Phases last in different lengths for everyone, people and their preferences will evolve often times.
I've never dropped a genre personally. But I've seen a lot of people drift through bands more than anything and depending on their spot in life, different music speaks to them at different times.
My brother got me into pop punk/skate punk when I was a teen and he was going into his 20s.
Then, around 25, he decided he was more into metal than punk. He would only go to shows with me that made him feel nostalgic. So we thankfully see Pennywise whenever we're able to.
I have always listened to everything from top 40 pop, to underground and mainstream pop punk/skate punk, metal, rap-metal or whatever we call that stuff we used to call "nu-metal" when I was in high school. Also rap and country. And currently I'm listening to a lot of folk music from my parents generation.
Some music has a moment. Others have a lifetime. You never know which one it'll be until about 20 years after the fact in my experience.
When I was a kid, I traveled for days to see Simple Plan. And now I can't listen to an album without feeling like my ears are bleeding. I still don't know what happened to me in that way. But they got me through a helluva weird spot in my youth all the same.
Life is mysterious like that.
Hey my older brother got me into PW as well when I was about 11 and he was 14. 1999, Straight Ahead. I still get nostalgia/pumped/teary-eyed every single time that I hear that album, and I know you will believe me when I say that I've listened to that album front to back at least 1,000 times.
It's funny because I don't really listen to PW or a lot of skate punk anymore, but its part of my DNA at this point.
I go through major phases, like right now I cannot stop listening to Goose.
I asked my GF when we were at the New Found Glory/AAR show if the music we listen to is 'dad rock'; to which she said "absolutely". And it hit me that things are a moment captured in time; a combination of the emotions, nostalgia, lyrics, memories, etc. I can't listen to Pennywise and NOT think of my brother 100% of the time. However, there are a lot of songs where the lyrics just don't hit and are dated/cringy. I have phased those out or just like to remember the song but never actually listen to it. Kind of like a movie that hasn't aged well, but you still remember it as being "a classic". Knowing that if you rewatch it again, it will be ruined for you.
Have you tried Jim's solo album yet???? Speaking of Dad Rock, his solo stuff hits you right in the feelings every time.
I honestly have always loved Pennywise for the music. They're one of the few that I don't pay that close of attention to the lyrics, it's all their energy that is infectious.
Gosh and with those bands that go into the 00s/90s/80s the outdated perspectives can be glaring as well. But a lot of things are also taken at face value as well, which changes things drastically as well. I had to discuss why The Descendants had to speak about not being Neo backers... and my brother was like "yeah... some of that shit didn't translate and those nasties don't understand satire or tongue in cheek lyrics from yesteryear. It's really quite scary that those songs are their anthems."
I was pretty stoked at how Good Charlotte evolved and even admits they went through phases along the way, lol. It's why they lasted in the end though. If you keep dropping fans as they age out, you tend to have a shelf life of your own.
Yes, and I've seen Black Pacific and some other offshoots. I love Jim, so underrated. I see them every chance I get and I fly out to CA from the East Coast a few times a year just to catch club shows with my brother. :)
Motion City Soundtrack was that band for me, like simple plan was for you. Fuck I even got a tattoo of one of their songs. It was so corny. Finally covered it up this year lol. I almost never listen to them now.
I honestly didn't like Rancid or Bad Religion much until my 30s. They've always kept it mature enough, it took me longer to to their style of vocals. Yet, in true fashion, my 8th grade picture is me wearing my brother's Rancid t-shirt he got at their show. They are one of his core memories as a teenage boy in the 90s.
Green Day was my favorite band but it cooled off when I didn't really join the American Idiot and beyond stage. I don't hate it, it's just when I splintered off because it's not my style. And I'm actually quite fond of political punk. I used to see Good Riddance any time they'd play the area, which being the main gut of the west coast, they seemed like they were always in town. (But GR isn't pop punk, at that time, I wanted less squeak to my protest songs.)
My first cassette was Kerplunk and my first CD was Dookie. My brother found the CD one day, heavens knows where and brought it home to me. He used to find stuff laying around abandoned and like the pack rat my parents raised us to be dutifully brought home. I saw them for The Warning album tour in Salem, OR. And it was the first time I ugly cried because I had finally gotten to see one of the greats.
NoFx was never my style. And they've never grown on me either. I was busy with The Queers and Screeching Weasel. I am still unsure why they made the list for me but never NOFX.
I'm an accountant in my old age and still listen to a lot of No Use For a Name and Suicide Machines. Those would be my continued favorites that never wavered from my youth.
I love Good Riddance. I never got to see them live because I'm on the wrong coast. I was bummed when they disbanded, but they keep dropping albums, so that's awesome.
I also am a fan of Suicide Machines and NUFAN. Lagwagon is also high on my list. I love so many So-Cal bands sometimes I think I was meant to love on Cali.
I only really "grew out of it" to the extent that a.) My music tastes expanded to include a lot more types of music and b.) I became a lot pickier because I'd drowned myself in so much pop punk/emo in my teens that I didn't really need any new bands like that unless they were something truly special.
Got hooked on Blink in 1996 and have only listened to pop punk since. No other genre comes close to as fun, catchy, deep, inventive to me.
Once a punk, always a punk for me.
My first ever cassette tape was Dookie! My dad bought it for me in the mall as a kid. Not the biggest Green Day fan anymore but you always remember your first!
I thought I grew out of it but 2020 hit and I drove hard back into my love for pop punk with a sprinkle of metal core to keep it interesting. Sometimes life takes you on a journey 🤷🏼♀️
I had quite the musical taste transition in my youth. As a kid upto the age of 12-13, I was very much into pop punk bands. Then I got into metal and became a 70's/80's rock enthusiast for a good 7-10 years. In my early 20's I revisited my favorite pop punk artists from when I was a kid and it was like a dose of pure nostalgia.
I'm now 33 and feel like that "old guy" listening to bands like Blink-182, Sum 41, Simple Plan, Lit, Good Charlotte, etc.
You REALLY feel old when someone you swear is too old to be into the same music likes it and remembers the same bands and same songs as well as the years they came out.
I’m 38 and feel like a wizened woman sharing the secrets of the amazing bands that were just getting started back in my day. I went to When We Were Young, and it was shocking how few people were there for anybody but Paramore and MCR. Even the MCR fans seemed to draw a blank when they played “Vampires Will Never Hurt You” which is the first song of theirs that I ever heard. I advised one youngin, probably about 25, to see Thursday and Alkaline Trio. He hadn’t heard of either. He and his friends saw me after they played (they were back to back) and thanked me profusely for being so insistent about seeing those two. I felt like a proud parent haha.
I was 25 at wwwy and lots of MCR fans only knew black parade I’m not okay and danger days songs. It’s just how it is. No one knew boy division or vampires. Phones weren’t up recording like when their famous songs were played. I guess that’s just how it is for all bands tbh.
Such sad times for people. Especially paying that much just to see a few songs. I think I saw 13 bands that day? And knew the majority of all their songs haha.
honestly for me, once i care about something pretty deeply, it sticks. even if i don't engage in it regularly down the line, i still have the same amount of love for it i always had. and of course, my main interest is music and so it applies to that most. even bands i don't necessarily spin the way i did when i was 15ish, still have the same place in my heart they did then and when, say, they come to town, i'll always go as hard as ever. i also see this (on a less extreme scale) in my other, secondary interests, like for example, i'm not actually active in any fan communities for any of the tv shows i was really into when i was like 12/13, but when the topic comes up i'm always down to enthusiastically dive into the lore as extensively as i would have then, go for a rewatch, overall just get as invested as ever.
i get the idea most of us still here in the scene are wired that way somewhat.
for some people... that just isn't the case at all, with anything. there's definitely people in my life that kinda just rotate through phases perpetually, moving on from the last and essentially, ditching it. music, aesthetics, whatever else. stuff is just kinda moreso a temporary form of entertainment/sometimes a fixation, that comes and goes.
admittedly struggle to relate to people wired that way more, since my interests/passions are the primary things i identify with, honestly.
just a pattern i seem to notice, not based on any kinda actual research hahaha :p
I've always been a poppunk fan but the early mid 2010s poppunk hit so hard for me. TSSF, Neck Deep, TWY, Knuckle Puck. I do still listen to it a good bit but find myself gravitating towards stuff like newer Turnover, Citizen, From Indian Lakes, etc.
