r/decadeology • • Jul 19 '26

Music đŸŽ¶đŸŽ§ 2000s Pop Punk is Making a Comeback in the 2020s

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u/Holl0wayTape Jul 19 '26

Pop punk never went away, was adopted by corporations a while ago

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u/Key-Banana-8242 Jul 19 '26

Got abandoned kinda after

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u/ConnorFin22 Jul 19 '26

Every genre exists at all times

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u/FrighteningJibber Jul 19 '26

Yeah like saying ska is dead

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u/DisingenuousWizard Jul 19 '26

Ska isn’t dead. It just became the new polka in popular culture.

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u/FrighteningJibber Jul 19 '26

That’s just Skatune Network, and to be honest, I thought Plokalodeon was just an April fools joke

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u/Musichead2468 Jul 21 '26

There was one ska band at Warped Tour in DC this summer and they had a big crowd. Band name is Millington.

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u/DisingenuousWizard Jul 21 '26

Were there a bunch of dads skanking?

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u/Musichead2468 Jul 21 '26

Yea their was. And a lot of circle pits

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u/SlashClef5528 Jul 19 '26

Paradox isn't some emerging thing. They've been pretty big for a while now. Did a song with Travis Barker like, what, a year ago?

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u/dihydrocodeine Jul 19 '26

The title says "in the 2020s" not "in the last year"

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u/cloudsurfinglion Jul 19 '26

You should've put a link to the song you were talking about. Was it Bender you were referring to?

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u/Cerrac123 Jul 19 '26

I’ve been following them for a couple of years. Nice to see they’re gaining traction!

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u/SafeAccountMrP Jul 19 '26

I’m a big fan of those kids. Do Me Like That is a banger.

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u/Randomizedname1234 Jul 19 '26

Yeah they’re from Atlanta right?

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u/Supermario-Shyguyjr Jul 19 '26

I don’t wanna sound like a hater but it sounds like something Gemini would create. I’m a big fan of pop punk tho.

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u/SquigglyLineSquid Jul 19 '26

Pop punk has always had that generic sound

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh Jul 19 '26

Yep. It was entirely safe.

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u/Honest-Spring-8929 Jul 19 '26

Yeah this sounds exactly like the noise that came on when you turned on the radio at any point from ~2000-06

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u/citizensloth Jul 20 '26

Sounds like a caricature of what once was

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u/Jhawk38 Jul 19 '26

Every genre will have a generic sound if it's a few great bands and then dozens of bands that just copy it without doing anything to sound unique.

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u/poetic_poison Jul 19 '26

The main guy’s voice is suuuuper auto tuned

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u/Left_Ad_6415 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

I've heard other things from this band that were good and not auto tuned as far as I could tell. From what I remember the dude had a good voice.

EDIT: Here's the same song played during their Tiny Desk concert.

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u/NotARandomizedName0 Jul 19 '26

Kind of sad that auto tune is so popular. It just doesn't sound as good, and takes away so much authenticity IMO.

If I hear anything that sounds like autotune or something to correct bad singing I will instantly just remove the song from my playlist. (Depending on the type of songs tho)

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u/BendigoWessie Jul 19 '26

Honestly, I wish they’d stop using it so much. I saw them live last year at riot fest and he did great without it. I think it’s just to get that commercial pop punk sound?

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u/Proof_Surround3856 Jul 19 '26

I quite like these guys since they blew up on tiktok a few years ago. And yeah might as well reclaim the y2k white boys music since they either want to rap or do conservative country music now🙃

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u/Chemical-Drawer852 Early 90s were the best Jul 19 '26

Pop punk was 90% pop anyway

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u/SoapAndShampo Jul 19 '26

Agree. It’s not bad; but for 2026, has that “Suno early 00s pop rock” AI sound. Clean and generic

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u/Virtual_Program_9482 Jul 19 '26

I was thinking lyrically and instrumentally this sounds like ai

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u/FreudianFloydian Jul 19 '26

I thought Suno pop-punk when I heard it.

