Pop Punk

Pop punk is one of the basic subgenres of punk rock, characterized by a mixture of principles and instrumental section of typical punk rock with soft pop melodies and pop music techniques (as well as other “light” genres). Having appeared along with punk rock, pop-punk experienced a “new birth” and the largest (for punk rock in general) commercial success in the 90s.

History

The first pop-punks are the first punk rockers - the Ramones. For some of their songs, especially the early ones, the entertainment orientation, the absence of social problems and the general positive mood, which is so uncharacteristic for “dark” punk genres that appeared on the brink of 80s (such as hardcore and Oi!), were already characteristic. The very first "full-fledged" pop punk band became Buzzcocks, who managed to achieve a very light sound, combining the guitar pressure and air melodies characteristic of punk rock, compared to the rather brutal and unusual arrangement of the unprepared listener. based on pop rock and bubblegum pop 1960s.


In parallel with the Buzzcocks and other light pop-punk teams in England, the movement of the revivals of the mods subculture, mod-river, began to develop. The leaders of this direction, The Jam, and other groups of the genre combined the melodism of the first-wave mods (The Who and The Kinks), while maintaining the rigidity of their presentation and making it heavier with punk-rock elements. Parallel to this, related pop-punk genres appear - power-pop (new wave groups like The Knack), ska of the second wave (Madness, The Specials). Also a clear influence on the genre had Elvis Costello, who played light music at the junction of punk and power pop.

In the 80s Operation Ivy (and a little earlier - the little-known Serious Drinking, not counting Clash) crossed punk with ska. On the basis of ska-punk, initially still close to hardcore hardcore, lighter groups like NOFX began to appear, on the basis of which the most successful wave of pop-punk began to form. The work of Bad Religion also had a key influence on this subgenre.

Commercial success in 1992-1994. The groups Green Day, The Offspring and Rancid (of the three main pop-punk groups of the 90s) created a new wave of pop-punk. Her followers at the end of the decade were such groups as Sum 41, Blink 182 and Good Charlotte. In the 90s, such cult groups as New Found Glory, MxPx, Simple Plan, Zebrahead appeared.

Beginning in the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, a current called Easycore appears, which is a fusion of pop punk and hardcore. Representatives of this style are such groups as Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Set Your Goals and Four Year Strong.

Emo pop

Emo-pop (also known as emo-pop-punk, emo-punk, post-emo and the third wave of emo) is a sub-genre of pop-punk and pop-rock, located at the junction of pop-punk with emo.

Musical characteristic

AllMusic columnist described the emo-pop, as a mixture of "youthful despair with a brilliant production of" appealing to the general public using the "soaring melodies, rhythmic guitars and theme songs, affecting growing up, relationships, and a broken heart." In the opinion of the project, this fusion of pop punk and emo is mainly attractive to teenage audiences.

Paul Leicester of the British newspaper The Guardian called emo pop crossover between "sugary boy band pop" and emo.

History of the genre

Emo bands like The Wrens, Weezer, Sense Field and Jawbreaker laid the foundations for the formation of an emo pop. In 1999, The Get Up Kids from Kansas City released one of the biggest albums in the history of the genre, called Something to Write Home About. They also had an impact on the new emo pop group Fall Out Boy, and among other groups that influenced her, New Found Glory, Green Day, Screeching Weasel, Lifetime, Earth Crisis, Gorilla Biscuits and The Ramones can be noted. Another influential band for emo pop is Blink-182. A new generation of fans of pop-punk, emo pop and alternative rock called their sound “extremely influential,” and James Montgomery wrote for MTV that “without them there would be no Fall Out Boy, no Paramore, no Fueled by Ramen.” He also noted that Blink-182 helped fame such groups as Jimmy Eat World, Motion City Soundtrack, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New and New Found Glory. Emo / punk rock band Jawbreaker influenced Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance.

Emo-pop appeared in the mid-1990s, thanks to the bands Jimmy Eat World, The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring, The Starting Line, Saves the Day and The Movielife. Jimmy Eat World created an early emo pop sound on their albums Static Prevails (1996) and Clarity (1999), the last of which had a major impact on modern emo. In the late 1990s, Emo Pop achieved a slight independent success. The Get Up Kids sold more than 15,000 copies of their debut album Four Minute Mile in 1997 before they signed to Vagrant Records, which began to push the band further, sending them on tour to play with more famous bands like Weezer.

According to the reviewer AllMusic, real commercial success, thanks to which he got into the mainstream, came to the emo pop in 2001, when Jimmy Eat World released their fourth album Bleed American. The single "The Middle" became an international hit, hit the world charts, in particular, it made its way to the top-5 in the 5 Billboard charts, and in the US Alternative Songs charts it ranked highest.

With the growing popularity of the genre, record label Fueled by Ramen became the center of the movement, releasing platinum bestsellers from bands such as Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco and Paramore. Two regional scenes were formed: in Florida, led by Fueled by Ramen, and in the mid-west, led by Pete Wentz, bassist for Fall Out Boy. The mid-west scene took the lead after Fall Out Boy released the single in 2005 with the song “Sugar, We're Goin Down”, rising 8th on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and receiving extensive radio support. In 2008, Cash Cash released the album Take It to the Floor, which AllMusic described as “final approval of empty-headed, brilliant, free emo pop”. In the same year, the British band You Me at Six debuted with the album Take Off Your Colors, which John O'Brien from AllMusic called "the literal guide to emo ass for dummies." In the UK, the album received a gold certificate.

In the early 2010s, the popularity of the emo pop went into decline. Many emo pop groups remain popular to this day, however Panic! at the Disco, Cash Cash, Paramore and Fall Out Boy decided to leave emo pop and change their style.