds like Black Flag or Flipper playing Beatles or R.E.M. songs
Crying while listening to "The Middle" was a rite of passage if you were a teenager in the 2000s. If you claim you haven't, you're lying
As an adult this for sure made me tear up more then once.
nostalgia
One of my favorite recent concert memories was at AfterShock where blink was a headliner and the last band to play. The festival also included the likes of Tool, Marilyn Manson, and Rob Zombie. I thought it a really weird placement for them but once they opened up with Miss You it all made sense. People with spikes on their shoulders, torn shirts, and face painted make up were all singing in unison and it was amazing. We all were kids listening to them in the past and that moment it all made sense right then and there.
As someone raised on punk rock, listened to pop punk through my entire life to this day 27 years later, this video means a lot to me. Thank you so much for this. It sincerely feels like you encapsulated a large part of my life into this love letter. Thank you thank you thank you.
I think pop punk was so great (and also made fun of) was because it actually tried writing genuine music for teenagers. Teenagers feel everything so greatly, including happiness and sadness. These albums combined the silliness and melodramaticness of youth so perfectly.
Polyphonic videos have a way of setting my whole day in motion.
Amazing video. I sadly wasn't around when these pop punk bands were big (am 18) but I think this genre absolutely transcends generations. The songs not only were catchy and absolute bangers, but as you said, incredibly sincere and often times quite well-written. Not to bash on today's music but I don't feel that this sort of thing is present these days as much. Most lyrics are either non-sensical or not really about anything. Meanwhile, pop punk somehow always managed to mix goofy and fun with meaningful and relatable. Lucky we have the internet to keep listening to the "oldies" :)
Between Polyphonic, 12Tone, and Adam Neely, Polyphonic has the best intro music.
Adam has the best outro tho
BASS
What an era....🙏 Glad to have experience pop punk of the 2000s...
I'm old enough to have been a teen when the *original* punk was around, and my son (now 18) recently opened my ears to bands like MCR, Panic! At The Disco etc. I'm pretty into all this stuff, and perhaps it's partly nostalgia - after all, the original punk of the 1970s paved the way for all of this to happen. People used to say "punk's not dead, it just smells a bit", but maybe we should amend that to "punk's not dead, it got re-animated with modern production techniques".
Pop punk isn't dead... It just goes to bed early now 😂
There's still good stuff being made, big props to those in the older generations for actually trying to find new stuff instead of wallowing in the glory of their olden days
@@susan3666 like BFS says "Getting old sucks...but everybody's doing it."
Doesn't the term "punks not dead" comes from the title (and first song) of the 1981 album punks not dead by Scottish Hardcore punk band The exploited
@@JB_exposures I honestly have no idea but that sounds plausible! :)
I absolutely love your vocabulary, how you talk, your graphics are insane and these videos just give me so much dopamine
Pop Punk led me to post hardcore to bands like Thrice when I was 15, whom I love to this day. They just released a new album today which shows how far they've come as musicians and I love them.
Have you heard Wolf Van Halen's stuff? (Yes, THAT Van Halen)
@@fatalimmortality801 no
the new Thrice album is so dope
This was so extremely well done. Taking a psychological dive into a genre that means the world to the people who grew up with it and lived it. This music has not only gotten people through difficult times, but has saved many lives in doing so, including my own. Thank you for putting this together.
I guess it's more later 2000s but I'm surprised you didn't mention all time low; they've been at it since they formed (releasing fairly consistent music from 2005 to this day), and dear maria and weightless will forever be pop punk classics!!
I randomly yell DEAR MARIA COUNT ME IN at least once a week religiously
Weightless is a stone cold classic.
All time low... Named after a NFG lyric that weren't mentioned either 🥺
@@itsJoelSandoval I play that song in the kitchen to summon the kids for dinner ✌️
i know! they are still going hard, i just saw them on tour like 3 weeks ago and they are still like they used to be
Born in 04 and I’ve grown up with the genre and it’s helped me through so much shit.
