How Pop Punk Killed Scene Music brett wodon
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ecently I had this huge kick of listening to the album Someday Came Suddenly by Attack Attack! I even bought the CD off of someone and had their old singer, Johnny Franck, sign it at a show for his new band, Bilmuri (it was even the 10th anniversary of the album to the day). All of this throwback 2008 nostalgia had me wondering where this whole scene went and what the hell happened to
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that Warped Tour style simple metalcore “scenecore” stuff. There was such a huge surge of that style back in the early 2000s, and scene culture back then was insanely popular. Today, you see none of that. Metalcore has changed, the style has changed within the genre and the Warped Tour scene. The bands on Warped Tour are different or they’re the same bands/people with a new aesthetic. Obviously, this
is a classic example of a fad or trend dying out over time, but what lingered in my mind for weeks was WHAT THE HELL KILLED SCENE CULTURE? I have looked up YouTube videos of what it meant to be scene, what it was really all about, and what people thought of it to be back in the day. There is no straight answer that I could find that solidified anything, but for our intents and purposes in this
