Pseudo Punk
June 25th, 2007 . by contemptster
The Sex who? Piss-tols? Never heard of them. Punk music isn’t about rage, anarchy, politics, or youthful expression. It’s about cute boys with spiky hair and arm bands playing music you can dance to. Punk music is about 20-year-old guys with meaningless sleeve tattoos and t-shirts featuring bands I’ve never heard of. The Buzzcocks, that’s a silly name. Most importantly, punk rock is about changing your hair color, lip rings, and, best of all, shopping at Hot Topic. Oh, there’s my mom’s Benz. Gotta run.
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Why do you even bother wasting time worrying about and writing about who or what is punk, and how the image has been misrepresented by current generations? First of all, it’s JUST AN IMAGE. Secondaly, you can’t change what it’s become. Society evolved. Old-school punk was fueled by kids who actually felt true feelings, wanted things to change and they knew how, and they had passion. Young people today don’t have any passion period. We have superficial/materialistic wants. We’re complacent, docile, and comfortable with the materialistic lifestyles we’ve been bread into. Unfortunately for you, punk doesn’t have the same meaning as it used to because societies’ punk-rock kids don’t have the same needs they used to. Fact: The only need kids have these days is to be accepted and liked, and to look cool, and have better shit than someone else. So does blogging about it make you punk? Does it fill you with a sense of punk-pride because you can point out other peoples materialism & superficiality? It shouldn’t, because it just means society left you behind in its evolution. Express what you want, how you want, when you want. You don’t have to be punk to express yourself, because your expression is subjective to YOU. If you do need to be punk to do that, then you’re no better than the rest. Stop worrying about how punk you are, and others aren’t. Get on with your life and make something of yourself, be who you are, listen to what you want. But don’t let your tastes dictate the person you are or your beliefs, it’s wasteful. Listening to and enjoying punk music doesn’t mean you have to run around underneath society trying to change everyones ideals, wearing ripped jeans. Just learn to function in society as best you can, and be true to yourself. To hell with what anyone else does with whatever ideals. Don’t waste your time on what’s happening to your favorite way of looking at the world. Why be punk? Just be a person with conviction, it’s far more respectable. Punk became what it became because it’s disgusting and fake, even when kids were rambuncious to get their point across. All it ever did was make them look like shitty punk rock kids, causing a ruckus. Now they just be shitty punk rock kids with “good fashion sense.” I could go back and forth in my head with this, but my main points were already said.. The whole idea of punk is dead, the music is dead, the fans are dead. punk did what it had to do in the 70’s to pave the way for now, and we don’t need it anymore. Now we need real people with real ideals, not fueled by a style of music & mohawks. We need a group of radical intellects to change the world. not a bunch of angry punk kids who listen to shit music.
Prophet, learn to spell. You’re gay.
Prophet, just curious, why did you say: “Why do you even bother wasting time worrying about and writing about …” and then go on to write 500 words about the same thing?
Ah well…punk is misunderstood nowadays. You ask them about Black Flag..they tell you no, people from the Black Parade are the real deal.
hey! So you see all these pseudo-punks right? Dont forget about the ones who arent in the limelight. I mean, it’s not that punk TURNED into this. Things that are punk now are things that these people and a lot of people wouldnt call punk, theres a lot of good life changing underground music out there.
Yes i admit that these pseudo-punkers anger me, but hey, it dont bother with it. Why you say? because i dont own punk, and neither do you or anyone else, and thats why it will never die.
Not all punkers are in pissing contests to show how ‘punk’ they are. There many of them who arent saying much, living there lives.
Im in no way condoning these pseudo-punkers, and i am in no way condoning this ‘right of passage’ article or the previous comment.
I DONT need to here about pseudo punkers, and I DONT need to hear that i have no passion, and I DONT need to hear people putting me in a goddamn categoriy that i was never in.
No i dont have a mowhawk, no i dont have ripped jeans, no i dont have any of that stereotyped bullshit. YES i do have every descendants album, YES my favourite band is blackflag, and YES the MC5 were awesome.
Im mean if these people bother you shut off the TV?!?! i never had the TV on and im doin just fine, and remember theres a lot of hard to find underground music today, YES there is a good underground scene. and im not talkin about this new new wave thing.(stale wave) just look, and you will find, (like XbXrX)
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For those who want more on annoying “punks” like Ahshley Simpson and Pete Wentz check out this link on gawker:
http://gawker.com/news/keeping-up-with-the-kids/pete-wentz-has-730-hoodies-272477.php
Punk? The Exploited are punk! Punk as FUCK!
halarious.
Fucking poser scum.
i’d be willing to put money on the fact that this bitch doesn’t even play guitar, even though she is posing with one. uuuggggh. she is so NOT badass or punk, and those legwarmers are not helping her case.
anyway, nice blog contempy. keep ‘em comin!
Where do “hipsters” fit in with all of this?
Geoff-
This should clear things up:
http://contemptster.com/everyday-assholes/hipster/
Most applicable definitions of “Punk” taken from google’s web definition:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=oED&defl=en&q=define:Punk&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
1. Subversive street culture movement that originated in London in the mid-1970s. Embracing art, music and fashion, followers of Punk were recognizable by their aggressive visual appearance and anarchic behavior.
2. Raucous, aggressive music, designed to shock. At its height in the 70s.
And it’s nice of everyone to judge someone from a single picture really. Did she ever write that she plays guitar, or listen to all those albums? No, she did not, and as far as I know the point of her post is to let people know her interpretation of “Punk”. And the only thing that you can really point out by looking at that picture is that she is beautiful really.