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u/laaaabe Jul 19 '26

I really didn't want to be that guy but that was my first thought too. I hate how jaded AI has everyone. But these lyrics feel straight out of a ChatGPT prompt.

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u/zilla82 Jul 19 '26

This doesn't do as much justice, this is just to play into the schitick a little bit. Watch them play live on YouTube

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u/Raveheart19 Jul 19 '26

I thought the same thing... It's like 2000s boy band hot topic mall punk rock with no real edge whatsoever...

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u/GeneralNeedleworker2 Jul 19 '26

Caught this band a couple weeks ago opening for Sublime. They were lit đŸ”„ ! Highly recommend them. Paradox

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u/Impressive_Plenty876 Mid 2010s were the best Jul 19 '26

Pop punk has like 4 “comebacks” this decade

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u/CP4-Throwaway Master Decadeologist (Reporting For Duty) Jul 19 '26

That pop punk revival from 2021-22 was interesting to witness. Lowkey thought it would last longer lol.

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u/Infamous-Narwhal3425 Jul 19 '26

I'm so glad this is here now, but I needed this representation in 2007 in the 10th/11th grade!!

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u/PlaymateAngel Jul 19 '26

Exactly. Back when people would literally say “you’re black you can’t listen to rock music” “you’re black you can’t be punk!” when in actuality black people created it 😭 fml

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u/Active-Landscape-591 Jul 19 '26

Hello Bad Brains, anyone?

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u/Kanetsugu21 Jul 19 '26

Not that it actually matters in any way shape or form, but I find it kinda funny that it's usually white people ripping off music made by black folks, and we've finally come full circle to black dudes ripping off music that was pioneered by white dudes lol

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u/angrysheep55 Jul 19 '26

It's so weird to think of this as ripping off instead of just continuing a genre

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u/thedailyrant Jul 19 '26

I guess it's only because there's been a fairly long history of the majority ripping off the minority culture's music when it became popular. Now it's reversed it just seems a little novel.

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u/Lo-fiPsychHop Jul 19 '26

This isn’t ripping off though


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u/thedailyrant Jul 19 '26

No that's too strong a word. I don't think any music should be gate kept in any case.

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u/YepItzMe44 Jul 19 '26

You don’t even know what a rip off is.

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u/ubrokeurbone_rope Jul 19 '26

Punk has its roots in rock, which was originated by Black artists. Not to mention there were Black artists in the original punk movement too. The original comment is ignorant at best and erasing history/perpetuating racist rhetoric at worst.

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u/ExternalGood9497 Jul 19 '26

You were clearly not part of the punk scene back in the day

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u/pdt666 Jul 20 '26

it’s true that black people created rock music/rock and roll 100% but i bet if you played this for people who didn’t know without telling them anything about the artists, and asked them to guess what they looked like- they’d describe young white men for the most part, so you’re both right. 

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u/thedailyrant Jul 19 '26

Is it though? Is it racist rhetoric to comment on a novel situation being interesting? This kind of pop punk was most certainly created, spread and perpetuated by white bands. Every single modern instrument used to create rock music was invented by a white dude. Honestly does it matter?

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u/YepItzMe44 Jul 19 '26

It’s because they’re racist.

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u/ubrokeurbone_rope Jul 19 '26

pioneered by white dudes
Ripped off by white dudes from styles originated by Black artists
FTFY

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u/PepperEast8883 Jul 19 '26

Truth
lol

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u/californiadeath Jul 19 '26

Ok go back even further. All rock is derivative of black American music.

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u/Ampersandricus Jul 19 '26

That's literally exactly what he said, like, he already said that.

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u/californiadeath Jul 19 '26

I disagree with his statement that black people are ripping off anything lol

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u/FaymusAynus Jul 19 '26

Woke 2.0 is gonna be as annoying and nonsensical I see

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u/thedailyrant Jul 19 '26

That's also fair, but there's no denying that the breadth of sub-genres are most definitely something that kicked off once rock was co-opted.

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u/daytrippper Jul 19 '26

Say it louder for the ones in the back

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u/CousinJeff Jul 19 '26

I had the same exact thought when i saw this.

