Where have all the Pop Punk kids gone? They’re off being sad. Sad is the new happy. Remember when all the EZcore bros evolved into Tr00 Pop Punk bros and said bye bye to the breakdowns? I remember it like it was just yesterday. Well things are progressing into an even tr00er state. Giant water waves of tr00ness are ravaging the nation at a high magnitude, creating a tr00nami, destroying anything fun that stands in it’s path. All of the ex-EZcore Tr00 Pop Punk bros are evolving into Soft Grunge bros at an alarming rate. What is Soft Grunge, you ask?
Remember when the singer of Citizen used to be all like…
Now he’s all like…
keep trying to run from your EZcore past, Matthew, you can’t hide forever
or what about when Soft Grunge heavyweights Basement (aka the British Citizen, or Britizen) were confronted about their old EZcore band?
Excuses, excuses… why are Soft Grunge bros always filled with excuses?
Here is an accurate chart of how the scene has evolved and where it’s potentially heading…
Basically what we’re witnessing now is a tr00 version of what happened in the early-mid 2000′s. The Mallpunk/Americanpiecore of the early 2000′s was killed off by the faux-Emo/Crycore of the mid 2000′s. Very much in the same way that the Tr00 Pop Punk of the early 2010′s is being overthrown by the Soft Grunge movement of today. Tr00 Emo jockage is at an all time high too. I remember my friend, who was into all these weird bands that no one cared about at the time, was one of the 7 people who was stoked for the new Snowing album to come out back in like 2009. Now them, along with many other twinkly Emo bands (Dads, You Blew It!, that band with the obnoxiously long name) are steadily seeing increasing amounts of jockage.
Meanwhile Mike Kinsella from American Football ponders all the deep philosophical questions like…
For all those hoping that the worst of the tr00bonic plague was over… well I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it seems as if it’s only just begun. All of the high profile Pop Punk bands are at a major risk of going full-on Soft Grunge or Tr00 Emo as soon as this year even. Meanwhile, there are more and more local bands everywhere who are emulating the Title Fight/Citizen/Basement sound as opposed to The Wonder Years/The Story So Far/Man Overboard. And for all of those who are going to leave comments like “I don’t notice any of this stuff happening”, well maybe that’s because this post is THAT advanced. Try reading this in a year’s time and see if what I’m saying has come true.
brb upping my dose of this
to prepare myself for this
Do u foresee the Soft Grunge takeover? Can Soft Grunge and Pop Punk co-exist in harmony? Am I just an old who is out of touch with contemporary youth culture bcuz all of this stuff already happened like 10 months ago?