Born in 1990, but I have the same story. This shit got me through a good chunk of my life.
Awesome. I'm a little bit older than you, and this was a big part of my soundtrack to my undergrad music school experience. I'm now a high school music teacher and earlier this week a 15 year old girl told me Black Parade is her favorite song.
Genuinely love to see POC artists revive the genre that they never got to be apart of and doing something revolutionary with it. Willow blends her ethereal feel so well with the genre's fun loving side. And KennyHoopla has simply the greatest choruses up there with your Paramores and Fall Out Boys.
Nobody kept them out of it. Stop trying to make everything racial
The love for pop punk is well deserved. Billy Talent, 311, and even some of the newer punk bands around all deserve that love too.
You captured a lot of my feelings about pop punk in this video. It’s what kept me alive in high school. It’s how I felt at 15. It’s how I feel now at 28. Zero clue what I’m supposed to be doing.
As a millennial born in 91, I was a very precocious music snob. I remember loving Blink-182 and Good Charlotte as a 10-11 year-old and then I made a hard left turn around the age of 12. I started listening to Dead Kennedys and other OG punk bands and instantly refused to shop at Hot Topic because it peddled "corporate punk". However, these pop-punk bands formed the soundtrack to my childhood and part of me wishes I had loosened up a bit at the time.
I'll never forget being genuinely excited about Panic at the Disco, though. My elitist tastes couldn't help but love that band when they broke out.
Bruh you should have never refused to shop at Hot Topic, they have a lot of cool fandom stuff. Plus you should have enjoyed it while you can since malls are dying. I didn't get into a lot the band stuff Hot Topic had, until after it closed down. My local Hot Topic close down in favor of making Victoria's Secret bigger, I was so upset and with the reveal that Victoria's Secret was actually a very terrible company to Woman I became even more upset. I when to a mall outside of my town, and they had a hot topic and that Hot Topic sell band merch along with fandom stuff. I didn't buy anything there, because my sister was there with me and I did not want her to know about the music that I listened to (she will tell my parents, or use it to blackmail me.) Anyways moral the story is to just enjoy what you can.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 I get what you're saying, but a corporation making money off the punk aesthetic rubbed me the wrong way. Dead Kennedys' song "Anarchy For Sale" sums it up nicely.
Hey, at least you recognize that now and aren't afraid to admit that pop punk music can be great and sincere too.
@@snapdragon6601 For sure. Actually, The Offspring is still one of my favorite bands. Their songs were generally a bit deeper than Blink-182, and they were catchy as hell.
@@gingerpunk2129 I totally agree. I got their Smash album when it first came out listened to it all Summer. It was great! 😁
The pop-punk movement was my entire high school experience (quite literally because I entered grade nine in 1999). For girls, it was the antithesis of the bubble gum and manufactured pop of the day - not that this is an entirely good thing. As you said, there were some misogynistic elements to the music, and if we're being fair, nothing represents the baked-in misogyny of our society than railing on another girl because they bought into the Nsync/Backstreet Boys/Britney Spears manufactured pop cycle. That being said, pop-punk proved super useful for a wanna-be bass player, and the hits are still fun.
I still listen to sum41, Green Day, and such bands all the time. They are just too much fun and high energy.
Stuck in head for days - yep "Scotty Doesn't Know" was stuck in my head most of last week!
I'm a bit older... but I had my own version of this in the 90's. My first purchased album was Alice in Chains. I had Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. I also had early Green Day and Offspring. By the time pop/punk became mainstream (MTV TRL days), I couldn't stand it. Too pop, not enough punk for my tastes. I would catch some highlights... American Idiot, Bleed America, Black Parade, but when all of that was going on, I was on my own musical journeys. Pop/punk of the 2000's is still a void in my knowledge, but I get its impact and its influence. Thanks for the video! And yes, Worry is a great album.
Funny, born in '92, my first contact with Pop Punk was MTV. But the more I listened, the more I loved the older albums. Dude Ranch by Blink 182 and Dookie by Green Day are still the finest pop punk albums of all time for me, because the punk influences are more present. On the other hand, American Idiot and the self-titled album by Blink kind of created a new genre and were mind-blowing experiences.
