Mallpunk.
This is my new favorite word.
Where I live, there are far to many of this new subculture. Granted, it's better then all the hip-hop orphans that seem to multiple by the thousands -- much like a strain of salmonella on chicken locked in a 120-degree vehicle -- around here, but still.
All these little [and not so little] kids walking around in there Blink 182 and 'I'm Punk Rock' t-shirts.
Crazy.
I never thought I'd see the day where this supposed lifestyle was spoon-fed and greedily accepted by the masses.
Yes, yes -- any respectable punk rock kid realizes that the most of the pop-punk rot out today is MUCH more pop then punk, but to a 12 year old, how the hell can they tell the difference?
I think this calls for Big Punk Brothers or Big Punk Sisters mentoring program. Kinda like the typical Big Brother programs that are about today, but with a spin on it so that those of us in the know can open the little fuckers minds to how things really should be.
"Little Johnny -- mall bad. Not punk. Unless you are in the parking lot stealing hubcaps."
"Little Johnny -- buying your clothes from Hot Topic and Rave stores makes you a clone."
"Little Johnny -- Blink 182 is about as punk as the contents of my cats litter box."
"Little Johnny -- punk WOULD exist, even if that Warped Tour did not"
I'm just teasing a bit, as the Warped Tour allowed me to see many bands that would have been too small to tour on their own, but I think you get my point.
I've mentioned it before and I'll do so again. Being a greaser kid, I've noticed that most of our type stems from either punk roots or skin roots. People that have either grown bored or just grown out of a scene. In my case it was punk. I was a large active in our local scene for over a decade, up until a few years back, as I had started to feel a little out of place at the shows.
You know what's funny?
When I walk down the street here, I now catch a few snickers from these young mallpunk kids, comments about my 'burns or hair. "Yo Elvis, " comments similar.
I find it amusing.
Now I'm the weird one again.
Go figure.
-Scotty
This is my new favorite word.
Where I live, there are far to many of this new subculture. Granted, it's better then all the hip-hop orphans that seem to multiple by the thousands -- much like a strain of salmonella on chicken locked in a 120-degree vehicle -- around here, but still.
All these little [and not so little] kids walking around in there Blink 182 and 'I'm Punk Rock' t-shirts.
Crazy.
I never thought I'd see the day where this supposed lifestyle was spoon-fed and greedily accepted by the masses.
Yes, yes -- any respectable punk rock kid realizes that the most of the pop-punk rot out today is MUCH more pop then punk, but to a 12 year old, how the hell can they tell the difference?
I think this calls for Big Punk Brothers or Big Punk Sisters mentoring program. Kinda like the typical Big Brother programs that are about today, but with a spin on it so that those of us in the know can open the little fuckers minds to how things really should be.
"Little Johnny -- mall bad. Not punk. Unless you are in the parking lot stealing hubcaps."
"Little Johnny -- buying your clothes from Hot Topic and Rave stores makes you a clone."
"Little Johnny -- Blink 182 is about as punk as the contents of my cats litter box."
"Little Johnny -- punk WOULD exist, even if that Warped Tour did not"
I'm just teasing a bit, as the Warped Tour allowed me to see many bands that would have been too small to tour on their own, but I think you get my point.
I've mentioned it before and I'll do so again. Being a greaser kid, I've noticed that most of our type stems from either punk roots or skin roots. People that have either grown bored or just grown out of a scene. In my case it was punk. I was a large active in our local scene for over a decade, up until a few years back, as I had started to feel a little out of place at the shows.
You know what's funny?
When I walk down the street here, I now catch a few snickers from these young mallpunk kids, comments about my 'burns or hair. "Yo Elvis, " comments similar.
I find it amusing.
Now I'm the weird one again.
Go figure.
-Scotty