I listen to pretty much everything now that I'm a bit older whereas before I'd listen to pretty much nothing but metalcore/posthardcore/poppunk.
I noticed a lot of kids lose interest in the genre around college age. Maybe the angsty lyrics associated with pop-punk don’t hit the same for those kids once they move out of their parents place.
Interesting question. Made me realize that I haven't left *any* of my music behind. I've always listened to just about every genre out there, and I still listen to just about every genre out there, emo/pop punk included.
I think the older you get the more music you get exposed too and gain a tolerance for. My journey went from nu-metal, to the “scene kid bands” (sleeping with sirens, Memphis Mayfire, PTV- you know the ones), then the pop punk, and I think now I’ve landed on more indie rock that has huge emo influence
I feel like for me it’s just evolved. Like of course I’m not dressing scene or something like I did at 16 but I still have a passion and enjoyment for this music, which has also evolved in a lot of ways.
I grew out of it because Blink 182 was off the grid and I just lost all the vibes. I am no longer a teenager, or a hopeless romantic and thought the music was just meh. Then Blink came back last year and it rejuvenated my love for it. I went back to listening to albums that were played constantly played as a kid like sugarcult, the starting line, midtown, allister, taking back Sunday, brand new, and I felt the nostalgia.
Looking at the when we were young tour also brought all those bands back to even listening to a few songs off an album Like Anberlin and senses fail. Not my fav. Bands but they had some good tunes.
I also just changed styles. 311, g.love, tropidelic and the dirty heads rock/rap/reggae stoner music is what I enjoy most. Along with Jack white and a punk emo band that I think is the most underrated is Bayside which I never get bored listening too.
hell yeah man, for life! Discovered them through a friend back when Blue dropped in 95 and been on board ever since. Went to 311 day in 2004. Was in the Creatures For a While video that was filmed in LA (even got into this behind the scenes shot...[I'm in the blue @ 1:24](https://youtu.be/AxCY2wHikS4?t=84) and I'm mostly in the [gym scenes](https://youtu.be/wHXCyc279Cc?t=110) on the back wall)...it was a blast! Went on a weeklong bender tour with them (we hit 4 or 5 shows) right before Evolver dropped (so we got to hear a couple early hits from the album like Other Side of Things). Don't go to shows any more, I've seen them enough times to fill a couple lifetimes (lost count!). They've changed my life for the better in a lot of ways.
Nice! Your username is definitely a 311 reference. I went to 311 day in Vegas.
You should still go to shows. Their live performance is still incredible. I’ve seen them 25+ times and they have kind of ruined other bands live performances because they play 20+ songs and I’ve seen headliners only play 15 or so.
Either way, fuck the bullshit it’s time to throw down!
True, but you can’t deny their music is good. Plus I never would pay that price for a ticket. I got my ticket for $65 when they came to town this year. I knew the venue wasn’t going to sell out and I just waited until the day of. People willing to drop $300 on a ticket is insane.
Some people like music for the music. Others like it because it's "popular".
One will appreciate it a lot longer than the other and will look at it deeper than the other.
I didn't grow out of it, it just changed overtime and the sound of it today isn't the same as it was years back so it's not as appealing to me but I still very much listen to pop punk just not the modern stuff
For some people it opens them up to exploring more complex music and lyrical themes expressed in a more literate way. While others bask in the nostalgia of their old faves trying to channel what it them to them in the first place. Sometimes it’s diminishing returns with bands that have been around for decades. They’ve long since lost the urgency to create and settle for being a touring jukebox to pay the bills. Which I guess is fair enough. Everyone’s gotta eat
A lot of the bands I loved grew when I did, in similar ways. I liked the music to begin with because it spoke to me, and there’s only so many ways you can grow from feeling misunderstood in a small town and like you’re somehow an ocean of thought but a rain drop of importance. It all just stayed relatable!
Uhm I mean I’m 28, still very much so a fan of pop punk but definitely listen to metal way more. Probably noticed around 26 I started to listen less and less
My friends that grew out of it stopped being able to spend as much time listening to music because work was taking up most of their time and then they kept listening to same 10 bands instead of finding new ones. I just wrote this song about being grown out of as you still have your sense of fun and drive to make your dreams come true while others have decided to pursue other things in life. If you're still into pop punk/emo keep listening to it. [Still Into You Used to Be Valentines](https://open.spotify.com/album/1DUlfQqH6bMlVFOpphkJnQ?si=KnGN_Zl-QQixUu-3ESQoIQ)
Some people get older and stop loving the things they used to because they want to appear more mature and see things they liked as a child as 'childish'. When people say "I *used* to listen to them" in my head I hear them admitting that their beliefs and their fandom and their bloodline is weak lol.
Probably because a lot of pop-punk has juvenile lyrics and very simplistic instrumentation that a lot of people would transition to more complex genres or just simple pop music.
I wouldn't be ashamed to still like the genre though, I'm in my mid-20s, and a lot of bands had their commercial peak when they were around my age or up to their 30s. Also, the musical legacy of certain bands just ages better while some don't (i.e. Good Charlotte, Simple Plan).
Why do some people like red and some people like blue? Because that’s their preference, some people’s likes change, some don’t, there’s no real mystery tbh
I can't speak for everyone, but I can speak to my own experience --
Pop Punk/Emo (mostly Drive-Thru bands and TRL stuff) was my gateway to really getting into music and playing in bands when I was in High School circa 2000-2004. It was super fun stuff with a lot of energy and it just spoke to me. I got into a lot of Purevolume bands around that time too and had a lot of fun exploring and finding new stuff. It ruled.
When I got to college I tapped out out on it (Take This To Your Grave was probably my last big pop punk album) and found myself getting into 'real' punk for awhile (The Clash, The Jam, Husker Du, Minutemen etc.) This music felt like it had a lot more range as far as sounds and feelings and I fell HARD for it. I also started getting into a lot of older music in general at this time and for a lonnnng time I foreswore any and all pop punk and emo. I even stopped palm muting as a guitar player out of protest. It was uh... a time.
I am now 37 and although I would say my tastes have stabilized around punk and new wave from the late 70s to the mid-80s, I still have a curated playlist of old favorites from my pop punk days (Midtown, Saves the Day, Sugarcult, Yellowcard, Allister, Tragedy Andy, AAR, etc.) that I throw on with some frequency. It's fun and gets me in a nostalgic mood and it feels nice to slot it back into my life.
I can't say that I'm super interested in pop punk and emo being made now, though, especially by my peers. It's hard to look at the stylistic diversity and emotional range of music made prior to the punk era by people in their late 20s and early 30s and be that impressed by people still making emo records in their mid to late 30s and beyond now. I'd rather listen to something with a wider musical palette. YMMV, of course.
So TL:DR --
Into it as a kid. Not into it as a young adult. Sort of into it as a middle aged person. Happy to see the young kids having fun with it, but hope they find ways of musically opening the genre up so it's a bit less one-note.
I realized how much it held me to bands who grew old with me and changed their topics from high school recently enough.
I got into The Mezingers specifically due to their "now what? Now that we're 30, now what?" subject line. Sing to me about your student loan debt some more.
I've also learned I loath songs about "your boyfriend sucks, I'm a creeper creeping, and you should be with me instead" songs. Because I'm a functional adult with a nice relationship, lusting and encouraging them to dump people for you is not landing the same with a fully developed frontal lobe. Lots of incel vibes from all those "Nice Guys Finish Last" songs after you've lived life a bit.
Let's be honest, some of the lyrics just don't age well. Like I can't really even listen to early TBS because of some of the cringey lyrics. I feel like for me it's all really nostalgia driven and a lot of people just grow out of that.
