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Where the genre derived from
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Intergration of pop within the punk culture
(Mid 1970's) Around the mid 1970's bands/artists began to mix pop style music with punk lyrics, the music was a "lighter" version of punk songs. Some lyrics became about smaller issues that no one would oppress (harshly) due to the problems being less of a significant matter. ("Themes such as teenage romance" and more of a poitive sounding outlook on the topics they wrote about. Segregating these artists from the more "hardcore scene" of punk culture. -
The Decendents
The band started writing songs using acoustic guitars without any vocals, the songs later developed into lyricless melodies with "tight guitar riffs" and a "rock-surf-pop-punk" vibe.
The environment the band was in changed the way the band wrote and the lyrics employed. A lot of coffee was said to be involved in the making of the singles which lead to showing aggression in the music produced. Creating a pop rock/pop punk sound. Reviews suggest that the bands age is prominent. -
The Ramones
The Ramones recorded and produced their first studio album "Ramones".
The band developed into what was the begining of pop punk culture. Having grown up listening to pop music but with lyrics that lean towards a more punk style. The material produced on their 5th studio album was called pop punk due to the arrangement of the songs, instruments used and the structure of the song appearing to be a lighter version of punk but sticking to "punk" lyrics. -
Hot Topic
Hot Topic helped to bring punk culture into the mainstream scene with a long chain of stores accross America. Hot Topic sells merchandise of the more alternative bands as well as styles/topics asociated with the culture. The company help promote the genre as well as having exclusive products available from the store like limited edition vinyls or band t-shirts. -
Social acceptance
The debut of mainstream attention to bands such as Green Day, Blink-182 and towards the end of the 90's New Found Glory saw society starting to recognise pop punk more and accept the culture. Bands like these started to change the way people reacted to (pop) punk lyrics and songs by creating music that became popular. Resulting in pop punk as a genre becoming more sociably accepted. -
Mainstream push
Towards the late 90's pop punk bands were more known, more and more people were buying their music and proved to become a global success. Blink-182's "Enema of the State" reached the top 10 on the US billboard chart 200 and on 5 other charts across the globe. (Pop punk culture was at its peak around this time, declining in popularity and output from well known bands after 2005. -
Decay Dance
Decay Dance, founded by Pete Wentz was to become a small record label consisting of "pop punk" bands. During this year "Panic! at the disco" signed to the label and began recording their first studio album "A Feaver you cant sweat out".
"i write sins not tragedies" was pushed into various top pop charts across America and a few single charts around the world. Proving the rise of popularity of pop punk songs. -
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The new generation
New bands began to arrive, heavily influenced by their backgrounds many added a small twist to their alums but were still catagorised as "Pop Punk". Some of these nwe artists crossed over into multiple genres. -
The All American Rejects
Around the start of a new generation of pop punk bands the single "move along" rose in the US charts but never made it in the top 40 of the UK chart. - Another example of pop punk songs/bands reaching out into the charts and becoming more popular. -
Cobra Starship
Signed to Decay Dance and Fueled By Ramen. Gabe Saporta went on a "vision Quest" in order to find himself and returned to create/write the lyrics for what was their first studio album as a band, "While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets". After creating a small demo Pete Wentz signed him to his record label of which influenced the type of music Saporta and his band created. (A mix of pop punk, synth pop and alternative rock)
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DCD2
Decay Dance was re-born into Decade 2 a little over a year after Fall Out Boy came of hiatus, signing new artists to the label including Lolo and new politics. The label accumilated a roster that had multi genres. When the label was Decay Dance, "The Academy Is" (A band that was more rock than punk at the time) produced two albums (2007 and 2008), (during the slow increase of pop punk popularity) the label signed bands asociated with different genres to keep a steady roster.