Offspring isn't really pop punk its more skatepunk and surfpunk in its roots
I am also older but we called it neo punk back them in 90's and moved to electroclash in 2000, cause it was more punk than whatever that emo scene was into
Jesus... those subgenres are outta control. If you say punk, I have a good basic idea. If you say pop punk, I have a better idea. Neo? Surf? Gtfo.
I feel the same way. I was born in 1981, and my teen years were spent listening to grunge, metal, alternative rock, and classic rock (many of the same groups that you listed). By time that pop punk was popular in the late 90’s, I was into to other things like jazz, progressive rock, and indie rock. Pop punk was too immature and soft for me at that point in my life, so I never got into the style. I appreciate the talent of groups like Blink 182 and Sum 41, and I liked this video, but I don’t share Polyphonic’s sense of nostalgia for pop punk.
Also I think it's a little sad that you missed the entire wave of early 2010's pop punk. Bands like The Story So Far, Neck Deep, The Wonder Years, and Knuckle Puck really pushed the genre forward in a mature way and are some of the best bands in the genre.
It was bringing punk back down to the roots of the genre after the rocketing success of the 2000s, probably my favourite era and to add to your list Real Friends and Modern Baseball, and a little newer but the same style would have to be movements.
@@Pheatan Mobo is more emo than pop punk but there is definitely a huge overlap in those two genres. I don't really care for RF but no doubt they were huge and were one of the biggest bands in the scene at that time, and yes, I love Movements
TSSF is GOAT. It’s hard to find another band that released 4 amazing albums back to back
@@alexiluffy216 For real, Parker's side projects slap as well
deadass that’s the whole reason i clicked on this video
I love how the channel now has people waiting to see the video on release. It's like the new iPad or something.
I feel like billy talent should have garnerd an honorable mention. They were a little late to the party but I feel like they brought a more mature feel to the genre. Their second album, in my mind, is magnificent.
Pop punk is very under appreciated culturally in a musicology sense.
Sum 41 is the band that got me into music back in middle school during the early 2000s when I didn't know what I liked. Its great to see how much its adapted and still going strong.
This was such a great video! Blink, MCR, AFI, Fallout Boy, and all the rest were such staples of my teenage/early university years, this brought back so many great memories.
I see myself in every single word of the video. I think that one of the most important aspects of this genre is the sense of brotherhood that is created between people who do not even know each other. Is the feeling that makes you feel in a huge, enormous family held together by the feeling of not fitting in. I sincerely wanna thank you for this video that puts into words what i felt growing up listening to this music
this video is actually really important to me, thank you. as a teenager now this is my favorite genre right now, and i know a lot of people say you’ll grow out of the music you loved at 16 but I know in heart it will always be the most special thing to me. thank you for acknowledging this
You just said the truth.
Thank you.
I‘m a teenager right now, and there is a shelf in my room, full with CDs I bought.
Pop Punk is still alive.
sameee
Pop-punk was my first musical love, and a springboard into the other protest music genres that I love today like riot grrrl, folk punk and anti-folk. I still listen to pop-punk occasionally, it brings me back to the time when it was the only thing I would listen to.
any anti-folk recs for a total stranger here? i love folk and folk punk so i think it’s only fair i give it a try!
@@sundogsun Sorry for the super late reply but jeffery lewis, the moldy peaches, and daniel johnston would probably be the top ones for me
Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown honestly goes so overlooked. it’s without a doubt my favorite of their albums and arguable the best and it just means so much to me. not to mention that each song is banger after banger with great messages and themes that just sound amazing. it has so much individuality to each song and is top tier green day and i wish it was more talked about like American Idiot is. honestly the title track, Before the Lobotomy, Last Night on Earth, East Jesus nowhere, Peachmaker, Restless heart syndrome, Little girl, American eulogy, masterpieces.
this was a wholesome trip to my earliest teens since we're the same generation, loved it.