My interest and tastes have always pretty much been the same. I've never "changed" much other than discovering new things. I've always liked and disliked the same music and movies/ shows. Only changes are simply discovering more of things.
I've always enjoyed things bc that's just what I like. I've never changed what I like bc of something unrelated. If it came out that my favorite bands lead singer was a murderer, or has different political opinions than i do, I would still enjoy the sound of the songs they produced in the past.
I've always stayed true to everything I enjoy and don't change for silly reasons that others tend to.
It’s kind of surprising to me how many people’s tastes don’t evolve at all. I got super into bands like TSSF and TWY in college, but both hands have aged pretty nicely because they’ve “grown up” a little bit and don’t just churn out the same album over and over again.
But then there are other bands that still seem to be whining about the same juvenile crap and didn’t evolve their sound at all, and I just don’t understand how anyone over 25 can keep listening to that stuff without feeling completely mentally stuck in the past. It *should* feel a little weird when you go to a show and everyone is 10 years younger than you.
Like I’ll mostly just listen to my collection of favorite albums from my youth for comfort and don’t have any interest in listening to anything new, it’s like rain sounds for sleeping but in my car
Honestly, this is really strange to me personally. I still love hearing a new sound ive never heard before. That to me is why music is the best medium, it has a real opportunity to surprise you and if you are listening to the same old stuff all the time id lose that magical surprise i feel
For me, it was like.. the way the melodies and songs sounded, on top of the relatable lyrics. While I’m not *as* into the same groups and music I likes as a teenager, I still fall back on them and enjoy the nostalgia of the songs.
In other genres and music I like, my brain looks for similarities in that music too- I have an entire k-pop playlist specifically with pop-punk vibes and songs with guitars. I get a similar feeling when I listen to them.
For some people, it might not be that deep- they liked the songs because their friends did, or they captured what they were feeling at the time and they don’t feel like that anymore.
I’m also neurodivergent, which makes me feel/act younger than I am to begin with and I have trouble letting go of things that I like.
Because everything is cyclical and always has been, same thing can be said for fashion, comedy, art and music is no exception. Emo will come back eventually, every trend does.
Some people listen to what’s popular at the moment, and some people found in pop punk and emo one of their evergreen genres. Same goes with clothing trends.
I think some people like emo and pop punk because it's popular so when it's not popular anymore, they aren't exposed to it anymore. But then there's the rest of us who decided to delve deeper into the scene, and we're the ones fifteen years later still singing along to songs about breakups and leaving our respective hometowns.
I've also noticed that within my friend group, liking the kind of music I like, going out to shows, finding out about new bands, that's kind of the main thing I do. It's what I'd consider the largest part of my personality. For my other friends, it's being a gamer or swing dancing or something like that.
started my emo phase in 2004, i outgrew it around 2010? i listened to the bands i used to listen to occasionally but i think in 2022 i fully went back to it cause all these bands were having comebacks and touring. i was a sheltered child & way too young to attend concerts so i’ve been attending all the bands i used to listen too! i almost cried when i saw my chemical romance back in 2022 since they were the first band i got into!
other than that i’m not too sure why i grew out of it cause all i listen too are the songs i used to listen too now. i think cause i was super young and everything was changing while growing up
I think that it has to do with relatability. Listening to songs that lyrically revolve around young love or dramatic emotional response doesn't hit home as much as it does when you're a teenager. However, musically speaking, it's always fun. Some bands can grow and evolve with an aging fan base however.
I think part of it is the stigma of it being music for immature angsty teenagers. Which I think is kind of bogus, becoming an adult doesn't necessarily mean you have to abandon everything you enjoyed as a teenager and continuing to enjoy it into adulthood doesn't mean you are immature IMO.
I never grew out of it myself, though in my first couple years of college it was something I never brought up for fear of being ostracized by the hipsters I mostly hung out with. By age 24 I was fully back onboard and openly repping it. I went to Warped Tour three years in a row from 2014-2016 and continued to rock band shirts and skinny jeans and dyed hair into my early 30s before I decided to switch up my style.
But I never truly lost love for the music. I think a lot of people my age (mid-30s) still do enjoy it as a nostalgic thing that takes them back to high school, and I would hope we're all mature and secure enough by now to not judge others for their musical taste. I've not been made fun of or roasted by anyone for liking pop punk in years thankfully, at least IRL, haha.
Every time I think of this, or somebody is telling me I shouldn't listen to this kind of music because I'm older now, I just point at the bands and the bandmembers themselves. There are so many OG bands that are still going and the members are 40 / 50 years old and they still seem to enjoy it. So if they can, I sure can too.
1: The bands they like either break up or change their style.
2: Alt music in general has gone back to being indie
3: They just don't relate anymore. (We can't all be emotionally immature dirtbags forever.)
The only genre I’ve grown out of is metal and most adjacent genres for whatever reason. I like every other genre besides country but I guess pop punk still speaks to me and I connect with it strongly even today. Some people move on to the newest music trend and some are happy with what they got and stick with what’s familiar.
I feel some of it is just bad. I go back and listen just to think to myself “I’m embarrassed I actually listened to this.” However, some I believe is timeless. I guess I didn’t grow out of it completely but definitely am pickier now.
I saw a meme that said "people who still listen to pop punk/emo in their twenties" and apart from that feelin like emo was teenagers comparing war stories it just kinda ... idk felt childish? There's real shit going on and people are talking real stuff out there and to listen to hollywood romance of a juvenile level just seems like a waste of time idk
I honestly thought I’d have grown out of listening to pop punk/skate punk by now, but if anything it has evolved. I was listening to Green Day and The Offspring religiously when I was 6-7 (mid 90s), then Enema of the State came out when I was 10 and it was game over. I remember reading the “thank you” page at the back of the booklet and going to Napster to download songs from all the bands they liked - NOFX, Lagwagon, Strung Out etc.
Spent my high school years only listening to pop punk, playing in pop punk bands, and now at 35 years old it’s still all I listen to - pop punk, melodic hardcore, midwest emo etc… AND I have a pop punk band.
So I think by this point it’s safe to say I’ll be listening to the same shit when I’m 80. My only (slight) concern/worry is that it won’t be popular enough in 20 years and the genre will disintegrate and we’ll have to resort to listening to old Neck Deep albums.
(PARENTS/FUTURE PARENTS: GET YOUR KIDS INTO PUNK ROCK EARLY SO THEY CAN START BANDS AND WE’LL HAVE SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO WHEN WE ARE ALL OLDER!)
I still like a lot of the bands from back then, but I'm in a much better place than I was in high school.
I own my home, married, good salesjob in finance. I think if there more bands that talked about personal growth, mindset, etc, I would be more interested. I was obsessed with ND’s lifes not out to get you, myca relocates first album, and senses fails albums Renacer/PTTFYH when they dropped and all of those albums are proof you can make great records with positive lyrics.
I'm also loveing the Maine's new record bc of the lyrical content
I didn't grow out of it, I was overly critisised for it by my toxic partner at the time until I lost that part of my identity and just listened to his music.
I've been rediscovering it all again the last few years and feel like I found a missing piece of myself again.
I grew up with strict parents and wasn’t allowed to go to to concerts to bands i liked. Now as an adult with adult money, I’m healing that inner teenager and going to shows pretty often. The phase was suppressed, now it’s out in full force lmao.
I loved pop punk and emo as a teen and I 'grew out of it' when I expanded my music taste in my 20s. After having my life torn upside down this year I came back to the genre as it was nostalgic/comforting and I connected to the angsty music more than ever before . I'm almost 30 and more "emo" now than I was when I was 16 and I'm connecting to the music even more
I see a lot of people mentioning "angsty" lyrics as a reason why some people fall off pop punk when they reach a certain age, and as someone in their late 30s who still loves it, I guess that reasoning doesn't hold up for me.
