If You Hate Good Charlotte Raise Your Hand

[fallenangel]

Thing is, calling them punk is obviously wrong, but I don't see why it's so hard to simply give them a new label. Any other time a new sound comes along, it gets its own label, if only a small variation from the old one (hard rock as opposed to rock, etc.). Current pop punk sounds nothing like 70s punk at all. There's nothing similar about the two, so giving it a new label just makes sense.

There are a ton of bands that were closer to what punk really is that still adapted it to their own new style and took a new name. Hanoi Rocks isn't considered a punk band, even though they borrowed heavily from the true punk "style" (or lack of style). Gave it some lipstick and leather and a new genre was born.

So, besides just being completely insulting and incorrect to refer to the likes of Good Charlotte and Sum 41 as "punk", it's a needless issue. Even "nu metal" is widely accepted, but punk is still given the shaft by having all these hacks included in it.

Someone at MTV needs to get their "super trendy staff" to start researching a new genre name.


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