and still are on TRL for that matter. when a band makes a video, what do you think the reason is?
so they can be seen. to gain interest. your bands that are " punk" made videos, but they werent picked up. i gurantee both of them would "sell out to TRL" in a heartbeat. you think lagwagon doesnt "sell out". well they made merch didnt they?
fall out boy loves the fans that love their music. joe doesnt give 2 shits what you call it. but it has been named pop punk for a reason. anything with a crunchy guitar and a fast pace now a days has decended and evolved from the influential punk bands of the late 70's. so im saying that if the band has that influence in their style, then why wouldnt they be classified? isnt that how classification work. lagwagon are on MTV.com. i bet that if you would have heard fall out boy like a year ago, you would have loved them and not have been such a little bitch about this. "ewww they're on TRL! they dont deserve a classification with the word punk in it". well pennywise is "pop punk/ punk/ power pop", but since they never really made it, they are somehow anti establishment and "punk"? it wasnt their choice. they just never got famous and i bet would kill to have the quick success that FOB is having. i doubt you actually are really "anti establishment" and really have any knowladge to back up the things you say. you are probably sitting at a nice computer that you dad got for you for your birthday.
saying fall out boy isnt pop punk because they recently made it as a band really makes alot of sense. the word "pop" happens to be short for "popular" which they are. and like it or not, the power chords and loud screaming vocals, along with everything else they do to seperate themselves from generic butt rock or other music styles IS the form of music called punk.
you cant change the type of music a band plays because of how successful they are.
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