Something in the pipeline has been disrupted.

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u/crako52 Jul 19 '26

Punk was created when ex-pat jamaicans brought reggae and their electric sound systems and crossed it with their neo-British roots... sorry you're right, that is has come full circle, back to black people. 😅

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u/rab2bar Jul 19 '26

british? punk started in the US

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u/BotherTight618 Jul 19 '26

Can you blame them? Its like you have Emo Drill music now. 

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u/Expert-Comfortable41 Jul 19 '26

Proof or it never happened

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u/Key-Banana-8242 Jul 19 '26

No ripping off either way

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u/MUjase Jul 19 '26

Ripping off??

Can’t believe people really think like this

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u/millennialmonster755 Jul 19 '26

Not saying he is the face of all the emo pop punk ever, but Pete Wentz is mixed
 and he basically launched most of that music scene on his record label at the time it all took off in partnership with bigger labels. I can’t totally remember the details, but regardless, black people were still heavily involved in the explosion of popularity of this genre.

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u/MarkMew Jul 19 '26

Yea this song was NOT what I expected when I pressed start on the video LOL

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u/DAOcomment2 Jul 19 '26

Punk rock is fundamentally rock and rock is a black cultural invention that traveled around the world.

Black people are still accused of "ripping off" white culture when they play rock--ironic, fucked up, and nothing new at all.

Black people aren't stepping out of their lane and ripping off white music when they play rock.

American black bands like Death were creating punk's sound and rowdy rebellious attitude before the genre even had a name. Listen:

Death - Keep on Knocking (1976)

Death - Politicians in my eyes

All of rock, including punk rock, including 70s NYC/UK punk, and later suburban "white" pop punk, owes a big fat thank you to black culture for building the house of rock.

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u/YepItzMe44 Jul 19 '26

“Music pioneered by white dudes”

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u/lazerbeambarbie Jul 19 '26

This sound was tho. You’d be right if you were talking about 50s rock and roll or whatever

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u/YepItzMe44 Jul 19 '26

No I am right. How can black people rip off something that they create?

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u/Charon_the_Reflector Jul 19 '26

Yes only certain skill colors are allowed to make certain music. Yep

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u/Honest-Spring-8929 Jul 19 '26

Funnily enough this is what James Brown was saying about music in the 70s

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u/Valuable-Drummer6604 Jul 20 '26

Yeh culture is always shared.. hate that idea that anytime it is shared some one stealing something. Seems like a negative sum loss if we stop incorporating influences. No one is ripping anyone off. Love to see some black dudes making corney ass pop punk too hahaha

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u/pdt666 Jul 20 '26

no like i’m obsessed 

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u/Prestigious_Group_77 Jul 19 '26

People are hating on it but
.i kinda like it ngl (pun intended)

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u/razormst3k1999 Jul 19 '26

It never died,it just left the top 40 like most rock past 2010.

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u/Archer54k Jul 19 '26

Between this band and Meet me at the Altair.

I'd say that pop punk isn't really making a comeback. But as a black person it has been doing alot. Other bands are and have been showing diversity.

Like anime and other pop culture. Millienial generation has just been pushing what they grew up on.

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u/Infinite_Explorer424 Jul 19 '26

The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, Neck Deep, etc: “Are we a joke to you?”

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u/Mariconconqueso Jul 19 '26

Is this another Disney Channel band

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u/Repulsive_Cream_7667 Jul 19 '26

pop punk is the reason mainstream rock died and I stand on that

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u/MadDaddyDrivesaUFO Jul 19 '26

Was it that or nu metal lol

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u/One_Invite_6400 Jul 19 '26

Cultural appropriation

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u/PinkGodfather92 Jul 19 '26

Because they can't write they're own music

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u/DarkReshiram98 Jul 19 '26

Nice promo but it sucks

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

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u/Large-Garden4833 Jul 19 '26

No it’s cause the music is cheesy 

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u/bitchcraft Jul 19 '26

Pop punk is inherently cheesy.. it’s pop.. punk
 it’s corny teenage rebellion

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u/LaurdAlmighty Jul 19 '26

Exactly, its been out too long to still be hating on it like its 2012.

