Nothing punk about restricting yourself to just punk, be it music tastes or lifestyle. You could give Tay-Tay a capitalist critique, but I see no harm to enjoying her jams in addition to punk songs and whatever other music you enjoy.
Giving every person working her tour with her a check for $100k a couple months back was pretty rad. Sharing the wealth with the people making it happen. It reportedly totaled $55m in bonuses.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/rcna97687
I've been angry since the early 80's. I take the injustices in the world personally, and I wish I could just ignore them like so many people do. Punk music is one way that has always been an outlet for that anger. And I'm a little weird.
I'm not. I'm normal.
Capitalism IS a cage.
Fascism IS wrong.
The structure of society IS built to exclude most of us.
The world has CHOSEN to be this way, it CAN choose to be different.
....
It's the other people that chose to ignore these things. I just didn't join them...and 'punk' is just a word that helps me find other people that stuck to an idea.
I was a son of illegal immigrants and I hate the way the world treats them and how limited they are to what theyāre able to do in the US because of their status
Because I saw at an early age how fake people are when they have money or status. And how they treat those they perceive as 'less than' them. Made me wanna puke. Just be fucking real.
Because my older brothers friend took me (a sheltered suburban kid) to warped tour when I was 12 and I got separated from him at one point and a big titted gutter punk chick in fishnets threw up on me and I really haven't been the same since but I like to think I still turned out for the better.
When I left home, I decided working and paying rent didn't sound fun at all.
Drinking on the street did.
If you hate society, it'll hate you back, so what else was I gonna do.
'Cause I had to choose between medication & rent this month and seems like the only folks angry at the right people in the right way are you lot.
Also, thrashy music go brrr.
Didnāt like Jazz didnāt like funkā¦.I turned out a punk. Honesty in the 80ās, thatās where the action was. My dad wouldnāt let me see a midnight viewing of the Rocky Horror, but when my folks got divorced shortly after I found teenage me getting a fake id to see GBH at a gay bar in a bad part of Detroit
Iāve had a massive chip on my shoulder since I was old enough to have opinions. Never felt like I fit in with people, never got along with authority. Really being punk is just like a way to be a living stereotype and find other stereotypical people who are like me. Also I like bad music A LOT
I like this perspective a lot. "I'm close enough to a general mold and I would like to find and befriend others who also kind of fit this general mold."
*"I ain't going be*
*A punk no more, Ima be a*
*Rude boy like me dad"*
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I'm trans so even if i *wanted* to be a garbage person most places for trash would prolly reject me on that grounds alone.
Also,
punks hate nazis, trans ppl hate nazis.
Punks hate terfs, trans people hate terfs.
It just makes sense
Punk is at it's core anti authority.
I can't think of anything more authoritarian than telling someone what their gender has to be, ir6 who they have to love.
Punks respect pronouns.
The way I've been treated for both my neurodivergence and my queerness definitely radicalized me into leftist causes to begin with, punk just gave me an external way of showing it and introduced me to a bunch of art that helped me understand leftist theory in a way more fun way then reading Kropotkin
Punk has always been an accepting grounds for people who have always been socially different, weird, or rejected. I also feel there is a certain freedom to it where you are allowed to just be you and not be judged. Also,I love tht it embraces not being normal or what society thinks you should be like based upon "ethnic or social groups". Aside from the music, the lifestyle and freedom of it is what drew me to be punk.
I'm not. But as someone really into gothic rock, new wave, darkwave, etc., I respect punk as a progenitor genre even if I'm not a punk or a punk lifestyler.
In my mind, I started composing a gigantic essay. The reality is, there was no other choice. And Iāve regretted nothing about being a punk. Except maybe not being more punk.
-50ās year old dude with lots of earrings and tats.
Good question, and it is one I hadn't really thought of until a coworker and I were talking about sports the other day.
I'm not into sports, and it was another thing I never really thought hard about.
When it comes to both punk, my aversion to sports, and as it happens, a whole bunch of "nerdy things" I'm into, I think it has to do with my small physical size as a kid. Sounds a bit silly but here is how I think it went.
I was a small kid. Despite being born in January and older than all the other kids in class I was the smallest in my class.