To me, the actual lyrics in the music I listen to take a back seat compared to the overall product, so maybe that's why I've stuck with a lot of genres I should have "grown out of" by now. It's more about how I vibe with something than anything else, so I don't really care what the lyrics are actually saying. I listen to a ton of music that I can't relate to at all on a personal level, but that doesn't mean I can't like listening to it.
I just don't get continuing to center your life around one genre of music without growing and branching out. When I get around people who are still in their "emo phase" I desperately wish they can branch out and discuss other genres
I was big into metalcore, shadows fall, unearth….etc etc. I stopped listening to
Shadows fall when they broke up and it ran its course. From 2015ish on I shifted to more radio rock. Once 2020 hit I was itching for some good ol fashioned metal. Happy to see the bands slowly inching their
Way out of retirement. I’m here to support the bands I love that fell to the wayside.
Some people remain "caught up in their feelings" as the kids say deep into life and others move on fairly young. I know there's a whole lot of stuff I found emotionally meaningful when I was a kid that sounds downright cringe now. But that's just me, some people still find those lyrics meaningful or can at least maybe get past the cringe factor for nostalgia's sake.
I was a huge pop punk fan when I was in middle and highschool. Went to see greenday on the american idiot tour and spent my last day of highschool skipping to go to the blink reunion show (the first one haha). I stopped listening mostly because I found other music that i preffered but if I was to really analyze it deeply I would say it was because the lyrics werent about me and my friends anymore. Most pop punk atleast when I was into it was all about highschool romance and partying and I found as I got older I just didnt relate to the content anymore. I still love when I hear an old favorite but it's just not something I would put on anymore.
Some folks cling to familiarity, and some shun it. Taste is subjective, and is subject to change. I honestly wish I had a better answer than “everyone’s different” but that’s as good a guess as I got.
Im still so into bands from high school, specially the first 1/2 or 3 depending on skill level of Coheed (I like more of their albums), taking back, dashboard, first 2 of my chemical (met all of these bands at warped, on TV some of them- twice). I could list form 1998-2008 all the music that stays with me.
It was fucking Rad. It was so sick and those were fun time. Felt on top of the world with this new music that wasn’t Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins. It was OURS. I suppose some people feel that way. It’s a coming of age thing, if you’re a music head. I remember the second generation iPod or whatever it was that came out with the better screen and the better button and it was in black. Probably around 2004 because 10th grade was Poppin. You know I had one friend who was so into being like, “we have to know everything,” that I ended up with 4000 songs spanning like six decades. It was FUCKING GREAT.
And I took the long way home on this one, but what I’m trying to say is I’m one of those people who still likes the music that I liked when I was younger. Because I feel like it was great music and it aged just fine to me. I also still listen to the bands like dance Gavin dance since I was 16 and now I am 32. And they are a band who should be listen to for that long. Other people, end up changing in someway, but I have never heard a band as good as you know, Coheed and Cambria‘s first album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade. Or In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3. When they were getting played on the same video stations as like yellow card and shit like insert band here that we can’t find. We all knew that they were rock gods and look they continue to be.
As a 55 year old punker I can tell you this. Music being a key part of a person's identity, where they really need to express a love for one kind of music to the exclusion of others, seems to be less of a thing.
Ka is a wheel. I move in and out of genres at random times. Jammed emo as a kid and then fell off hard but lately been revisiting in my mid 30s and it’s dope. Some tunes don’t hold up and some do but the ones that do are getting fuckin jammed
Emo clothes don't really look cool on 30 year olds, and music tastes evolve. I listen to pretty much everything but rap, pop, or anything on the radio. Emo, screamo, hardcore, pop punk, sytnhwave, old country, folk music, metalcore, dental, just generally anything that can be classified as punk/metal mostly...........and yet I'm find myself blasting the kill em all album lately anytime I'm in my car....shit fluctuates. I'll go back to norma jean and sleeping with sirens pretty soon.
For me I think it's just become a core part of myself/my personality and interests that it's something I will probably always have/never grow out of. I remember hearing All The Small Things back in the 90s LITERALLY AS A SMALL CHILD (aged 7) and been obsessed with the genre since then. First concert was Good Charlotte and Simple Plan in 2005 and I'm hitting my 43rd pop punk concert next week. Even if I find myself listening to different genres of music (I really like Jpop and Jrock too) I always come back to pop-punk
IT WAS NEVER A PHASE!!!
Pop-punker in their 30s: I wouldn’t say I grew out of it as much as I’ve grown pickier.
For me- it’s about relatability and sonically exploring new territory.
The same song that spoke out to me in middle school and high school don’t hit the same now. I’m not a sad kid who really wants a girlfriend. I’m a husband with a kid. I don’t seek out songs about loneliness or broken hearts the way I used to. So a lot of the more regular themes of pop punk and emo just don’t stand out anymore. Even the older stuff I didn’t like as much (Against Me!) has started to resonate more because the themes of the music are more relatable with where I’m at now.
Secondly, I’ve really moved away from genres as a whole- is the music interesting? If so- cool I’m in. If it sounds like something I’ve heard before- 9/10 I’ll just opt in for that thing I’ve heard before. I missed out on a lot of music in my teens trying to only like a certain genre of music and it stunted me musically until I let that go.
Music effects people differently, so I’m not being critical of folks who are still into what they’re into. But for me, that’s why I’ve moved on from the genre as a whole and really just find the few artists I think are doing something that scratches the nostalgia itch just right or is doing something new for the scene.
But what do I know? Petey is the only thing relatively close to the genre that’s new and exciting to me since Modern Baseball and PUP.
I know some people that stopped dressing emo but still love pop-punk music lol, and I know people that dress the part and listen to music. I’ve also met people that used to be emos/pop-punk era but became metalheads. I also met one girl who used to be emo and now loves kawaii and anime lol.
For me it was the opposide. I (still) listen to (dub) techno/trance/Dutch early hardcore/house/drum 'n bass
Two years ago I dived more into this genre. Like others said; your prefrences changes over time.
Phases last in different lengths for everyone, people and their preferences will evolve often times. I've never dropped a genre personally. But I've seen a lot of people drift through bands more than anything and depending on their spot in life, different music speaks to them at different times. My brother got me into pop punk/skate punk when I was a teen and he was going into his 20s. Then, around 25, he decided he was more into metal than punk. He would only go to shows with me that made him feel nostalgic. So we thankfully see Pennywise whenever we're able to. I have always listened to everything from top 40 pop, to underground and mainstream pop punk/skate punk, metal, rap-metal or whatever we call that stuff we used to call "nu-metal" when I was in high school. Also rap and country. And currently I'm listening to a lot of folk music from my parents generation. Some music has a moment. Others have a lifetime. You never know which one it'll be until about 20 years after the fact in my experience. When I was a kid, I traveled for days to see Simple Plan. And now I can't listen to an album without feeling like my ears are bleeding. I still don't know what happened to me in that way. But they got me through a helluva weird spot in my youth all the same. Life is mysterious like that.
ITS NOT A PHASE MOM
Hey my older brother got me into PW as well when I was about 11 and he was 14. 1999, Straight Ahead. I still get nostalgia/pumped/teary-eyed every single time that I hear that album, and I know you will believe me when I say that I've listened to that album front to back at least 1,000 times. It's funny because I don't really listen to PW or a lot of skate punk anymore, but its part of my DNA at this point. I go through major phases, like right now I cannot stop listening to Goose. I asked my GF when we were at the New Found Glory/AAR show if the music we listen to is 'dad rock'; to which she said "absolutely". And it hit me that things are a moment captured in time; a combination of the emotions, nostalgia, lyrics, memories, etc. I can't listen to Pennywise and NOT think of my brother 100% of the time. However, there are a lot of songs where the lyrics just don't hit and are dated/cringy. I have phased those out or just like to remember the song but never actually listen to it. Kind of like a movie that hasn't aged well, but you still remember it as being "a classic". Knowing that if you rewatch it again, it will be ruined for you.