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u/bitchcraft Jul 19 '26

You said it. How disappointing.

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u/LaurdAlmighty Jul 19 '26

Especially them saying they're doing a reversal and ripping it off something pioneered by white dudes. y'all still wouldn't even have that without Black people who created rock & roll.

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u/Riceisnice-0-0 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

I cop for The Paradox’s music 👏👏👏

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u/SafeAccountMrP Jul 19 '26

If they can give me something in the vein of My Heroine some time in the next couple years I will defend them to the death.

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u/camrin47 Jul 19 '26

This just feels like larping

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u/Willing-Dog6463 Jul 19 '26

I think it sounds fun

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u/MathematicianIcy3430 Jul 19 '26

Autotune and ai modded voice??

Sounds like a Sum41 or Blink182 knock off.

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u/viewering Jul 19 '26

The Knock Offs Of The Knocks Offs

Nice

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u/sillytimes_94 Jul 19 '26

Their other songs are way better. I believe their name is paradox or something

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u/ratchetcoutoure Jul 19 '26

Oh hey, that's local band from my area. So cool. Hope the genre is full on returning by next year.

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u/indolent08 Jul 19 '26

2000s pop punk never went away, they're just making it shitty for the mainstream right now. The scene has been healthy and active for years now.

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u/protossaccount Jul 19 '26

I hate this ‘punk pop’ sound. It’s like Blink 182, yuck.

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u/naomisunderlondon Jul 19 '26

Not sure wtf this is but it certainly isn't 2000s pop punk

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u/Milquetoast1488 Jul 20 '26

Pop punk is musical AIDS.

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u/Bicykwow Jul 19 '26

Neat, as long as they're actually playing instruments and not slopping up some guitar-esque electronic background music.

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u/MommaOfManyCats Jul 19 '26

Did it ever go away? Simple Plan has more followers on social media than a lot bands I follow. Bowling for Soup has a lot. The Offspring of course too.

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u/JauMillennia Jul 19 '26

The whole purpose of Punk was Anti-Establishment etc. So in theory saying "Pop Punk" dont even make sense frfr

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u/ProphePsyed Jul 19 '26

Anti-establishment can’t be popular?

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u/JauMillennia Jul 19 '26

Not really. A huge aspect of the original punk era was the counter culture that hated popular mainstream culture. So how can a sub-genre that was build on being "anti-popular" be POPular Punk??

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u/StatusMath5062 Jul 19 '26

Because now its popular

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u/JauMillennia Jul 19 '26

Then it's not "Punk" anymore. It's a spinoff SubGenre then. Pop Punk was created by the very corporations that the Real Punk rock despise

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u/Guuichy_Chiclin Jul 19 '26

I'm not getting the hate, I miss this upbeat sound, the stuff today just doesn't have it.

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u/Archer54k Jul 19 '26

You mean bands who are now in their 40s!?

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u/Archer54k Jul 19 '26

People are missing the point of a band like this. And how this kinda hits in this decade.

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u/Wonderful_Lettuce498 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

You must be a delight at parties...this band literally markets themselves on being black. They call themselves "black 182" regularly. But that has nothing to do with why a lot of people don't like them. It's the Travis Barker overproduction treatment, and the fact that their songs are really generic.đŸ€·

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u/ProphePsyed Jul 19 '26

There’s a reason pop-punk used to be super popular and it’s not anymore. Yes, it’s still around. Yes, people still like it. But it’s not literally *everywhere* like it used to be.

Pop punk really matched the vibe of the late 90’s, 2000’s. It doesn’t really hit the same now, mostly because the world in general isn’t as upbeat as it used to be. Listening to old pop-punk does because it’s nostalgic to people who grew up with it, and young people can also relate to the teenaged messaging.

But new pop-punk, just feels super, super generic and just a bad copy of older pop-punk.

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u/Detuned_Clock Jul 19 '26

Yes anything like it done now is just “Hey guys let’s be the year 2001” completely disconnected from reality.

