You [the bands] are adults; no longer teenagers. The problems that the singers croon about in all their songs and albums are just dragging them down the street by their throats. Have any of them noticed that they sound the same too?
The typical pop-punk band is a heavy drumbeat and power chords. In addition to sounding the same, they must all incorporate varsity letters, crappy art and something about how depression does not affect them anymore and they want to spread this word to their "family". They always call their fanbase their families because the families they were born into stifled their creativity and emotional growth, hence why they must SCREAM their pain into the fans hearts! But it's okay because the fans understand the pain they endured, or at least they think so.
The fanbase is predominantly high school students who think they went through exactly what their god went through, but no. They're just whiny children who think that their wealthy white lifestyle is smothering and does not allow them to be themselves. Luckily their parents who have endless riches give them enough money to go purchase all the "band's" merchandise and attire themselves in clothing from Hot Topic.
Let me start with two bands which I will be analyzing. Four Year Strong and Set Your Goals.
Four Year Strong
("Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R5ysL36BGg)
The typical pop-punk crowd. Let's face it: success in many bands aren't exactly what they are trying to achieve for they are artists and therefore are just doing what they love. That is an honest reason to enter the music business, to create what you think is good and to enjoy doing such.
There are no security banisters, which is nice sometimes, and they are in a dingy local club. There are people everywhere, but that's okay because they're just feeling the music, right?
Wrong.
To like one of these bands in a school is much like a bandwagon. Why? Here's how it starts.
A group of people begin to enjoy a pop-punk band and wear their shirts all the time on a rotating cycle. People in the school start noticing them and figure they look interesting enough and give them a listen. These people end up enjoying what they hear and buy similar shirts. Befriending the original group, they attempt to recreate the 90s and be "chill" or "straightedge" when the proper term is "abstainer". This continues to grow until some bitchy girl decides to analyze their stupid antics.
Set Your Goals
("Echoes" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FicQ4hBBUV4).
Can you hear the heavy drums? It's all I can hear. A key point in being a pop-punk band is to make sure the drummer has a heart rate over one hundred the entire show. They sound exactly the same. I would list more, but my ears can only take so much eardrum shattering awfulness.
I mean, at some point, each person who ends up enjoying this same sounding garbage, ends up either like:
http://www.dobi.nu/yourscenesucks/hxc/index.htm
OR
http://www.dobi.nu/yourscenesucks/orgcore/index.htm
To bring this to a close, I bid you the final blow. The bands aren't even different and now they copy each other's merchandise style.
Example:
WELL THESE LOOK SIMILAR, DON'T THEY?
As a final author's note, I leave you a list, oh dear reader, to see that my point is proven again and again. Please (actually, please save your ears) listen to a second and then run away.
Set Your Goals
Four Year Strong
The Wonder Years
A Day To Remember
A Loss For Words
Transit
Man Overboard
Tigers Jaw
Such Gold
LOVE YOUR FRIENDS; DIE LAUGHING!!!1111!
Fuck you, seriously.
Also take note the vocal style of each singer. They all attempt to sound like their balls are being tugged on by a truck.
FIN.
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