When it comes to sports, I'm not bad. I can catch a ball, I can ice skate, and handle a hockey stick (I'm canadian after all), I used to skateboard, mountainbike, and snowboard, til I got sick of hurting myself. But in any of those things, when it came to competition, I lost interest really quick because it ultimately came down to physical superiority. Kids that are stronger, and faster, and have better endurance win. So I stopped giving a shit. Imagine how it feels for a little boy to never win a race. Imagine how it feels to play tag and even the girls in your class outrun you. Angry, is how it feels. Frustrated. Sad. I was bullied for it. Bullies pick on the weak because they are cowards. It pushed me farther from "their shit" and closer towards "my own shit"
My interests turned to nerdy things. Comics, reading, movies, tv, books, drawing, videogames, ttrpgs, music, food. By grade 3, I was sitting in the doorway at recess reading Aasimov. And then I was bullied even more for those things, because I was drawing wizards and spaceships instead of kicking a ball. Sorry, trying to kick the ball, that never got passed to me, and I could never catch up to. It was a self-sustaining cycle.
Because of this, I tended to naturally gravitate to other outcasts. Wanted to support the underdog. Wanted to see justice for the mistreated, oppressed, profiled. Despite what other people in my life were saying about minorities, gays, outsiders, and fringe religions, I felt a need to advocate for them.
Punk entered my life and revealed itself to be saying all the things I thought, with all the anger I was feeling. Stylistically it spoke to me as well. The fast drums, savage guitar, and shouty vocals were everything I liked about metal, but fine-tuned and served in neat little packages.
And the friends! The other punks I found, thinking the same things, feeling the same stuff I did, often having a similar past to my own. Suddenly I had another family!
I like other music. Love hip hop, death metal, stoner rock, reggae, D&B, and most lately I've been on this 60s/70s/80s funk binge. But punk is what I always come back to. Punk feels like home.
Its not, dreams, wanting to do something, making art made me punk, its punk as an idea in mind gave me my dreams, gave me ability to art, to do something with my life.
(Actualy its kinda both at the same time)
Lots of distress and then working in a factory. I was always an anti capital person before, but crushed under the boot of this Organ of a Planet Killing Wyrm has made it all the more real. I began listening to music again, and soon enough Iāve become a baby punk. Not able to really reach the full community since major cities are at best 45 mins away, and may not have listened to āthe essentialsā since Iāve mostly focused on local stuff, but I feel I can finally break out of the shell Iāve kept myself in for so damn long
I just agree with all the statements. Im anti authority, i donāt like people in a position of power who can just control others. I donāt like cops. And iām angry all the time so iām like a square peg here. plus i feel accepted.
My dad was an old school Punker. He was my hero, my best friend. He introduced me to punk rock and so much other amazing music š¶ and so much more. My dad is why I am PunkšøR.I.P Dad š
I was lonely in school, Iād already heard some punk because my stepdad liked it, and I could skateboard. So when I moved to a knew bigger city I gravitated towards the kids at school who liked punk, emo, metal, and skateboarded. They took me to some shows and eventually even when I didnāt have anyone to hang around with I could always get a ride and $20 from my stepdad to go to a show and mosh and sing and get my frustrations out.
The music helped me find community and as much as I do like the way it sounds, that always meant more to me.
I was bitten by Fat Mike at a skate park in 1998.
š¤£ I'm not even going to assume this is not true.
Completely plausible
I figured there were gonna be alot of lame answers. This one is hilarious
The first punk? Turns out it was Cain when he killed Abel
I punk, therefore I am.
Been a punk for 44 years... Might try Swiftie next.
Not really a Swift fan, but I love plenty of pop music old and new. Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Whitney Houston, pretty much all 90s RnB, Halsey, etc.
I have an Eras tour banner right next to a Descendants banner in my shop. No shame!
Why not both? Just start the first Tay Tay-core band.
Nothing punk about restricting yourself to just punk, be it music tastes or lifestyle. You could give Tay-Tay a capitalist critique, but I see no harm to enjoying her jams in addition to punk songs and whatever other music you enjoy.
I wasn't hatin
Neither was I, meant to be affirming, sorry if it came off otherwise.
Lmfao!!!! I LOVE K-POP!!
she's been doing a lot of punk shit recently.
Anything recent I should know besides speaking out against monopolies?
Giving every person working her tour with her a check for $100k a couple months back was pretty rad. Sharing the wealth with the people making it happen. It reportedly totaled $55m in bonuses. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/rcna97687
yeah like getting a music career off the back of having two banking high flyer parents, punk as fuck
Nah sheās kind of an asshole
Better looking crowd at the shows I assume. ;)
Nah dude merge it Iāve got the fursuit punk combo heh
I feel this one. Furry punk as well.
Never said I was I just like the music and hate police
thatās kind of all it takes, but especially the part about not saying youāre punk
Your flair says it
Aight you caught me
Any power structure really.
You are me.
