You wanna know why punk is all of a sudden 'cool'? It's not cause your precious punk is being sold out to MTV. Its cause of punk's image as being rebellious against authority and some some jackass saying 'we'll pierce something and get pissed off, then we'll play songs about how much being a teenager sucks and sell millions records to kids who want punk in a bottle. All the people who get pissed off about simple plan cause 'they're killing punk!' don't even know what punk is. People who are truely 'punk' realize that this fake crap on MTV is completely unrelated to the punk that they love and live. I personally don't like true, old school, diy, 'punk', I like the stuff like millencolin and pennywise. The reason punk is getting sacraficed to the public is because of the appeal of the 'your can't tell me what to do.' image to people. Thats why you don't see anyone ripping off hardcore. the closest thing there is to ripping off hardcore is bands like Slipknot, and they don't even claim to be hardcore. they're 'nu-metal'. Why you ask? Simple, hardcore has the same badass image of punk, but it has an image of impenetrable brotherhood as well. MTV can't sell brotherhood and I am awful glad they can't.
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