1:55 I literally _just_ finished watching 12tone's analysis of "Welcome to the Black Parade" - synergy!
Saw Fall Out Boy this summer and a group of children were singing Sugar We’re Down on the way out, it gave me hope in the youth. Pop punk will never die 🤘
I will NEVER not feel badass saying the words “A loaded god complex / Cock it and pull it”
For me at 14 it was "new wave", Depeche Mode, Morrissey, the Smiths, and Duran Duran. I can see the similarities in theme to what you were listening to. It would be interesting to hear your take on that genre.
Did you hear Mad World playing in the background?????
It distracted me a little. I love it.
Pop punk is definitely a nice balance of party songs and a sincere teenaged genre, if white man teens or whoever can still relate to those latter songs then it's like, the genre and time period can only ascend in cultural power
The pop punk era stamped an indelible mark on myself, and I will never atop loving the songs that I indeed grew up with during my teenage years.
These songs spoke to me about my fears and my anxieties in a way that no other medium could do and I thank every single artist of the era for holding a helping hand when I needed it the most. Thank you.
There's something to be said for making a video I really, really liked that celebrates some of my least favourite music of all time. You didn't change my mind about the music, but you did help me understand a bit more of what the people who liked this moment in music liked about it. Understanding each other is much more important than differences in taste. Very well done.
Pop punk is still something I listen too daily. I even have a TikTok dedicated to rocking out with Pop Punk Tracks. MxPx we’re my band of choice as a teen, sum41, Blink 182,Jimmy eat world, The Offspring, The Living End, One Dollar Short.. just to name a few. Great video!
I'm going to see All Time Low in a month! Can't wait to finally see a show again! I'm hyped about it. I'm also going to see Neck Deep and Boston Manor, but that'll be in November during Thanksgiving weekend! All of these bands are keeping pop punk alive! All of their albums from last year are great! Can't wait to see what they all do next!
If you haven't seen Boston Manor before, you're going to love them
Jesus, I can’t believe All Time Low isn’t completely dead yet
I met the boys after their 10/21 Buffalo show!! You’re in for a wonderful time, they’re AMAZING! Very sweet and polite when we met too 🥺
Seriously one of the best analysis videos I've seen in a long time. I've been subbed to you for years but this one was just beautifully done.
I’m a teenager and I agree that pop punk kicks ass! I won’t stop listening to it especially MCR and Green Day.
Bro this video made me cry, this genre just hits me and undoubtedly many people my age on an emotional level
To take some love from a Canadian pop punk band in Simple Plan, I’m just a kid (22) but good lord I love me some pop punk. Despite being a kid born into country music, and who still adores country to this day. Pop punk was the ultimate description of my edgy early teenage years, and still a genre I love today. There’s nothing like screaming along as an adult to a chorus that would you know you screamed in your room at 14
Fun fact that no one asked for - the rap at the beginning of the Fat Lip music video is actually from Dave's Possesed Hair/What We're All About from their album before All Killer No Filler, titled Half Hour of Power
I had very strict parents growing up. Controlled just about everything until I was 18. There are a lot of things I missed out on during my teenage years. I feel like now that I'm an adult I can go back and listen to but I know it wouldn't be the same. Just because something came out when you were a certain age doesn't mean you'll experience it the same way you would have when you were that age. I actually have a fairly eclectic taste in music now since I actually got to really explore music on my own later in life.
I agree a lot of songs hit harder at certain life stages. I enjoyed much of the music mentioned in the vid when it was popular at the time, but there's always a song or artist that somehow passes you by; I've tried to listen to albums created by other artists during the same time period and was a bit sad that my most prominent thought was, "I really would've enjoyed this had I listened to it when it first came out; this could've been a favorite song of mine," but while the music itself is still good, the lyrics are just so completely distanced from my current reality that I can't relate.
You're in a very peculiar position of being rather untethered and incredibly free to explore different types of music; it must be pretty interesting to experience radically different sounds as an adult.
