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Originally Posted by charlieforrest
Not really, just kinda sleeping for a while lol. ANy views on the newer pop/punk bands that doing it? Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, The STarting LIne, all those guys when they first came out were amazing, pioneering something new. I kinda feel like maybe it got trashed by bands like Boys Like Girls, what do you guys think??
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I think you're a living example of what I like to call - The Weezer Effect.
Weezer isn't the first, the most guilty, nor the last band to end up in their situation, they just happened to the first I noticed, and by far the most blatant in my youth, so they get the name.
Ultimately what everyone needs to accept and recognize, is that mainstream pop music does not, and has never, actually cared about the listener. It's all about appealing to the commercial demographic that has the largest amount of disposable income while convincing them that their tastes (and not their money) is actually culturally relevant enough to shape the current reflection of society through mainstream media.
So with every major generational shift there's a major shift in the sounds of the pop culture. It's a way for the current generation to distinguish itself from its predecessors. As a grunge kid you better believe we wanted to stand away from the cheeseballs with poofy hair and spandex making all sorts of ooOOOOoo faces while looking 'sensitive' and wailing on some power ballad. But even in the end of that style the mainstream beast still offered up a few new bands from the old style to try holding on to some of the last fans who were stuck between the major style shifts, and it happened again a few years later.
I've got a lot of friends who rank Weezer as one of the main groups from the 90s, one of the Alt-Rock mainstays and originators. I disagree. In fact, Weezer has always sounded like the little kid answer to the Smashing Pumpkins to me but whatever. I had already been taken in by the mainstream, so it's 2nd attempt to pull in more people using the same trick was going to fail on me, but it worked flawlessly on my younger friends (and some have yet to clue in still).
You're doing the exact same thing with these bands. Taking Back Sunday or Fallout Boy were not amazing or pioneering something new. They were the little kid answers to Green Day and The Offspring, which could easily be argued as the little kid answers to The Ramones and The Clash.
Like what you like and don't worry about the rest. If you want more recommendations then click the embedded clips, they're all great - and so is Op Ivy too (but that's more ska than pop-punk but still check them out).