So Flabsy sent me this article I wrote a few years back, and I have to say it's as relevant today as it was then, not only that but I think it's quite good.
Sometimes my eloquence surprises even myself. This is it.
"Alright, now I could write a book about this but since I don't have time I'll just write an article. First of all take the name Pop-Punk, it as much a contradiction in terms as Christian punk, when the fuck was punk about being pop or mainstream? I see these 'punkx' around town wearing yuppie clothes! Don't get me wrong, punk aint neccessarily about style but these kids are paying like 30 or 40 bux for a hoody that they could have got for $5 at a disposal or second hand store and bought a $2 paint pen to draw the band's logo, it's ridiculous I would rather have some fan take the initiative to draw my logo than fork over a lot of cash for it. Next I read on the back of some MxPx CD "please buy this, don't record it" WHAT THE HOLY FUCK?!
I am in a band to help the scene and have a good time, Punk was neverabout profit or money, with this attitude it should be called 'capitalist punk' (hey that name doesn't make me want to kill someone nearly as much) oh well, what should you expect a christian band to do but ask for your money? The Dead Kennedy's left the B-side of one of their tapes blank - encourageing people to tape music because it hinders big record companies, but of course that was 20 years ago, why would any pop-punx know about music back then - they don't even know punk was around back then.
Has anyone heard about this emo crap? I'm not even going to grace it with a derogatory comment other than an actually emo fan once described it to me as "mellow, like Foo Fighters mixed with punk" - need I say more? Then there is the content. From all the pop-punk I've heard I can tell you 75% of the time they are whining about girls. Now back in the day the words punk and hardcore were interchangeable, but how is whining about women punk?
That's what corporate music is all about. Puk was started as an activist revolution, but the only activism these fucks do is stupid-arse shit to give them a good public image, like all the PC freaks who are so concerned with everyone being PC to a fuckin T that they don't see the actual shit piling up around them. I'm talking about Police Brutality, Government control, Corporate Greed, etc, etc - the shit that punk was meant to combat in the first place.
Lastly, what is with all hypocrites who say they're in a punk band but won't support punk or act punk, shit like "Smashing your gear aint cool man, that's not what punk is about" and dumb-'punkers' who say things like "You need to take a more serious attittude to your band if you want to get anywhere" and "Grow up".
Well fuck you man, I'll do what the cunt I want because it's MY band and you're just a hypocrite sell-out piece of shit. You say I need to "commercialize to an extent to get somewhere"?
BULLFUCK I do, all the big cult bands that still have RESPECT did NOT compromise. Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, Pantera, Nirvana... To all these, and I'm sure they know who I'm talking about, a nice big fingered salute from Stixx, Austin and I. That is all I can be bothered writing, yes I'm a hypocrite and have bought band shirts. But I "percieve myself as worthless".
Well, have a good one ladies.
Pablo (Slavegrinder) :p"