Why punk died

Nowadays people believe punk is a way of fashion. It is not. It is a way of life to have freedom. Punk was positive, until the skinheads tarnished the image. It is to believe in what you want. A terrible example is of Miley Cyrus who had ruined us punks ultimately. Punk is the stagnant pond that festers with dead algae. What else can they do that hasn't been done before? It is very musty and boring, Top 40 is boring too. Hipsters all sound whiny and the same.

But punk died after There is no punk but a bunch of narcissists trying to sound relevant. Sex Pistols was a novelty band put together like Menudo. The New York Dolls was more punk even though they were glam, because they were shocking for their time.

Johnny Cash was punk. Chances are if you label yourself punk than youre NOT punk. Live life, go on an Indian reservation, help junkies on skid row, do something other than hang out at Hot Topic, and when you experience the gore of reality, then write your music. When we have that than maybe the real punk will resurrect. Punk is anachronistic and has been utterly absorbed into current social trends. I havent seen anything close to generating the kind of interest that bands like the Dead Kennedys or Crass did back in the early to mid eighties.

All genres of music go through an initial breakthrough into public consciousness, some of which are exciting and add dimension to music. This cant last forever and punk is no exception. Punk bands may still labour on today with all good intentions, but it has a feel of staleness about it, clinging to a musical form is when you know its over. Why not try to create new forms of music? People have forgotten how to even approach this. There are still modern punk-rock bands, Panic! See how many times the word "present" appears?

Not to mention, there are plenty of people out there still raving over those bands. I know this argument may seem biased, but I believe that John Lydon Sex Pistols front-man is a major figurehead of punk rock.

We can thus make a critique of anarchistic thinking and the emphasis of individuality and the DiY culture of punk from a Marxist perspective. While for the anarchist, the need for individual freedom surpases any other concern, for the Marxist the anarchistic surge of liberation is unsustainable.

Further, the Marxist call for organised and universal revolution is not employed by the anarchist, who stresses the freedom of the individual to make any choice they desire, regardless of class position and historical situation.

Sidestepping the matter of class consciousness as the anarchistic thinker does, offers little real choice to culturally situated subjects in this instance punks and will thus be unappealing consequent to a particular range of factors for example the cessation of full employment in the s [21].

Punk songs that emphasised the sense of disillusionment with the work system were commonplace. Given that Marxist ways of thinking no longer apply in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and that the Left is in no way more powerful or influential than it was fifty years ago perhaps weaker , clearly then a complete rejection of the old ways — undoubtedly a key element of punk — has not had a positive outcome.

We should thus cast a skeptical eye over the punk movement and its political tendencies more so than has been common among the vast majority of literature on punk. It encouraged an entire generation to hold faith in systemic change taking place spontaneously through wilful agency by a select few key figures Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, etc.

Self-authority would seemingly be the only precondition for radicalisation: no public meetings or boring debates would be required. No organisation would be required for the revolution, the revolution itself was to be reinvented because punk year is a year zero [25].

This is to say, that what made seventies punk so powerful — the feeling of being part of a radically new historical movement, unshackled from cultural history — is also what made it impotent. By dismissing the existing socialist organised struggles against the existing capitalist system, the punks disempowered themselves at exactly the same moment they empowered themselves.

Seventies punk repeated the feeling among the younger generation that a revolution was possible. Yet the revolution did not happen, and it surely failed to inspire the proletariat into active revolutionary struggle to a comparable scale to what occurred between the two world wars with the Communist Party of Great Britain [26].

Sensibility and provocation would be the end of political engagement for many involved with the punk movement. As soon as punk became acceptable by mainstream media and capitalist industry, it ceased to be a persistent subculture [28]. The image of punk has become neutered, representing commodified antiestablishmentarianism. Consequently, it would appear to be the teleological end to punk music and recognising that its subsequent cultural manifestation did not bring about some ultimate change in social or political life — nor a lasting cultural change, as the aesthetic aspect of punk has become over commodified and thus rendered harmless.

Yet outside of the Western lense, the development of a punk ethos continues to grow in the underground and independent music scenes throughout the world. All-female Russian punk performance group Pussy Riot are the most explicit instance of direct punk rebellion taking place in the twenty-first century. Inspired by performance artists, the CIA and US feminist punk-revival underground fanzines as opposed to its music , the group refuses to write or record songs.

However, because they do not make records, Pussy Riot are still alive and are yet to die, thus they have the potential to inflict the nuclear social apocalypse promised by punk bands who have proved delinquent and ineffectual in their delivery. Indeed they promise nothing and, per the punk archetype of absolute individualism, as a singular group they are completely alone; isolated from other punk bands and even from their nation.

To their audience they are incomprehensible, yet through their gesture of nihilistic defiance they have engendered hostile relations once again between the East and West.

They have created a framework for liberals to advocate US intervention into Russia, an isolated and conceivably desperate nuclear power [31]. In some ways, this gives them a status typically reserved for the ruling bourgeoisie elite. However, all of the students who took the survey said that they would begin to listen to punk rock music if it came back into the spotlight. So the question is, if punk rock came back, which many people said they hoped it would, would it stay true to what original punk rock fans love, or would the old genre die out and be replaced with a newer, more alternative version?

Punk rock was not only a type of music that had roots transformed later into more modern punk rock, but also partially had to do with the culture surrounding it, such as punk fashion, literature, and anti-establishment ideas. Punk rock, although altered slightly with every year that may pass, is still music that can entertain people of any age.

So the real question is, do you believe punk rock is really dead? Guide to Anime. Synergy Creative Forces Rundown. Godzilla Vs. When I discovered punk, I also discovered there was another way to be: To be bold, to be yourself, to have opinions. There was a power there, a creative force that maybe blurred the lines between punk and rock a little, but still stayed true to the attitude of punk itself. Most of all, however, Doe seems grateful for the second look many first-generation punk fans are giving the work he and his contemporaries created, as well as the fresh eyes so many younger people are giving it.

Ultimately, Doe hopes that people who read his book are inspired by the characters in it. The first book was sex and drugs and rock and roll and destruction and alienation and the country going to hell. So finding the legacy part of it, in writing this book, was a bit of redemption.

I find that so exciting, but shocking at the same time.