My parents never controlled me that much, however growing up I only had the radio/tv and there was the occasional CDs that my parents or sister owned but they don't buy CDs anymore. But that all changed when I was in 4th or 5th grade. My parents had gone me an iPad, and since I wasn't really monitored that much I got introduced to RUclips. I would mainly just watch a lot of PMVs back in the day, and those PMVs were my 1st introduction to rock music. Now sure I heard rock music on several TV shows and movies, but I grew up in the late 2000s/early 2010s and from my memory I don't really remember rock music being on the top charts and the rock music that I heard on those PMVs were mainly rock songs I have never heard before. It felt so unique and special.
24 year old man who got into the sub genre back in 2015. I was always familiar with bands like Blink-182, Green Day, and Bowling For Soup growing up. But everything changed when I discovered the band All Time Low in 2015. I almost instantly fell in love and related so much to the songs (for better or worse). That opened up the flood gates for so many other bands that I’d been sleeping on and to this day they are my favorite. Followed by Waterparks (a band that doesn’t like to define themself by a genre), and Marianas Trench (a Canadian band that is very unique and has much talent in their discography.
I grew up through a time where rock music in general basically had its day and that was passed. It was all about hip hop and pop which I didn’t vibe with that well. But when I tell you how sometimes I feel that bands like ATL and the others mentioned saved me, how they all have music that fits for anything I’m going through, and how it all means so much to me, I can’t even begin to express.
There are problems with the genre and the people in it for sure. I think a lot of gatekeepers are a huge problem it has. It makes me so happy that MGK’s done two rock albums back to back that have done very well commercially and Avril Lavigne is back on live TV performing in front of the masses. Hell ATL even performed “Monsters” on the Ellen show and that’s about as normie, suburban wine mom you can get.
I am loving this new revival that rock is getting through acts like this and I hope it can be up with the greats again. But we have to be willing to let it change and adapt accordingly. When people get mad at Waterparks for putting auto-tune on ONE song which was released just cause they felt like it, or people say MGK can’t be rock and is only doing it now cause Em beat him out of rap (which if you look at his history, he’s had rock elements for years anyway) all it does is hamper the sub genre. We have to let it breathe, change, evolve, and allow people of all kinds make and enjoy the music. There’s no reason it should be a white boys club either. There are some great artists who are POC like Action/Adventure and they’re killing it!
I get it. There’s something many people who were part of something special not wanting it to get too big and ruined. Green Day dealt with that a lot on their come up and still do. Today. But look at how successful things like superhero movies and how mainstream superheroes in general are now. When things become mainstream that’s not a bad thing. It’s an absolute win for everyone. So we need to keep loving what we love, and encouraging others to find enjoyment in our interests as well.
I was a teenager in the grunge/alternative era, but smoothly moved into the pop-punk period. I still listen to most of the bands mentioned well into my 40's now. Great music will always be great music :)
12:58 Cant believe you didn’t include what’s my age again, that songs chorus has been ingrained in my head since like 2019
I was hoping the Wonder Years would get a mention here. They've really helped to push the scene in new directions and a lot of up-and-comers cite them as a major inspiration. I hope they don't have to wait as long as many in the Pop-punk genre before getting recognized beyond their genre.
Love the Wonder Years but I believe Polyphonic wanted to focus heavenly on the peak of mainstream of pop punk
Man, Descendents( a punk band formed in 1979, althought their first album, milo goes to college is from '82) basically invented pop punk with both Undertones and Buzzcocks. Criminally underrated
First of all: congrats on talking about music in a simple, yet informative way!
Being born in '88, I totally relate to your video. Even though I have always been more drawn to progressive music, pop punk has always found a way into my ears - and my heart as a consequence.
I'm no hypocrite though - I've had my share of lashing out at Avril Lavigne's "Let Go" or stuff from the late 00s. I guess I had the feeling these were "too mainstream" for my taste (dumb teenager being dumb, I know).