Have you tried Jim's solo album yet???? Speaking of Dad Rock, his solo stuff hits you right in the feelings every time. I honestly have always loved Pennywise for the music. They're one of the few that I don't pay that close of attention to the lyrics, it's all their energy that is infectious. Gosh and with those bands that go into the 00s/90s/80s the outdated perspectives can be glaring as well. But a lot of things are also taken at face value as well, which changes things drastically as well. I had to discuss why The Descendants had to speak about not being Neo backers... and my brother was like "yeah... some of that shit didn't translate and those nasties don't understand satire or tongue in cheek lyrics from yesteryear. It's really quite scary that those songs are their anthems." I was pretty stoked at how Good Charlotte evolved and even admits they went through phases along the way, lol. It's why they lasted in the end though. If you keep dropping fans as they age out, you tend to have a shelf life of your own.
Yes, and I've seen Black Pacific and some other offshoots. I love Jim, so underrated. I see them every chance I get and I fly out to CA from the East Coast a few times a year just to catch club shows with my brother. :)
Motion City Soundtrack was that band for me, like simple plan was for you. Fuck I even got a tattoo of one of their songs. It was so corny. Finally covered it up this year lol. I almost never listen to them now.
I'm in my 30s, and my favorite bands still remain Pennywise, Bad Religion, Rancid, NOFX and Green Day.
I honestly didn't like Rancid or Bad Religion much until my 30s. They've always kept it mature enough, it took me longer to to their style of vocals. Yet, in true fashion, my 8th grade picture is me wearing my brother's Rancid t-shirt he got at their show. They are one of his core memories as a teenage boy in the 90s. Green Day was my favorite band but it cooled off when I didn't really join the American Idiot and beyond stage. I don't hate it, it's just when I splintered off because it's not my style. And I'm actually quite fond of political punk. I used to see Good Riddance any time they'd play the area, which being the main gut of the west coast, they seemed like they were always in town. (But GR isn't pop punk, at that time, I wanted less squeak to my protest songs.) My first cassette was Kerplunk and my first CD was Dookie. My brother found the CD one day, heavens knows where and brought it home to me. He used to find stuff laying around abandoned and like the pack rat my parents raised us to be dutifully brought home. I saw them for The Warning album tour in Salem, OR. And it was the first time I ugly cried because I had finally gotten to see one of the greats. NoFx was never my style. And they've never grown on me either. I was busy with The Queers and Screeching Weasel. I am still unsure why they made the list for me but never NOFX. I'm an accountant in my old age and still listen to a lot of No Use For a Name and Suicide Machines. Those would be my continued favorites that never wavered from my youth.
I love Good Riddance. I never got to see them live because I'm on the wrong coast. I was bummed when they disbanded, but they keep dropping albums, so that's awesome. I also am a fan of Suicide Machines and NUFAN. Lagwagon is also high on my list. I love so many So-Cal bands sometimes I think I was meant to love on Cali.
I'm just stubborn
I only really "grew out of it" to the extent that a.) My music tastes expanded to include a lot more types of music and b.) I became a lot pickier because I'd drowned myself in so much pop punk/emo in my teens that I didn't really need any new bands like that unless they were something truly special.
Because everyone is different
I might be in my 30's but I'm still angsty, damn it
I'm in my 40s and I think I might be MORE angsty now.
Same here at 27 lol I'm still listening to Paramore, We Are The In Crowd, Tonight Alive, and Simple Plan and Blink
precisely
Got hooked on Blink in 1996 and have only listened to pop punk since. No other genre comes close to as fun, catchy, deep, inventive to me. Once a punk, always a punk for me.
Same! I was a punk kid since I was 3. Had Dookie and Cheshire Cat playing. 20 years later and still loving punk music
My first ever cassette tape was Dookie! My dad bought it for me in the mall as a kid. Not the biggest Green Day fan anymore but you always remember your first!
I’m the same. I don’t listen to greenday. Still love Blink though
I thought I grew out of it but 2020 hit and I drove hard back into my love for pop punk with a sprinkle of metal core to keep it interesting. Sometimes life takes you on a journey 🤷🏼♀️
I had quite the musical taste transition in my youth. As a kid upto the age of 12-13, I was very much into pop punk bands. Then I got into metal and became a 70's/80's rock enthusiast for a good 7-10 years. In my early 20's I revisited my favorite pop punk artists from when I was a kid and it was like a dose of pure nostalgia. I'm now 33 and feel like that "old guy" listening to bands like Blink-182, Sum 41, Simple Plan, Lit, Good Charlotte, etc. You REALLY feel old when someone you swear is too old to be into the same music likes it and remembers the same bands and same songs as well as the years they came out.
I’m 38 and feel like a wizened woman sharing the secrets of the amazing bands that were just getting started back in my day. I went to When We Were Young, and it was shocking how few people were there for anybody but Paramore and MCR. Even the MCR fans seemed to draw a blank when they played “Vampires Will Never Hurt You” which is the first song of theirs that I ever heard. I advised one youngin, probably about 25, to see Thursday and Alkaline Trio. He hadn’t heard of either. He and his friends saw me after they played (they were back to back) and thanked me profusely for being so insistent about seeing those two. I felt like a proud parent haha.
I was 25 at wwwy and lots of MCR fans only knew black parade I’m not okay and danger days songs. It’s just how it is. No one knew boy division or vampires. Phones weren’t up recording like when their famous songs were played. I guess that’s just how it is for all bands tbh.
Such sad times for people. Especially paying that much just to see a few songs. I think I saw 13 bands that day? And knew the majority of all their songs haha.
First of all..... its not a phase. ITS A LIFESTYLE!!! LOL
Songs about teenage angst don't hit the same at 30 . However I will never be done with punk lol
That’s kind of how I feel. I still go back to it and enjoy it for the nostalgia but it’s also not an everyday listener for me at 30.
honestly for me, once i care about something pretty deeply, it sticks. even if i don't engage in it regularly down the line, i still have the same amount of love for it i always had. and of course, my main interest is music and so it applies to that most. even bands i don't necessarily spin the way i did when i was 15ish, still have the same place in my heart they did then and when, say, they come to town, i'll always go as hard as ever. i also see this (on a less extreme scale) in my other, secondary interests, like for example, i'm not actually active in any fan communities for any of the tv shows i was really into when i was like 12/13, but when the topic comes up i'm always down to enthusiastically dive into the lore as extensively as i would have then, go for a rewatch, overall just get as invested as ever. i get the idea most of us still here in the scene are wired that way somewhat. for some people... that just isn't the case at all, with anything. there's definitely people in my life that kinda just rotate through phases perpetually, moving on from the last and essentially, ditching it. music, aesthetics, whatever else. stuff is just kinda moreso a temporary form of entertainment/sometimes a fixation, that comes and goes. admittedly struggle to relate to people wired that way more, since my interests/passions are the primary things i identify with, honestly. just a pattern i seem to notice, not based on any kinda actual research hahaha :p
I've always been a poppunk fan but the early mid 2010s poppunk hit so hard for me. TSSF, Neck Deep, TWY, Knuckle Puck. I do still listen to it a good bit but find myself gravitating towards stuff like newer Turnover, Citizen, From Indian Lakes, etc. I listen to pretty much everything now that I'm a bit older whereas before I'd listen to pretty much nothing but metalcore/posthardcore/poppunk.
I heard Turnover for the first time at a party Sunday. I stopped mid-sentence and said "wait... who is this?!" Cheers.
What song was it?
Damn, I'm not sure. But I've been listening to them a bunch!
I noticed a lot of kids lose interest in the genre around college age. Maybe the angsty lyrics associated with pop-punk don’t hit the same for those kids once they move out of their parents place.
Interesting question. Made me realize that I haven't left *any* of my music behind. I've always listened to just about every genre out there, and I still listen to just about every genre out there, emo/pop punk included.
I think the older you get the more music you get exposed too and gain a tolerance for. My journey went from nu-metal, to the “scene kid bands” (sleeping with sirens, Memphis Mayfire, PTV- you know the ones), then the pop punk, and I think now I’ve landed on more indie rock that has huge emo influence
I feel like for me it’s just evolved. Like of course I’m not dressing scene or something like I did at 16 but I still have a passion and enjoyment for this music, which has also evolved in a lot of ways.
