In defense of Pretty Fly, the misogyny was the point. A parody of someone embracing the surface level characteristics of another culture.

The fact that Olivia Rodrigo and Willow Smith's latest singles sound like Paramore was not lost on me. We'll see probably more of pop punk's influence resurface in new artists I'm sure.

Blink 182's self titled is a legit masterpiece when you know the genre and the context

Pop Punk is my favorite genre. It isn't dead, new artists are still pushing the genre forward

"Adam's Song" is Mark Hoppus' own personal struggle while Blink was touring, and the hopeful ending when he decided to keep going

I can't believe I got g-noted by you and 12tone in one day

The album Warning by Green Day doesn’t get enough credit. The way they combined folk with pop punk on songs about society, hope & self-discovery will always stick with me.

As a 29 year old who teaches kids in the 11-17 bracket, it really warms my heart when they talk about their love for the music that shaped my youth. It does not warm my heart, however, when they refer to New Found Glory as 'a retro band you probably won't have heard of Miss'...

Polyphonic: “Pop punk is a movement that’s largely been ignored or forgotten by the critical press since” Travis Barker: “Hold my drum sticks”.

Funny. I was just telling my brother how we’re only a few years away from Warped Tour retrospectives and the potential canonization of that era and sound. A remastered box set of all of the Warped Tour compilations would essentially be a millennial version of Nuggets.

It started with Green Day and then I fell down the biggest rabbit hole of my life, I had my first few music tastes but now I’m completely trapped in pop-punk and I don’t want to leave. I’m 17 and the songs speak to me in a confusingly relatable way and the songs have comforted me in my hard times. Being a drummer and musician has given me a different perspective too, just being able to see how talented people are in this genre is astonishing. I will continue to force people to listen to pop-punk until the day I die.

I love this genre because it’s not light, often really sad, but it’s also relentlessly and defiantly positive. It’s what I need for healing in my darkest moments. Something not pretending to be something I’m not, something that’s acknowledging the pain and sadness while actively defying that.

Still jam to pop punk stuff often --- also your graphics are so next level!

I recently played "No Reason"by Sum 41 for a friend of mine who is a hardcore "classic rock" guy. He was blown away by how hard it hits. "This just....rocks." You're goddamn right it does. As a Canadian born in '92 everything about this video is amazing.

Hayley Williams from Paramore made me a pop punk fan. Her voice then the guys on the guitars and drums were heavenly to my 14 yr old ears. Such nostalgia watching this video. 🙏🏾

I'm a 54yr old, jaded, cynical, nihilistic professional musician and I have a sweet spot for Pop Punk, in fact my guilty pleasure is Green Day, but don't tell anyone my secret.

The Kids Aren't Alright was almost prophetic for my own friend group when I was a kid. It really hit hard back then, and listening to it now brings me right back. It's intense.

I get days where I say, while I'm scrolling through albums, "I don't feel like Dark side of the moon or Nevermind or Ok Computer", but when I don't know what to listen or what would hit the spot I always end up on pop-punk. It is the kind of music that I can literally listen to anytime, anywhere and it always boosts my energy. Those albums may not be the artistic masterpieces, but their entertainment value is off the charts. That's why when we discuss our favorite albums I always have the separate lists for these albums that don't fit amongst the likes of "In the court of the crimson king", "Loveless", "The velvet underground & Nico" etc. and most of them are pop-punk albums.

For me, The Middle by Jimmy Eats World, it came out when I was 20 years old and I fell in love with that song, skip over a few years later and I have a 15 year old daughter, whenever she is feeling down, lonely, hurt, or cast out we listen to this song together. Music heals soul

I'd also recommend Yellowcard albums. Ocean Avenue, Paper Walls, but especially Lights and Sounds which is a concept album of sorts based on their hatred for Los Angeles through top notch pop punk anthems.

American Idiot will always be my favorite album. When I first heard that album at 14, it changed my life and outlook on life. Before that, I had never had an album speak to me so much. It felt like it was written for me. Many of the feelings and struggles of the songs in American Idiot can honestly be applied to so much. If I’m feeling down, I sit down for a few hours and listen to the whole album. Homecoming as the final track sometimes gets me in tears. Got me through a lot.