Here where I live (Brazil) pop punk was a HUGE deal amongst youngsters. The pop punk lifestyle has been embraced for a very long time and we had a very vibrant circuit of bands that had the genre as their major influence (examples for your appreciation: CPM22, Fresno, NxZero, Dance of Days).
Like I said before, I was never the pop punk enthusiast, but Offspring and Blink-182 were bands that had really grown on me - the former for their teenage angst and the latter for their beautiful melodies ('I miss you" and "Down", of course).
I think pop punk doesn't get the recognition it deserves for the same reason people don't usually praise KISS for their music. Let me explain: KISS has made amazing music over the years, but their masked antics and theatricality were so overwhelming and so marketed that the music ends up being forgotten. I think the same can be applied for pop punk - the lifestyle and the pseudo-idiocy was more marketed than the music itself, which is a shame if you ask me. I agree with you: as I look back, I do think pop punk should receive more credit.
I’m 16 and over the last two years my music taste has changed drastically. I went from 95% rap to at the start of the year and at the moment I’m shouting to my chemical romance and Nirvana is the most listened band this year. Seeing how artists like Olivia Rodrigo getting big who are in the “pop punk” genre only tells me that pop punk will be back on the rise very again quickly.
Your musical taste will change as you get older. I'm 32 and I don't really listen to pop punk anymore except for when I'm in a nostalgic mood. Nowadays I Iisten more to post rock.
I know I'm late to this thread, but check out Anberlin. Specifically their 2nd album "Never Take Friendship Personal" and their 3rd album "Cities".
They're my favorite band, and they tragically slipped under the mainstream radar.
same but I listened to regular radio pop and now its like a weird blend of post hardcore, ‘real’ emo, metal, punk, and pop punk.
As a 24 year old whose a teacher and just kind of working the grind, this video was crazy. I didn’t realize that I haven’t really listened to this genre since I was like 20, and I haven’t gone to a show in just as long, and as you started playing snippets of songs I started smiling and singing along, and then you got to Adam’s Song and I had to pause and just cry for awhile….and then I finished the video, continuing to cry. Wow. I didn’t realize how much I needed this kind of emotional release…I need to listen to my old playlists from Junior year of high school again. Genuinely, thank you Polyphonic.
I was born in '83, so in my youth it was the earlier stuff from bands like Green Day or The Offspring. Dookie, Smash etc... I kept listening to the newer records too, but as you say, nothing beats the "good old days" when you're young, carefree and discover music for the first time
Ah yes, this was my era and what got me really into music for the first time as well. I have branched out in the last 2 decades but I don't think I would be the person I am now if it wasn't for pop punk. I've moved past the stage of cringing at what I was into as a teen and gone back to fully embracing it, I'm glad I grew up when I did with so much great music as the soundtrack to my life.
i got into pop punk because of avril lavigne and simple plan when i was 11 and since then it never stopped being my favourite genre ever and trust me..i listen to almost every genre .. pop punk combines the catchy melodies i need in a song , the fast and punk sound i love , the lyrics that speak to me more than anything in this life and the coolest fashion ... my life whould suck (way more than it already does) without this music man..i still discover old pop punk bands/songs i never heard before or didn't bother listening to.. and i'm also so glad for its revival :')
This gunna be good
About as good as pop punk
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as a teenager now, thank you for this it captured the emotions i feel beautifully. pop punk has such a special ability to connect with me even if i did not grow up amongst its hay day. i hold it dear to my heart, and i always will
Welcome to the Black Parade is like the visual lovechild of Sgt. Pepper and the 1927 sci-fi epic film Metropolis.
as a brazillian soon-to-be 16 year old i cant understand how my friends dont love pop-punk
Pop punk was such a huge scene for me in college with bands like Four Year Strong, The Wonder Years, Set Your Goals, This Time Next Year, Title Fight, I can go on, but without bands like MCR, Blink 182, Green Day, Sum 41, Paramore, Fall out Boy, and Panic at the disco, I definitely wouldn’t be the same 29 year old I am now
Dookie came out when I was 13 turning 14 and I’ve been hooked ever since. Great video as always.