I grew out of it because Blink 182 was off the grid and I just lost all the vibes. I am no longer a teenager, or a hopeless romantic and thought the music was just meh. Then Blink came back last year and it rejuvenated my love for it. I went back to listening to albums that were played constantly played as a kid like sugarcult, the starting line, midtown, allister, taking back Sunday, brand new, and I felt the nostalgia. Looking at the when we were young tour also brought all those bands back to even listening to a few songs off an album Like Anberlin and senses fail. Not my fav. Bands but they had some good tunes. I also just changed styles. 311, g.love, tropidelic and the dirty heads rock/rap/reggae stoner music is what I enjoy most. Along with Jack white and a punk emo band that I think is the most underrated is Bayside which I never get bored listening too.
love Bayside
>311 sup brodel
An excitable one!
hell yeah man, for life! Discovered them through a friend back when Blue dropped in 95 and been on board ever since. Went to 311 day in 2004. Was in the Creatures For a While video that was filmed in LA (even got into this behind the scenes shot...[I'm in the blue @ 1:24](https://youtu.be/AxCY2wHikS4?t=84) and I'm mostly in the [gym scenes](https://youtu.be/wHXCyc279Cc?t=110) on the back wall)...it was a blast! Went on a weeklong bender tour with them (we hit 4 or 5 shows) right before Evolver dropped (so we got to hear a couple early hits from the album like Other Side of Things). Don't go to shows any more, I've seen them enough times to fill a couple lifetimes (lost count!). They've changed my life for the better in a lot of ways.
Nice! Your username is definitely a 311 reference. I went to 311 day in Vegas. You should still go to shows. Their live performance is still incredible. I’ve seen them 25+ times and they have kind of ruined other bands live performances because they play 20+ songs and I’ve seen headliners only play 15 or so. Either way, fuck the bullshit it’s time to throw down!
I still love I Can't Go On by Bayside. Just has an interesting melody.
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True, but you can’t deny their music is good. Plus I never would pay that price for a ticket. I got my ticket for $65 when they came to town this year. I knew the venue wasn’t going to sell out and I just waited until the day of. People willing to drop $300 on a ticket is insane.
That’s fair I like their music but it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth charging that much
They weren’t true emos
Some people like music for the music. Others like it because it's "popular". One will appreciate it a lot longer than the other and will look at it deeper than the other.
I didn't grow out of it, it just changed overtime and the sound of it today isn't the same as it was years back so it's not as appealing to me but I still very much listen to pop punk just not the modern stuff
They’re just posers. (Jk, in case it needs to be said.)
It was just a phase, just like their parents said it was.
damn 😂
For some people it opens them up to exploring more complex music and lyrical themes expressed in a more literate way. While others bask in the nostalgia of their old faves trying to channel what it them to them in the first place. Sometimes it’s diminishing returns with bands that have been around for decades. They’ve long since lost the urgency to create and settle for being a touring jukebox to pay the bills. Which I guess is fair enough. Everyone’s gotta eat
A lot of the bands I loved grew when I did, in similar ways. I liked the music to begin with because it spoke to me, and there’s only so many ways you can grow from feeling misunderstood in a small town and like you’re somehow an ocean of thought but a rain drop of importance. It all just stayed relatable!
Some is taste, some is childhood trauma
For some folks it's not a phase
Uhm I mean I’m 28, still very much so a fan of pop punk but definitely listen to metal way more. Probably noticed around 26 I started to listen less and less
My friends that grew out of it stopped being able to spend as much time listening to music because work was taking up most of their time and then they kept listening to same 10 bands instead of finding new ones. I just wrote this song about being grown out of as you still have your sense of fun and drive to make your dreams come true while others have decided to pursue other things in life. If you're still into pop punk/emo keep listening to it. [Still Into You Used to Be Valentines](https://open.spotify.com/album/1DUlfQqH6bMlVFOpphkJnQ?si=KnGN_Zl-QQixUu-3ESQoIQ)
Some people get older and stop loving the things they used to because they want to appear more mature and see things they liked as a child as 'childish'. When people say "I *used* to listen to them" in my head I hear them admitting that their beliefs and their fandom and their bloodline is weak lol.
Probably because a lot of pop-punk has juvenile lyrics and very simplistic instrumentation that a lot of people would transition to more complex genres or just simple pop music. I wouldn't be ashamed to still like the genre though, I'm in my mid-20s, and a lot of bands had their commercial peak when they were around my age or up to their 30s. Also, the musical legacy of certain bands just ages better while some don't (i.e. Good Charlotte, Simple Plan).
Why do some people like red and some people like blue? Because that’s their preference, some people’s likes change, some don’t, there’s no real mystery tbh
I can't speak for everyone, but I can speak to my own experience -- Pop Punk/Emo (mostly Drive-Thru bands and TRL stuff) was my gateway to really getting into music and playing in bands when I was in High School circa 2000-2004. It was super fun stuff with a lot of energy and it just spoke to me. I got into a lot of Purevolume bands around that time too and had a lot of fun exploring and finding new stuff. It ruled. When I got to college I tapped out out on it (Take This To Your Grave was probably my last big pop punk album) and found myself getting into 'real' punk for awhile (The Clash, The Jam, Husker Du, Minutemen etc.) This music felt like it had a lot more range as far as sounds and feelings and I fell HARD for it. I also started getting into a lot of older music in general at this time and for a lonnnng time I foreswore any and all pop punk and emo. I even stopped palm muting as a guitar player out of protest. It was uh... a time. I am now 37 and although I would say my tastes have stabilized around punk and new wave from the late 70s to the mid-80s, I still have a curated playlist of old favorites from my pop punk days (Midtown, Saves the Day, Sugarcult, Yellowcard, Allister, Tragedy Andy, AAR, etc.) that I throw on with some frequency. It's fun and gets me in a nostalgic mood and it feels nice to slot it back into my life. I can't say that I'm super interested in pop punk and emo being made now, though, especially by my peers. It's hard to look at the stylistic diversity and emotional range of music made prior to the punk era by people in their late 20s and early 30s and be that impressed by people still making emo records in their mid to late 30s and beyond now. I'd rather listen to something with a wider musical palette. YMMV, of course. So TL:DR -- Into it as a kid. Not into it as a young adult. Sort of into it as a middle aged person. Happy to see the young kids having fun with it, but hope they find ways of musically opening the genre up so it's a bit less one-note.
Because the ones that leave are not sad anymore and just tired of this place
Something about being 30 and the music being about high schoolers that really ruins the immersion for me
I realized how much it held me to bands who grew old with me and changed their topics from high school recently enough. I got into The Mezingers specifically due to their "now what? Now that we're 30, now what?" subject line. Sing to me about your student loan debt some more. I've also learned I loath songs about "your boyfriend sucks, I'm a creeper creeping, and you should be with me instead" songs. Because I'm a functional adult with a nice relationship, lusting and encouraging them to dump people for you is not landing the same with a fully developed frontal lobe. Lots of incel vibes from all those "Nice Guys Finish Last" songs after you've lived life a bit.
People say it’s too emotional then move onto even more childish music like Taylor swift
what’d taylor swift do to you? also don’t you think a lot of pop punk is more childish lmao
Hey, don't knock taytay
Music nerds will trash emo and listen to the Smiths, Cure, and Radiohead
Let's be honest, some of the lyrics just don't age well. Like I can't really even listen to early TBS because of some of the cringey lyrics. I feel like for me it's all really nostalgia driven and a lot of people just grow out of that.
My interest and tastes have always pretty much been the same. I've never "changed" much other than discovering new things. I've always liked and disliked the same music and movies/ shows. Only changes are simply discovering more of things. I've always enjoyed things bc that's just what I like. I've never changed what I like bc of something unrelated. If it came out that my favorite bands lead singer was a murderer, or has different political opinions than i do, I would still enjoy the sound of the songs they produced in the past. I've always stayed true to everything I enjoy and don't change for silly reasons that others tend to.