I still listening to pop punk, it's still one of my favourite genres. And especially with PUP just killing it these last few years, I will never stop...

I know you will hate me for this but I feel The Clash were one of the first bands to play a 'pop / punk' style, The Ramones also. By the time Green Day & Blink182 appeared it felt like a modern version of The Clash. But you could also add Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Police, The Jam, Billy Idol, Joe Jackson, The Pretenders, UB40, Madness, the Specials as all having Pop / Punk way before it was adopted by much larger MTV bands. Personally Avril Lavigne Skater Boi is the pinnacle of the style, nothing even comes close.

My Bands I heard the most when I was in my teenage-years, were System of a Down, Slipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Fall out Boy, Metallica, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin Sometimes I go back and hear these bands and it makes me somehow sad. It makes me sad because this time was so intensiv, that it takes so much more today to get to like a band as much as I like these bands

Sum 41 doesn’t get enough credit in guitar circles for writing some AMAZING riffs! And IDC, Bleed American is a masterpiece.

The Middle is excellent and the rest of Bleed American is stuffed to the gills with absolute bangers.

im 18 and im in love with pop punk music. i discovered it when i was like 12. i quickly became a big fan of Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, blink-182 and Green Day. idk but early 00s music is just so pure, sincere and innocent

What an era....🙏 Glad to have experience pop punk of the 2000s...

Damn. All this nostalgia got me crying in my car Edit: my favorite memories in my mind were belting out literally any of the songs from Homesick with my friends. It was such a great moment in time

There's Punk Rock with pop melodies. Then there are Pop bands trying to sound Punk. I digress..."Punk Rock should mean Freedom, as sloppy as you want, as long as it's good and has passion" -Kurt Cobain

As someone born in 1996, I grew up ignoring a lot of pop punk because my dad showed me “real punk” at a young age and I was too cool for everything current when I was growing up. The past couple years I’ve been revisiting a lot of music I should have listened to in my youth and have found a lot of love for the pop punk genre. Really loved this video and the message ♥️

Born in 04 and I’ve grown up with the genre and it’s helped me through so much shit.

AFI's "Sing the Sorrow" remains one of the most important albums of all time to me personally still.

Between Polyphonic, 12Tone, and Adam Neely, Polyphonic has the best intro music.

Pop Punk quite honestly saved my life on several occasions. I would not still be here without having songs that carried me through my worst days by not letting me feel entirely alone like my depression wanted me to think. It continues to help me now at 28 and I believe it still will at 82

Amazing video. I sadly wasn't around when these pop punk bands were big (am 18) but I think this genre absolutely transcends generations. The songs not only were catchy and absolute bangers, but as you said, incredibly sincere and often times quite well-written. Not to bash on today's music but I don't feel that this sort of thing is present these days as much. Most lyrics are either non-sensical or not really about anything. Meanwhile, pop punk somehow always managed to mix goofy and fun with meaningful and relatable. Lucky we have the internet to keep listening to the "oldies" :)

As an adult this for sure made me tear up more then once.

I'm old enough to have been a teen when the *original* punk was around, and my son (now 18) recently opened my ears to bands like MCR, Panic! At The Disco etc. I'm pretty into all this stuff, and perhaps it's partly nostalgia - after all, the original punk of the 1970s paved the way for all of this to happen. People used to say "punk's not dead, it just smells a bit", but maybe we should amend that to "punk's not dead, it got re-animated with modern production techniques".

Crying while listening to "The Middle" was a rite of passage if you were a teenager in the 2000s. If you claim you haven't, you're lying

Genuinely love to see POC artists revive the genre that they never got to be apart of and doing something revolutionary with it. Willow blends her ethereal feel so well with the genre's fun loving side. And KennyHoopla has simply the greatest choruses up there with your Paramores and Fall Out Boys.

Polyphonic videos have a way of setting my whole day in motion.

I guess it's more later 2000s but I'm surprised you didn't mention all time low; they've been at it since they formed (releasing fairly consistent music from 2005 to this day), and dear maria and weightless will forever be pop punk classics!!

