• Ech@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    The least punk thing is to gatekeep the genre.

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      3 months ago

      classifying in genres is by definition gatekeeping. somewhere you have to draw a line between punk and everything else, otherwise the term punk loses all meaning.

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      3 months ago

      Classifying them pop rock would be gatekeeping. I still classified them within the punk genre and still agreed with their statement of punk.

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      3 months ago

      People have been saying Green Day aren’t punk since Dookie. That’s always been a thing with punk. Once you leave the underground clubs of NYC, you’re pop.