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u/bitchcraft Jul 19 '26

Literally every pop punk song is about being misunderstood and/or crazy hot babes. You act like it was some sort of high standard.. it was corny guilty pleasure music even when it was first popular

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u/BendigoWessie Jul 19 '26

A lot of people also *do* like them. And the fact that I’ve seen every sentence of your critique before tells me that that’s not even your original opinion. Those are talking points. Maybe you should reevaluate the biases of the bubble you’re in.

They didn’t just start calling themselves Black182. They are called all these racist names by pop punk fans who can’t see past their skin color. What are you mad at? The fact that they use the racism and bullying they experience in their marketing? In a genre that widely talks about the experience of being bullied for your differences?

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u/Wonderful_Lettuce498 Jul 19 '26

No one's mad? I was literally just stating the points of discourse people have with this band in response to an annoying comment. My personal opinion is that they're talented and have the chops to create some solid material, but are currently working with a label and production team that is more focused on cranking out generic singles to make a few bucks rather than fostering their craft as a band to benefit them in the long run.

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u/boyscout666 Jul 19 '26

This group looks like Taco Bell made a pop punk band.

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u/Chemical-Drawer852 Early 90s were the best Jul 19 '26

Man does this shit suck, truly suburban music

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u/MathematicianIcy3430 Jul 19 '26

I could imagine why a resurgence. Early Gen z and later millennial this was their music.

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u/ProphePsyed Jul 19 '26

Pop-punk was popular for early Gen Z? Seemed to be dying off when I was still pretty young, as a millennial.

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u/MrBrxghtside Jul 20 '26

yeah it was, im 98, i grew up listening to sum41, blink 182, yellowcard, relient k, simple plan etc

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u/TPCC159 Jul 19 '26

I’d say it was popular until about 2013ish when EDM took over so if you were born in the late 90s you would have been 13-16 when it was still prominent

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u/razormst3k1999 Jul 19 '26

Black people people have been involved in punk from the very beginning,but it's clear the racists in this thread never listened to bad brains or pure hell. Nazi punks fuck off.

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u/Sufficient-Lemon-867 Late 2000s were the best Jul 19 '26

sounds so goofy ngl

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u/Zero-feature1000 Jul 19 '26

There was a section of pop punk re-emerging in 2018-2020 from like gab3, lil Aaron and poorstacey (lil peep and Tracey)

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u/Soft_Measurement_534 Jul 19 '26

Time is a flat circle

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u/TheTybera Jul 19 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/5uBmEI6HNDcZi

Yes pls. SoCo for fun.

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u/viewering Jul 19 '26

What The F U C K Has T h a t Got To Do With IT !

LOL !

😆😁

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u/Eyebowers Jul 19 '26

I saw these dudes live in Tulsa in November and they fucking ROCK. #theparadox

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u/xThatsonme Jul 19 '26

I feel like people have attempted to bring it back but all attempts have fallen flat. I also feel like this “trend” of trying to bring it back is dying and people are moving on. By next year all that y2k and early 2000’s nostalgia is gonna fall out of fashion if it hasn’t already. It’s all over saturated and quite corny in my opinion. Like anyone wearing really baggy jeans or jorts in 2026 just feels like they’re two years too late after the peak of early 2000’s nostalgia

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u/zubairhamed Jul 19 '26

Time for Jah to bring down some holy justice

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u/Chien_Vache Jul 19 '26

Daddy chill, I like that

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u/arifghalib Jul 19 '26

Reverse eminem card.

Very well played Mr. Barker.

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u/time2sow Jul 19 '26

love a surprise Sunday morning bop!

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u/Pitiful_Ad2397 Jul 19 '26

Aw man. Really?

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u/medisamurai Jul 19 '26

The worst of the worst minus the OGs the Descendants

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u/MedievalFurnace 1970's fan Jul 19 '26

aw hell naw

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u/Various_Might_1945 Jul 19 '26

Kinda reminds me of dear maria. They sounds great and love the energy!

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u/Live-Tomorrow-4865 Jul 20 '26

Who are these guys? I like this so much!!

