![]() Partly it’s because it never occurs to you whether someone might need or want a map to your hometown. Partly it’s because – even if Green Day’s ‘Basket Case’ is as old as I am – pop punk still feels like a baby of a genre, so that it kind of takes me by surprise that it has history enough to be worth explaining. Partly this is because discussing pop punk’s relationship to punk itself is usually aimed at dismissing pop punk as punk’s poser kid brother, and the founding concept of this series is taking pop punk seriously when no-one else will. ![]() The history of pop punk is something this series frequently gestures towards but has never really sketched out in any detail. Previously, Ciara wrote about listening to ‘December’ by Neck Deep on repeat and thinking about ex-friends. ![]() This article is part of In Defense of the Genre, a series of critical and personal essays in praise of pop punk. ![]()
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