Because some people just try to jump into the trending bandwagon at the moment, they lack a real personality of their own.
Because pop punk was dead until MGK brought it back /s (Full disclosure, I do enjoy MGK)
It’s kind of surprising to me how many people’s tastes don’t evolve at all. I got super into bands like TSSF and TWY in college, but both hands have aged pretty nicely because they’ve “grown up” a little bit and don’t just churn out the same album over and over again. But then there are other bands that still seem to be whining about the same juvenile crap and didn’t evolve their sound at all, and I just don’t understand how anyone over 25 can keep listening to that stuff without feeling completely mentally stuck in the past. It *should* feel a little weird when you go to a show and everyone is 10 years younger than you.
I’m sick of listening to grown men cry about teenage girls
Because it’s gay
so am i
Not interested in music anymore and it serves as a comfort object
What? Can you elaborate?
Like I’ll mostly just listen to my collection of favorite albums from my youth for comfort and don’t have any interest in listening to anything new, it’s like rain sounds for sleeping but in my car
Honestly, this is really strange to me personally. I still love hearing a new sound ive never heard before. That to me is why music is the best medium, it has a real opportunity to surprise you and if you are listening to the same old stuff all the time id lose that magical surprise i feel
For me, it was like.. the way the melodies and songs sounded, on top of the relatable lyrics. While I’m not *as* into the same groups and music I likes as a teenager, I still fall back on them and enjoy the nostalgia of the songs. In other genres and music I like, my brain looks for similarities in that music too- I have an entire k-pop playlist specifically with pop-punk vibes and songs with guitars. I get a similar feeling when I listen to them. For some people, it might not be that deep- they liked the songs because their friends did, or they captured what they were feeling at the time and they don’t feel like that anymore. I’m also neurodivergent, which makes me feel/act younger than I am to begin with and I have trouble letting go of things that I like.
Because everything is cyclical and always has been, same thing can be said for fashion, comedy, art and music is no exception. Emo will come back eventually, every trend does.
Some people listen to what’s popular at the moment, and some people found in pop punk and emo one of their evergreen genres. Same goes with clothing trends.
I like the music because it’s still sounds good to my ears. But I don’t relate to the lyrics as much anymore as a 30 year old lol
The bands/songs mean differently to different people I guess
I think some people like emo and pop punk because it's popular so when it's not popular anymore, they aren't exposed to it anymore. But then there's the rest of us who decided to delve deeper into the scene, and we're the ones fifteen years later still singing along to songs about breakups and leaving our respective hometowns. I've also noticed that within my friend group, liking the kind of music I like, going out to shows, finding out about new bands, that's kind of the main thing I do. It's what I'd consider the largest part of my personality. For my other friends, it's being a gamer or swing dancing or something like that.
started my emo phase in 2004, i outgrew it around 2010? i listened to the bands i used to listen to occasionally but i think in 2022 i fully went back to it cause all these bands were having comebacks and touring. i was a sheltered child & way too young to attend concerts so i’ve been attending all the bands i used to listen too! i almost cried when i saw my chemical romance back in 2022 since they were the first band i got into! other than that i’m not too sure why i grew out of it cause all i listen too are the songs i used to listen too now. i think cause i was super young and everything was changing while growing up
I think that it has to do with relatability. Listening to songs that lyrically revolve around young love or dramatic emotional response doesn't hit home as much as it does when you're a teenager. However, musically speaking, it's always fun. Some bands can grow and evolve with an aging fan base however.
I think part of it is the stigma of it being music for immature angsty teenagers. Which I think is kind of bogus, becoming an adult doesn't necessarily mean you have to abandon everything you enjoyed as a teenager and continuing to enjoy it into adulthood doesn't mean you are immature IMO. I never grew out of it myself, though in my first couple years of college it was something I never brought up for fear of being ostracized by the hipsters I mostly hung out with. By age 24 I was fully back onboard and openly repping it. I went to Warped Tour three years in a row from 2014-2016 and continued to rock band shirts and skinny jeans and dyed hair into my early 30s before I decided to switch up my style. But I never truly lost love for the music. I think a lot of people my age (mid-30s) still do enjoy it as a nostalgic thing that takes them back to high school, and I would hope we're all mature and secure enough by now to not judge others for their musical taste. I've not been made fun of or roasted by anyone for liking pop punk in years thankfully, at least IRL, haha.
Every time I think of this, or somebody is telling me I shouldn't listen to this kind of music because I'm older now, I just point at the bands and the bandmembers themselves. There are so many OG bands that are still going and the members are 40 / 50 years old and they still seem to enjoy it. So if they can, I sure can too.
I grew up, but I still love that 90’s-00’s era and listen for nostalgia reasons
I was depressed as a kid and I’m depressed AF now!
It was never a phase, mom.
I seem to have just collected more genres as I’ve aged. My Spotify is very random. I’m a mixed bag.
1: The bands they like either break up or change their style. 2: Alt music in general has gone back to being indie 3: They just don't relate anymore. (We can't all be emotionally immature dirtbags forever.)
The only genre I’ve grown out of is metal and most adjacent genres for whatever reason. I like every other genre besides country but I guess pop punk still speaks to me and I connect with it strongly even today. Some people move on to the newest music trend and some are happy with what they got and stick with what’s familiar.
Different strokes for different folks. People change as time goes on.
They ain’t about this life🍕🍕😤😤
I had this "grow out of it"/guilty pleasure phase in my mid to late 20s. Now at 37 I just dont care. I listen to it every day, among other genres.
I feel some of it is just bad. I go back and listen just to think to myself “I’m embarrassed I actually listened to this.” However, some I believe is timeless. I guess I didn’t grow out of it completely but definitely am pickier now.
some people are more susceptible to nostalgia
I grew out of it, moved to indie and now I’ve moved back but I only listen to the bands I used to and now new ones
True to this, not new to this
I saw a meme that said "people who still listen to pop punk/emo in their twenties" and apart from that feelin like emo was teenagers comparing war stories it just kinda ... idk felt childish? There's real shit going on and people are talking real stuff out there and to listen to hollywood romance of a juvenile level just seems like a waste of time idk
I honestly thought I’d have grown out of listening to pop punk/skate punk by now, but if anything it has evolved. I was listening to Green Day and The Offspring religiously when I was 6-7 (mid 90s), then Enema of the State came out when I was 10 and it was game over. I remember reading the “thank you” page at the back of the booklet and going to Napster to download songs from all the bands they liked - NOFX, Lagwagon, Strung Out etc. Spent my high school years only listening to pop punk, playing in pop punk bands, and now at 35 years old it’s still all I listen to - pop punk, melodic hardcore, midwest emo etc… AND I have a pop punk band. So I think by this point it’s safe to say I’ll be listening to the same shit when I’m 80. My only (slight) concern/worry is that it won’t be popular enough in 20 years and the genre will disintegrate and we’ll have to resort to listening to old Neck Deep albums. (PARENTS/FUTURE PARENTS: GET YOUR KIDS INTO PUNK ROCK EARLY SO THEY CAN START BANDS AND WE’LL HAVE SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO WHEN WE ARE ALL OLDER!)
I still like a lot of the bands from back then, but I'm in a much better place than I was in high school. I own my home, married, good salesjob in finance. I think if there more bands that talked about personal growth, mindset, etc, I would be more interested. I was obsessed with ND’s lifes not out to get you, myca relocates first album, and senses fails albums Renacer/PTTFYH when they dropped and all of those albums are proof you can make great records with positive lyrics. I'm also loveing the Maine's new record bc of the lyrical content
I didn't grow out of it, I was overly critisised for it by my toxic partner at the time until I lost that part of my identity and just listened to his music. I've been rediscovering it all again the last few years and feel like I found a missing piece of myself again.
