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Yup. Completely agree. It's so sad opioid addictions have taken out the some of the budding stars of this new wave. Young kids that have barely had a chance to implement any corrective action before they're snuffed out.

 

Mod sun has a ton of the most cringe-inducing fans around here. Can’t stand him

 

Kenny definitely is the best one so far from this grouping. Pretty standard record, but so so catchy and more importantly fun.

 

He's an intense personality no doubt. But he can write a hook and he's one of the more talented musicians among his peers--he drummed for Four Letter Lie and Scary Kids Scaring Kids. Sounded great on Kimmell.

 

To be clear, I'm not trying to downplay any amount of "fun" so sorry if that came off that way, I totally get it being fun. My main point is that it's the watered down version of what once was, I am still waiting for a new wave that's huge and exciting again. probably will be waiting forever, but oh well

 

There's some really cool innovation going on to my ear! Just as an example, have you ever heard anything quite like My Ex's Best Friend by MGK? It's a pretty palatable, seamless blend of pop punk and trap elements--not to mention quite the earworm. Has a chorus that hits pretty hard without being a super crashy, stereotypical pop punk chorus. Avoids having a super full cluttered and compressed mix, and opts for the more modern approach of giving each layer on the song room to breath. To me, that's expanding and building on the classic pop punk formula from 10 years+ ago.

Anyway, I just love this new stuff. Think it's really cool the emo torch is being passed on to the next generation and they're actually into it. Pretty neat imo!

 

we're just not gonna see eye to eye here and that's fine, I'm happy that people are enjoying it. My Ex's song really feels like nothing new except "watered down blink 182 plus a guest verse," just sounds incredibly paint-by-numbers to me and blackbear is like grating my ears, so unenjoyable

 

where can i stab myself in the ears?

 

hahaha

 

I also think we may be overestimating the old wave of pop punk most of us grew up on. Outside of Blink 182 and FOB, I do t know exactly how unique each band was. As much as I love some of those bands, listening back now.. some definitely sound a bit dated.

 

I don't know what you're talking about--We the Kings have aged fantastically!

 

I truly believe that bands like Motion City Soundtrack were doing something different and unique. No one else was like Gatsbys American Dream, no one has been since then either. Paramore stand alone. Dashboard Confessional had their own corner of the genre, again no one did what they did at that level. The musicianship on Cartel's Chroma is unmatched. Q+A? come on....

It was obviously a flash-in-the-pan scenario for the time, when it was the biggest it ever was and everyone was pushing the boundaries in many different directions, I just miss it.

 

I love Kenny, everything else from the Travis pop punk mill is definitely solid but any of those songs are interchangeable with the other guys that he's worked with basically. Kenny is the only one I'm excited to hear what he does next. I've gotten pretty sick of MGK's vocals. I burned out on that record even before those terrible comments of his resurfaced

 

A lot of the MGK rise was also because of the initial "OMG a rapper is doing pop punk!!!" and tapping into nostalgia w/Travis, and really kinda starting a new wave. I understand the WHY of it all, but yeah... not really all that exciting

 

Kenny’s voice is dope and I wouldn’t call his music watered down at all: it’s very fast and very well produced and the songs are good

 

This entire wave of "Popular Pop Punk" can be traced back to MGK dissing Eminem so everyone thank Marshall for this

 

The MGK album sounded like someone writing their first pop punk album except they had access to professional resources and Travis Barker.

 

Kenny's album rips and i am all in on him. Smoke break is a great song.

 

the KennyHoopla EP rules.

the first MGK single was great, and so were a few other songs on the album, but he sucks so i don't listen to it anymore.

the Jxdn album sounds like MGK b-sides. there's only two songs i liked on it.

 

Have you heard the new Maggie Lindemann ep? That’s the only project I’ve liked out of this pop punk “comeback”

 

I listened to one track, but forget if I liked it. I'll circle back and check it outttt. I trust your tastes

 

This is some hilarious revisionist history of the early and most popular pop-punk years where literally every complaint was about how the bands couldn't sing and all sounded exactly the same.

I swear this is literally like reading a post from a 22 year old talking to a 14 year old in 1998.

 

Cool post Jason, great dialogue as always. ✌️

 

Time is a flat circle. Just make it any one from PunkNews.org coming over to my message board in 1999 and add a few extra slurs and it’s the literal same argument everyone made. About Blink182. About every Drive Thru band. It could be copy and pasted from my youth.

 

I'm happy to have the discussion, and plenty of what you're saying I agree with, I'm just tired of you feeling the need to make jabs and belittle me anytime you disagree with me on this site. It's exhausting.