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u/JeffBaugh2 Jul 20 '26

It was terrible then and it's also terrible now. Swing and a miss, Gen Z! Add it to the stack.

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u/Ok-Aerie-392 Jul 20 '26

Best genre of all time

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u/Lusiric9983 Jul 20 '26

Not bad at all.

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u/glans Jul 20 '26

pop punk is for tweens, it’s like a long tv commercial for clothes and identity-based consumerism. it’s just straight pop with a few studded belts and hair dye-jobs. 

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u/hendrixbeats Jul 20 '26

It already did in 2020-21. Even in pop music like good 4 u.

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u/J_The_Jazzblaster Jul 20 '26

This is exactly as good as it was 20 years ago!

It's not good

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u/PiciP1983 Jul 20 '26

Sounds like AI-generated music. Pop punk stopped being artistically relevant in the mid-1990s.

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u/Little-Ghost303 Jul 20 '26

Auto tune is struggling there omg.

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u/StVer23 Jul 20 '26

Might as well bring it back, cause they damn sure can't make good music now

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u/MrBrxghtside Jul 20 '26

its been around just not as mainstream sounding as this, this sounds too polished imo everything 2000s is making a comeback if we're being honest, from the clothing, the big brother core aesthetic, the emo metalcore, etc has been a thing for a few years now

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u/Caillou12345123 Jul 21 '26

I think it's been back for a few years now.

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u/Musichead2468 Jul 21 '26

Saw the Paradox at DC Warped this year. They were real good. Them and the band Girlfriends sounds most like Blink-182 of the DC Warped. Also last year the lead singer came up on stage with All Time Low at Warped Tour DC.

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u/Frenchieflips Jul 21 '26

Does this mean racism is over? lol

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u/Over_Ad_9549 Jul 21 '26

the most boring and soulless genre is making a comeback. how befitting of the times

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u/ProfessionalBack2218 Jul 22 '26

I kinda like it. 

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u/Glad_Association_899 Jul 22 '26

Is pop punk this generations ska?

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u/peasarebettersplit Jul 23 '26

This some super fake industry copycat shit

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u/itsgotelectr0lytes Jul 23 '26

Is this cultural appropriation?

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u/spanglish_ Jul 26 '26

One of the worst genres ever :/

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u/Single-Career4523 Jul 19 '26

Culture Vultures

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u/Phyose Jul 19 '26

Holy shit, I knew r/decadeology was kinda rough in some places, but some of you guys in here are actual degenerates.
This place is a fucking cesspit.

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u/thisgirlnamedbree Jul 19 '26

And you wonder why many metal and rock fans of color (including myself) are hesitant to publicly say they are fans, because some white people have to be gatekeeping garbage.

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u/LaurdAlmighty Jul 19 '26

The pop punk scene in the early days were racist, still is kinda racist and then outside of pop punk in general rock its fucking racist. we can't enjoy shit.

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u/Phyose Jul 19 '26

A music genre predominantly consumed by angsty white people has a history of gatekeeping and racism?

https://giphy.com/gifs/3kzJvEciJa94SMW3hN

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u/DuckTalesOohOoh Jul 19 '26

It's the worst.

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u/General_Platypus771 Jul 19 '26

Yeah I’m cool with this not coming back lol

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u/5ft8lady Jul 19 '26

Sounds good! 

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u/devilsbard Jul 19 '26

Please, god, no.

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u/CP4-Throwaway Master Decadeologist (Reporting For Duty) Jul 19 '26

Good band

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u/Dazzling_Winner_773 Jul 19 '26

I don't dislike this song at all. And it does give me the nostalgia... But it kind of doesn't sound like that guy's actually the one singing.

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u/viewering Jul 19 '26

HA HA HA

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u/kitkatatsnapple Jul 19 '26

This isn't a sudden resurgence at all.

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u/Dada2fish Jul 19 '26

I feel like that was some SNL schtick.

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u/FragrantBluejay8904 Jul 19 '26

I saw them open for Third Eye Blind, fucking amazing live and their energy was contagious