One of my favorite recent concert memories was at AfterShock where blink was a headliner and the last band to play. The festival also included the likes of Tool, Marilyn Manson, and Rob Zombie. I thought it a really weird placement for them but once they opened up with Miss You it all made sense. People with spikes on their shoulders, torn shirts, and face painted make up were all singing in unison and it was amazing. We all were kids listening to them in the past and that moment it all made sense right then and there.

This was so extremely well done. Taking a psychological dive into a genre that means the world to the people who grew up with it and lived it. This music has not only gotten people through difficult times, but has saved many lives in doing so, including my own. Thank you for putting this together.

Pop Punk led me to post hardcore to bands like Thrice when I was 15, whom I love to this day. They just released a new album today which shows how far they've come as musicians and I love them.

I'm 18 and I only just started listing to Blink-182 and Sum 41 this year and I love them

I absolutely love your vocabulary, how you talk, your graphics are insane and these videos just give me so much dopamine

Also I think it's a little sad that you missed the entire wave of early 2010's pop punk. Bands like The Story So Far, Neck Deep, The Wonder Years, and Knuckle Puck really pushed the genre forward in a mature way and are some of the best bands in the genre.

Pop-punk was my first musical love, and a springboard into the other protest music genres that I love today like riot grrrl, folk punk and anti-folk. I still listen to pop-punk occasionally, it brings me back to the time when it was the only thing I would listen to.

Saw Fall Out Boy this summer and a group of children were singing Sugar We’re Down on the way out, it gave me hope in the youth. Pop punk will never die 🤘

Stuck in head for days - yep "Scotty Doesn't Know" was stuck in my head most of last week!

The pop-punk movement was my entire high school experience (quite literally because I entered grade nine in 1999). For girls, it was the antithesis of the bubble gum and manufactured pop of the day - not that this is an entirely good thing. As you said, there were some misogynistic elements to the music, and if we're being fair, nothing represents the baked-in misogyny of our society than railing on another girl because they bought into the Nsync/Backstreet Boys/Britney Spears manufactured pop cycle. That being said, pop-punk proved super useful for a wanna-be bass player, and the hits are still fun.

As someone raised on punk rock, listened to pop punk through my entire life to this day 27 years later, this video means a lot to me. Thank you so much for this. It sincerely feels like you encapsulated a large part of my life into this love letter. Thank you thank you thank you.

As a millennial born in 91, I was a very precocious music snob. I remember loving Blink-182 and Good Charlotte as a 10-11 year-old and then I made a hard left turn around the age of 12. I started listening to Dead Kennedys and other OG punk bands and instantly refused to shop at Hot Topic because it peddled "corporate punk". However, these pop-punk bands formed the soundtrack to my childhood and part of me wishes I had loosened up a bit at the time. I'll never forget being genuinely excited about Panic at the Disco, though. My elitist tastes couldn't help but love that band when they broke out.

Sum 41 is the band that got me into music back in middle school during the early 2000s when I didn't know what I liked. Its great to see how much its adapted and still going strong.

1:55 I literally _just_ finished watching 12tone's analysis of "Welcome to the Black Parade" - synergy!

I'm a bit older... but I had my own version of this in the 90's. My first purchased album was Alice in Chains. I had Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. I also had early Green Day and Offspring. By the time pop/punk became mainstream (MTV TRL days), I couldn't stand it. Too pop, not enough punk for my tastes. I would catch some highlights... American Idiot, Bleed America, Black Parade, but when all of that was going on, I was on my own musical journeys. Pop/punk of the 2000's is still a void in my knowledge, but I get its impact and its influence. Thanks for the video! And yes, Worry is a great album.

Awesome. I'm a little bit older than you, and this was a big part of my soundtrack to my undergrad music school experience. I'm now a high school music teacher and earlier this week a 15 year old girl told me Black Parade is her favorite song.

Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown honestly goes so overlooked. it’s without a doubt my favorite of their albums and arguable the best and it just means so much to me. not to mention that each song is banger after banger with great messages and themes that just sound amazing. it has so much individuality to each song and is top tier green day and i wish it was more talked about like American Idiot is. honestly the title track, Before the Lobotomy, Last Night on Earth, East Jesus nowhere, Peachmaker, Restless heart syndrome, Little girl, American eulogy, masterpieces.

