• nifty@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I mean it’s a dead giveaway at the first bullet, but I totally get the knee jerk reaction because there were people who said Green day had “lost their way”.

    That said, always thought Green Day was everything wrong with punk because of how pop they were when they first started. To me they’re still pretty pop. They’re like the hot topic of punk.

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      10 months ago

      Green Day is “mainstream punk.” Which is as damning a description of a punk band as you can probably get without calling them cryptofascist.

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      10 months ago

      Also the unconditional support for military (especially veterans) is a cultural point that many otherwise OK people have big trouble with…