#i dunno man i just want to unironically enjoy something from my childhood while acknowledging its less than good aspects

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me, age 15: man all these punk bands are so great!!! so angry so loud yeah!!!! weird names though :\

me, age 20:..man, this music kinda sucks huh? i dunno man I had some weird tastes as a kid....and seriously what was with the naming convention back then?

me, now, age 28: Huh. Man punk bands in the late 2000′s and early 2010′s really grabbed hold of the general sense of disappointment and disillusionment a lot of teenagers were feeling in America. Sure a lot of it was kinda latched onto by a bunch of white teenaged boys to excuse being assholes because they mistook being an angry kid for a personality trait, but honestly its a bit amazing how raw and emotional a lot of these songs are in retrospect. A bit dramatic? Sure, but they were all honest, or at least the ones that lasted more than a year did at any rate. Fact is being a teenager involves being angry at the world and people around you and even yourself, so it was overall a good thing this music existed as a way for people to use as an outlet back then.

A lot of the names are still shit though.