myOtaku.com: John

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Vitals

Birthday
• 1990-03-29
Gender
• Male
Location
• Kansas
Member Since
• 2003-07-31
Occupation
• Student
Real Name
• John Cook

Personal

Anime Fan Since
• Oh, I don't know. DBZ, sixth grade?
Favorite Anime
• Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, World Record (Animatrix)
Goals
• Finish an Illustrator project of mine, learn guitar
Hobbies
• Illustratoring, browsing the internet, listening to music, being generic.

myOtaku.com: John

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

My 1AC can beat up your 1AC.
I'm at the university right now, and I was just sitting in the lounge-type room by the cafeteria watching MTV a few seconds ago, completely helpless and stranded without the aid of the remote control.

Naturally, I didn't stay long. But I did stay long enough to see the first part of TRL (no idea what that stands for, so don't ask), where the band Simple Plan rode up on the sidecars of motorcycles - which, for the uninformed, is a very new and thus cool and nonconformist and "punk" way to make your entrance - and play a song in front of a large crowd consisting of only - only preppy college girls.

I didn't stay past the first chorus, if only because I was so disgusted with the song. Yes, that may sound almost cliche what with all the OBers and myOers making posts about how lame punk music is nowadays (though it never gets old when told by a Marxist Pythonian), but I actually like some of the pop-punk music out there. Since I don't exactly make any endeavors for more music by them, I've only heard one song from both Yellowcard and Lostprophets ("Ocean Avenue" and "Last Train Home", respectively), but I like them. I may not like the bands themselves, they may be posers and conformists, but I like those songs at least.

But I was (and pretty much always have been) all-out disgusted by Simple Plan. Maybe it's just me, you know, but it seems like even they themselves, inside about a year or two, have pulled even further away from the punk genre than they had even started at. So far, in fact, that as I listened to their new song I couldn't help but wonder, "If this song had been released by Kelly Clarkson instead of Simple Plan, would it have sounded out of place?" And you know what?

It wouldn't have. Simple Plan has, singlehandedly, become an all-out pop band that actually claims to be punk. Not even pop-punk. They are 2004's N'sync.

With all the digressions that have occured in punk music, I've wondered what will happen next. We know where punk was, and where it is. From that, shouldn't we at least have a hint at where they will be in, say, three years? No more need to wonder. We now know.

Boy bands with musical instruments.
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