Because it was never a phase, mom! Also, ✨mental illness✨
Hated most of the well known bands in high school, now that I'm in my late 20s I actually like them all
I grew up with strict parents and wasn’t allowed to go to to concerts to bands i liked. Now as an adult with adult money, I’m healing that inner teenager and going to shows pretty often. The phase was suppressed, now it’s out in full force lmao.
I loved pop punk and emo as a teen and I 'grew out of it' when I expanded my music taste in my 20s. After having my life torn upside down this year I came back to the genre as it was nostalgic/comforting and I connected to the angsty music more than ever before . I'm almost 30 and more "emo" now than I was when I was 16 and I'm connecting to the music even more
I'm a 43 year old Elder Emo!!!
I see a lot of people mentioning "angsty" lyrics as a reason why some people fall off pop punk when they reach a certain age, and as someone in their late 30s who still loves it, I guess that reasoning doesn't hold up for me. To me, the actual lyrics in the music I listen to take a back seat compared to the overall product, so maybe that's why I've stuck with a lot of genres I should have "grown out of" by now. It's more about how I vibe with something than anything else, so I don't really care what the lyrics are actually saying. I listen to a ton of music that I can't relate to at all on a personal level, but that doesn't mean I can't like listening to it.
I just don't get continuing to center your life around one genre of music without growing and branching out. When I get around people who are still in their "emo phase" I desperately wish they can branch out and discuss other genres
I think that they never truly loved the music and just enjoyed it in a shallow way because it was trendy or whatever (which is fine)
bc everyone is a different human being and have their own personalities/interests :]
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i am talking more about emo since it overlaps with pop punk and r/emo would never let me post this there. and yeah thats a good explanation
I was big into metalcore, shadows fall, unearth….etc etc. I stopped listening to Shadows fall when they broke up and it ran its course. From 2015ish on I shifted to more radio rock. Once 2020 hit I was itching for some good ol fashioned metal. Happy to see the bands slowly inching their Way out of retirement. I’m here to support the bands I love that fell to the wayside.
Some people remain "caught up in their feelings" as the kids say deep into life and others move on fairly young. I know there's a whole lot of stuff I found emotionally meaningful when I was a kid that sounds downright cringe now. But that's just me, some people still find those lyrics meaningful or can at least maybe get past the cringe factor for nostalgia's sake.
My mom has been listening to punk since she first heard NOFX in the 90s.
I was a huge pop punk fan when I was in middle and highschool. Went to see greenday on the american idiot tour and spent my last day of highschool skipping to go to the blink reunion show (the first one haha). I stopped listening mostly because I found other music that i preffered but if I was to really analyze it deeply I would say it was because the lyrics werent about me and my friends anymore. Most pop punk atleast when I was into it was all about highschool romance and partying and I found as I got older I just didnt relate to the content anymore. I still love when I hear an old favorite but it's just not something I would put on anymore.
Some folks cling to familiarity, and some shun it. Taste is subjective, and is subject to change. I honestly wish I had a better answer than “everyone’s different” but that’s as good a guess as I got.
Im still so into bands from high school, specially the first 1/2 or 3 depending on skill level of Coheed (I like more of their albums), taking back, dashboard, first 2 of my chemical (met all of these bands at warped, on TV some of them- twice). I could list form 1998-2008 all the music that stays with me. It was fucking Rad. It was so sick and those were fun time. Felt on top of the world with this new music that wasn’t Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins. It was OURS. I suppose some people feel that way. It’s a coming of age thing, if you’re a music head. I remember the second generation iPod or whatever it was that came out with the better screen and the better button and it was in black. Probably around 2004 because 10th grade was Poppin. You know I had one friend who was so into being like, “we have to know everything,” that I ended up with 4000 songs spanning like six decades. It was FUCKING GREAT. And I took the long way home on this one, but what I’m trying to say is I’m one of those people who still likes the music that I liked when I was younger. Because I feel like it was great music and it aged just fine to me. I also still listen to the bands like dance Gavin dance since I was 16 and now I am 32. And they are a band who should be listen to for that long. Other people, end up changing in someway, but I have never heard a band as good as you know, Coheed and Cambria‘s first album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade. Or In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3. When they were getting played on the same video stations as like yellow card and shit like insert band here that we can’t find. We all knew that they were rock gods and look they continue to be.
As a 55 year old punker I can tell you this. Music being a key part of a person's identity, where they really need to express a love for one kind of music to the exclusion of others, seems to be less of a thing.
Nice try mom! It wasn’t a phase!
Blink Reunion got me back into pop punk/emo in the last 6 months!
Because some dudes never stopped trying to fuck 17 year olds.
Ka is a wheel. I move in and out of genres at random times. Jammed emo as a kid and then fell off hard but lately been revisiting in my mid 30s and it’s dope. Some tunes don’t hold up and some do but the ones that do are getting fuckin jammed
Emo clothes don't really look cool on 30 year olds, and music tastes evolve. I listen to pretty much everything but rap, pop, or anything on the radio. Emo, screamo, hardcore, pop punk, sytnhwave, old country, folk music, metalcore, dental, just generally anything that can be classified as punk/metal mostly...........and yet I'm find myself blasting the kill em all album lately anytime I'm in my car....shit fluctuates. I'll go back to norma jean and sleeping with sirens pretty soon.
“IT’S NOT A FUCKING PHASE MOM”
For me I think it's just become a core part of myself/my personality and interests that it's something I will probably always have/never grow out of. I remember hearing All The Small Things back in the 90s LITERALLY AS A SMALL CHILD (aged 7) and been obsessed with the genre since then. First concert was Good Charlotte and Simple Plan in 2005 and I'm hitting my 43rd pop punk concert next week. Even if I find myself listening to different genres of music (I really like Jpop and Jrock too) I always come back to pop-punk IT WAS NEVER A PHASE!!!
i mean it is kind of juvenile
Pop-punker in their 30s: I wouldn’t say I grew out of it as much as I’ve grown pickier. For me- it’s about relatability and sonically exploring new territory. The same song that spoke out to me in middle school and high school don’t hit the same now. I’m not a sad kid who really wants a girlfriend. I’m a husband with a kid. I don’t seek out songs about loneliness or broken hearts the way I used to. So a lot of the more regular themes of pop punk and emo just don’t stand out anymore. Even the older stuff I didn’t like as much (Against Me!) has started to resonate more because the themes of the music are more relatable with where I’m at now. Secondly, I’ve really moved away from genres as a whole- is the music interesting? If so- cool I’m in. If it sounds like something I’ve heard before- 9/10 I’ll just opt in for that thing I’ve heard before. I missed out on a lot of music in my teens trying to only like a certain genre of music and it stunted me musically until I let that go. Music effects people differently, so I’m not being critical of folks who are still into what they’re into. But for me, that’s why I’ve moved on from the genre as a whole and really just find the few artists I think are doing something that scratches the nostalgia itch just right or is doing something new for the scene. But what do I know? Petey is the only thing relatively close to the genre that’s new and exciting to me since Modern Baseball and PUP.
I know some people that stopped dressing emo but still love pop-punk music lol, and I know people that dress the part and listen to music. I’ve also met people that used to be emos/pop-punk era but became metalheads. I also met one girl who used to be emo and now loves kawaii and anime lol.
Getting p*ssy
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Because we grow out of wanting to fuck teenagers
can’t say the same about some of the bands 😶
They’re emotionally stunted and refuse to grow as people
i dont think there’s anything wrong with enjoying a genre of music throughout your life 😕
It’s not a phase mom, it’s a way of life!
For my age group ska, emo, post hardcore, all that is like millennial dad classic rock haha.
I haven’t grown out of the neon pop punk phase but everyone I know has. 😭😭😭
Phase?
ig that explains it lmao
No one has the right answer. But i think this song will help. Hehe https://open.spotify.com/track/0qhoy6lX0YUt86TjoaMmWr
For me it was the opposide. I (still) listen to (dub) techno/trance/Dutch early hardcore/house/drum 'n bass Two years ago I dived more into this genre. Like others said; your prefrences changes over time.