I feel like billy talent should have garnerd an honorable mention. They were a little late to the party but I feel like they brought a more mature feel to the genre. Their second album, in my mind, is magnificent.

Pop punk is very under appreciated culturally in a musicology sense.

I still listen to sum41, Green Day, and such bands all the time. They are just too much fun and high energy.

For me at 14 it was "new wave", Depeche Mode, Morrissey, the Smiths, and Duran Duran. I can see the similarities in theme to what you were listening to. It would be interesting to hear your take on that genre.

I’m 16 and over the last two years my music taste has changed drastically. I went from 95% rap to at the start of the year and at the moment I’m shouting to my chemical romance and Nirvana is the most listened band this year. Seeing how artists like Olivia Rodrigo getting big who are in the “pop punk” genre only tells me that pop punk will be back on the rise very again quickly.

This gunna be good

The love for pop punk is well deserved. Billy Talent, 311, and even some of the newer punk bands around all deserve that love too.

You captured a lot of my feelings about pop punk in this video. It’s what kept me alive in high school. It’s how I felt at 15. It’s how I feel now at 28. Zero clue what I’m supposed to be doing.

Can we also acknowledge how amazing they played in that speed? The drums, the breaks are just mind blowing. I always feel acceleration on point

Pop punk is definitely a nice balance of party songs and a sincere teenaged genre, if white man teens or whoever can still relate to those latter songs then it's like, the genre and time period can only ascend in cultural power

I love how the channel now has people waiting to see the video on release. It's like the new iPad or something.

I see myself in every single word of the video. I think that one of the most important aspects of this genre is the sense of brotherhood that is created between people who do not even know each other. Is the feeling that makes you feel in a huge, enormous family held together by the feeling of not fitting in. I sincerely wanna thank you for this video that puts into words what i felt growing up listening to this music

The pop punk era stamped an indelible mark on myself, and I will never atop loving the songs that I indeed grew up with during my teenage years. These songs spoke to me about my fears and my anxieties in a way that no other medium could do and I thank every single artist of the era for holding a helping hand when I needed it the most. Thank you.

I'm going to see All Time Low in a month! Can't wait to finally see a show again! I'm hyped about it. I'm also going to see Neck Deep and Boston Manor, but that'll be in November during Thanksgiving weekend! All of these bands are keeping pop punk alive! All of their albums from last year are great! Can't wait to see what they all do next!

this was a wholesome trip to my earliest teens since we're the same generation, loved it.

Dookie came out when I was 13 turning 14 and I’ve been hooked ever since. Great video as always.

thank god im so glad ur changing up how u use ur intro graphic i knew it could be applied in so much better contexts than what u were using before (even though that's great too) just good to see some experimenting!

Welcome to the Black Parade is like the visual lovechild of Sgt. Pepper and the 1927 sci-fi epic film Metropolis.

Chuck has always been lowkey one of my fav albums

So glad you made this video, this music was the soundtrack to my teenage years and I still jam it often! Such fun and catchy music

I was born in '83, so in my youth it was the earlier stuff from bands like Green Day or The Offspring. Dookie, Smash etc... I kept listening to the newer records too, but as you say, nothing beats the "good old days" when you're young, carefree and discover music for the first time

I’m a teenager and I agree that pop punk kicks ass! I won’t stop listening to it especially MCR and Green Day.

There's something to be said for making a video I really, really liked that celebrates some of my least favourite music of all time. You didn't change my mind about the music, but you did help me understand a bit more of what the people who liked this moment in music liked about it. Understanding each other is much more important than differences in taste. Very well done.

Only ahead of you by a year and loved what you had to share. Loving how this era is starting to get the respect it deserve. Also props for the TOP reference. They pull from so many places musically and have been a fave since 2011 for me.

Your videos always find a way to make me tear up, you’re so passionate man I really appreciate you and your videos. Much love from the Yukon

This was such a great video! Blink, MCR, AFI, Fallout Boy, and all the rest were such staples of my teenage/early university years, this brought back so many great memories.

