ok, guys. i hate the emo scene and emo kids just as much as the last guy and worship bands like the descendents, unwritten law, nofx, rancid, screeching weasel, but you gotta see the line of pop punk and emo. emo is silt your wrists, wear black 24/7, hate your life and everything that revolves around it, and like bands like panic a the disco and good charlotte. (aka: mtv gen.).
and then there is pop punk: have unscarred wrists, wear regular clothes, and like regular bands that dont involve singers thats voices are high as hell. also pop bands dont let mtv overtake them and shoot them down (as green day just did recently). they realize that attention is good, but there is a limit that you dont wanna cross to where you hear that damn song american idiot 17 times a day. bands like blink got their influences from the great bands we know as nofx, screeching weasel, unwritten law, and especially the decendents. while emo bands' influence might just be what they think life is about, slitting wrists and being gay.
and for that reason i have absolutley no problem with bands like blink because they hate the emo kids just as much as nofx probably does while they think that they might ruin their rep. they are not considered a puss punk band just because they sing about girls. look at some of the greats. they sing about girls and you still listen to them and respect them as a true punk band. im not saying that blink is a true punk band, but dont diss them because they like to make jokes about proctoligits, ############ vag's. and that no way is accosiated with "church".
and for this reason, i think emo should be classified as a seperate genre from punk. they are the ones who created this shadow over real punk and threw it out the window forgetting their roots.
and as we await for the "second coming of a true punk band" we should just respect what bands like the decendents and nofx gave us.
ok, guys. i hate the emo scene and emo kids just as much as the last guy and worship bands like the descendents, unwritten law, nofx, rancid, screeching weasel, but you gotta see the line of pop punk and emo. emo is silt your wrists, wear black 24/7, hate your life and everything that revolves around it, and like bands like panic a the disco and good charlotte. (aka: mtv gen.). and then there is pop punk: have unscarred wrists, wear regular clothes, and like regular bands that dont involve singers thats voices are high as hell. also pop bands dont let mtv overtake them and shoot them down (as green day just did recently). they realize that attention is good, but there is a limit that you dont wanna cross to where you hear that damn song american idiot 17 times a day. bands like blink got their influences from the great bands we know as nofx, screeching weasel, unwritten law, and especially the decendents. while emo bands' influence might just be what they think life is about, slitting wrists and being gay. and for that reason i have absolutley no problem with bands like blink because they hate the emo kids just as much as nofx probably does while they think that they might ruin their rep. they are not considered a puss punk band just because they sing about girls. look at some of the greats. they sing about girls and you still listen to them and respect them as a true punk band. im not saying that blink is a true punk band, but dont diss them because they like to make jokes about proctoligits, ############ vag's. and that no way is accosiated with "church". and for this reason, i think emo should be classified as a seperate genre from punk. they are the ones who created this shadow over real punk and threw it out the window forgetting their roots. and as we await for the "second coming of a true punk band" we should just respect what bands like the decendents and nofx gave us.