that the band Cute Is What We Aim For is classified as pop punk. When did we go from pop punk being Bowling For Soup to Cute Is What We Aim For? Now, don’t get me wrong, I do love CIWWAF but the fact remains that while catchy and fun to listen to, music has become decidedly the same. Mainstream has always been a “bad” thing, bashed on by punk lovers and classified by the mass number of thirteen year olds standing outside the concert venue for a certain “mainstream” band. But there was some sort of difference between one mainstream band and the other. A few years ago, you had to give valid reasons to not like a mainstream band or to classify them as such; nowadays even the punk culture is finding itself saying, “Oh, who gives a shit? It’s all the same anyway.” Of course this is a bad thing, not only because our generation is no longer producing the raddest music around (Yes, I just said that) but also because bands that do have that special something, that sparkle, that unique “pep in their step” are finding themselves not even bothering to get their message out because they’ve given up hope that anyone will listen. It seems that the uniqueness that was so coveted at one point is now the very reason that we turn our heads and tune down our hearing. Is this the end of rock and roll as we know it? Or maybe, it’s just the beginning of a new genre; robot rock.
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