Cassadee Pope Announces Pop Punk Return

Just out of curiousity - after reading the press release, would anybody here consider Hey Monday a "beloved pop punk band"?

 

No.

 

I thought they were fun back in the day, but I couldn't tell you what songs they had anymore at this point (but to be fair, I'm also old now). I do remember being irritated she went from Hey Monday to country singer girl though.

 

Defintion of fake.

 

That is quite a bit of writers for a "solo" pop-punk track.

 

I thought Hey Monday had a few very catchy songs and I enjoyed seeing them live when they opened for someone else I saw. I still rotate them every once in a while.

I rolled my eyes when I heard about her moving to country and stating something to the effect that she would do anything to get famous.

 

the timing of this feels like her "going back to her roots" just because there's been a resurgence of pop punk popularity. so it sounds very on brand for someone that just wants to be famous.

 

yeah, shes 100% just looking for ways to stay famous. cant wait for the Cassadee x MGK collab!!

 

She's obnoxious.

 

"Hey pop punk is cool again, wait for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."

 

This feels very forced considering the recent resurgence of pop punk in general. I'll give it a listen; Hey Monday had some cool tracks back in the day, but I have a feeling, this new track will be very generic sounding.

With all those writers, why not just get back with Hey Monday and write a new song? If she really wanted to go back to her roots, she'd get that band back together to do this project instead of doing a "solo" pop-punk tune.

 

Wow these replies are so salty. I'll hold my judgement until I actually listen to the song

 

hopefully she brings back the raccoon hair too! :)

 

She’s been moving back in this direction for years, making the announcement is a grab at headlines for sure but this is by no means the grift y’all are pretending it is

 

ITT: bunch of misogynistic weirdos showing their ass because how dare a woman re-enters their sacred rock or pop-punk spaces. Y'all need to look inward and grow up.

 

I felt they were the b-side to Paramore back in the mid to late 00s FBR roster.

Hurricane Streets and How You Love Me Now were pretty catchy.

 

We've got both ends of the spectrum in this thread now with this chronically online Tiktok user reply LOL

Looking forward to this song. Just here for the music. ✌

 

I never realized there was so much animosity towards Cassadee Pope. Thought there’d be a lot more support for her here!

My old band opened up for Hey Monday back in the day. She was delightful to hang with.

 

Unfortunately it was pretty much this exact way on AP.net back when she won The Voice

 

Is there an actual good reason why people here have this attitude towards her and think she's "fake" or whatever?

I don't find it hard to believe a young woman could grow up genuinely liking both pop punk and country, then break into one industry, and then decide to pursue the other industry when it seemed like a better fit for what she wanted (on multiple level, including finances). And, if she genuinely likes the pop punk sound but also likes having a successful career in music with a wide reach... then, yeah, a pop punk resurgence would be an attractive opportunity, lol.

(Also don't understand why she'd have to revive the band name she and her old bandmates used all those years ago to revisit the genre, or why it matters if she wants to pay professional songwriters to work with her now that that's her scene. It's not as romantic and possibly not as purely "art"-as-self-expression, but whatever. It's really not that different from writing with a band, lol.)

Truly don't have any strong feelings about her either way, and yeah I find the intersection of creativity and commerce often quite ugly. But, unless there's good reason to hate her that I don't know about... honestly, good for her? Do your thing, love that for you, wish you the best, etc.

 

I would say the exact same thing if she was a guy. Fuck off.

 

The spectrum being...? I've never listened to any of her music, but the vibe in this thread was immediately off and took me back to the worst of the ap.net days wrt the treatment of female musicians in the scene. Forgive me for expecting better of dudes in their 30s (assuming with the lame TikTok dig).

You wouldn't and my point went over your head.

You know, I'm almost sad you guys don't venture outside the Article Discussion because I'd enjoy seeing you get dunked all over the forums with rancid takes like these.

 

I would though. Her being a woman has fuck all to do with my post in the first place.

 

Hm. Yeah, I’m sure the disdain is at least a lil more nuanced than “I hate women!!!”

But, like… it’d be nice to have someone articulate a reason for this bitterness (as opposed to, say, ambivalence). Only thing I see is a vague “she’s fake,” which I think needs a citation, lol.