Never stopped listening to emo/pop punk and I'm 29! Never gonna stop! 🤘

Man, just because the video alone I’ve subbed. Thanks a lot Polyphonic, that was a blast to watch.

i got into pop punk because of avril lavigne and simple plan when i was 11 and since then it never stopped being my favourite genre ever and trust me..i listen to almost every genre .. pop punk combines the catchy melodies i need in a song , the fast and punk sound i love , the lyrics that speak to me more than anything in this life and the coolest fashion ... my life whould suck (way more than it already does) without this music man..i still discover old pop punk bands/songs i never heard before or didn't bother listening to.. and i'm also so glad for its revival :')

this video is actually really important to me, thank you. as a teenager now this is my favorite genre right now, and i know a lot of people say you’ll grow out of the music you loved at 16 but I know in heart it will always be the most special thing to me. thank you for acknowledging this

Everytime I get a little sad, I go back to the music I listened when I was young. I'm very nostalgic. Pop punk is my go-to. Love it.

Pop Punk: If it reminds you of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, it’s pop punk. Fight me.

I was quite literally just today talking about pop punk's impact. I still rock all of these bands to this day

I went to the 04 vans warp tour just to see New Found Glory....even though I saw them like every weekend in middle school...than they moved to cali

I had very strict parents growing up. Controlled just about everything until I was 18. There are a lot of things I missed out on during my teenage years. I feel like now that I'm an adult I can go back and listen to but I know it wouldn't be the same. Just because something came out when you were a certain age doesn't mean you'll experience it the same way you would have when you were that age. I actually have a fairly eclectic taste in music now since I actually got to really explore music on my own later in life.

Seriously one of the best analysis videos I've seen in a long time. I've been subbed to you for years but this one was just beautifully done.

I’m 35 and I never grew out of pop punk. Of course I started liking more “”””mature”””” genres like jazz, ambient, house, etc, but I never came close to turning my back to the mountains of pop-punk I listened as a teen in the late 90s. All this time I thought this said more about me than about the music - as in, I’m someone who doesn’t turn his back to his past, or whatever. This masterpiece of a video made me realize that, actually, no. It says more about how much pop-punk kicks ass. Not only for teens, but also for adults. It will forever kick ass.

To take some love from a Canadian pop punk band in Simple Plan, I’m just a kid (22) but good lord I love me some pop punk. Despite being a kid born into country music, and who still adores country to this day. Pop punk was the ultimate description of my edgy early teenage years, and still a genre I love today. There’s nothing like screaming along as an adult to a chorus that would you know you screamed in your room at 14

First of all: congrats on talking about music in a simple, yet informative way! Being born in '88, I totally relate to your video. Even though I have always been more drawn to progressive music, pop punk has always found a way into my ears - and my heart as a consequence. I'm no hypocrite though - I've had my share of lashing out at Avril Lavigne's "Let Go" or stuff from the late 00s. I guess I had the feeling these were "too mainstream" for my taste (dumb teenager being dumb, I know). Here where I live (Brazil) pop punk was a HUGE deal amongst youngsters. The pop punk lifestyle has been embraced for a very long time and we had a very vibrant circuit of bands that had the genre as their major influence (examples for your appreciation: CPM22, Fresno, NxZero, Dance of Days). Like I said before, I was never the pop punk enthusiast, but Offspring and Blink-182 were bands that had really grown on me - the former for their teenage angst and the latter for their beautiful melodies ('I miss you" and "Down", of course). I think pop punk doesn't get the recognition it deserves for the same reason people don't usually praise KISS for their music. Let me explain: KISS has made amazing music over the years, but their masked antics and theatricality were so overwhelming and so marketed that the music ends up being forgotten. I think the same can be applied for pop punk - the lifestyle and the pseudo-idiocy was more marketed than the music itself, which is a shame if you ask me. I agree with you: as I look back, I do think pop punk should receive more credit.

i didn't expect to be so emotional about pop punk, but thinking back on listening to all this stuff and feeling it so deeply just got me

Bro this video made me cry, this genre just hits me and undoubtedly many people my age on an emotional level