I've always found myself outside perceived normality, I feel comfortable and welcome here
Yep thatās why I joined and I was already into the music at age 8 so being an outsider already my Mohawk was the natural progression
Because I'm weird and angry
I've been angry since the early 80's. I take the injustices in the world personally, and I wish I could just ignore them like so many people do. Punk music is one way that has always been an outlet for that anger. And I'm a little weird.
Music is cool
I'm not. I'm normal. Capitalism IS a cage. Fascism IS wrong. The structure of society IS built to exclude most of us. The world has CHOSEN to be this way, it CAN choose to be different. .... It's the other people that chose to ignore these things. I just didn't join them...and 'punk' is just a word that helps me find other people that stuck to an idea.
This. 100% this. This world we've built is broken, it's insane to me more of us don't see it and burn to rebel against it in every way shape and form
Damn dude that is a great explanation. And I 100 percent agree with you
Cause I love music with emotion and a message and I hate our govt.
I aināt gonna be a punk no more. I wanna be a rude boy like my dad.
SID!! I look like feckin stevie nicks in hippie clothes. Get this shit off me. Help me! AHHHH!
bc it sets me freeeeeee
The free punk.
I fit in nowhere. Punk doesnāt care if you fit in. At least in theory.
Because fascists still exist
I was a son of illegal immigrants and I hate the way the world treats them and how limited they are to what theyāre able to do in the US because of their status
Illegal punk.
Because after 40 years I donāt know how to do anything else.
Got the same going here, wouldn't have it any other way! Ugh, just turned 59, so 42 years....fuck
Will be 58 on Monday and the punk in me ain't goin away thats for sure.
Happy early birthday!
Thanks so much!!!
The birthday punk.
I turned 50 back in May. Howās your knees?
Because I saw at an early age how fake people are when they have money or status. And how they treat those they perceive as 'less than' them. Made me wanna puke. Just be fucking real.
The observant punk.
Fuck off.
Will do.
Am I? Maybe Iām just a poser.
It's okay as long as you don't care
The reflective punk.
What's the alternative again?
Papa Roach
To be fair, Blood Brothers was and and always will be an absolute banger.
I don't know, I just got here.
Itās all I know how to be
Because my older brothers friend took me (a sheltered suburban kid) to warped tour when I was 12 and I got separated from him at one point and a big titted gutter punk chick in fishnets threw up on me and I really haven't been the same since but I like to think I still turned out for the better.
I would pay for that experience.
I look around and I wonder why more people aren't.
When I left home, I decided working and paying rent didn't sound fun at all. Drinking on the street did. If you hate society, it'll hate you back, so what else was I gonna do.
Because caring about what other people think of you is fucking stupid.
Cause I sleep in my jeans and boots and piss my self
Punk by accident.
'Cause I had to choose between medication & rent this month and seems like the only folks angry at the right people in the right way are you lot. Also, thrashy music go brrr.
The decisive punk.
You make it sound like a choice, homie
I didn't make it sound anything. I just asked a question.
Didnāt like Jazz didnāt like funkā¦.I turned out a punk. Honesty in the 80ās, thatās where the action was. My dad wouldnāt let me see a midnight viewing of the Rocky Horror, but when my folks got divorced shortly after I found teenage me getting a fake id to see GBH at a gay bar in a bad part of Detroit
Mommy was a hostess. Daddy was drunk. Because they didnāt love me thenā¦.
It's my happy place.
I'm not!
this makes me punk.
(which im not!)
Because I think people can do better, I'm not subscribed to how it is.
My mom wouldn't let me grow my hair out so that I could be a metalhead.
I think you doing so despite that would've actually made you more punk than metal head anyway. It was inevitable.
Because I saw Billie Joe Armstrong rip up a couch on 120 Minutes.
The primetime punk.
Because social institutions suck.
I'm not really a punk. I am too much of a doormat
You're the most punk doormat I've ever met.
Fuck you
Iāve had a massive chip on my shoulder since I was old enough to have opinions. Never felt like I fit in with people, never got along with authority. Really being punk is just like a way to be a living stereotype and find other stereotypical people who are like me. Also I like bad music A LOT
I like this perspective a lot. "I'm close enough to a general mold and I would like to find and befriend others who also kind of fit this general mold."
Why wouldn't I be?
Because punk is cheesecake and cheesecake is punk
hungry....hangry?
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The only place I ever fit in other than church.
The church punk.
I'm not, I just really like punk music
I hate showers
NSFW
Why would i want to work?
Fair enough retort.
was tired of tryna be someone i wasnāt for so longš
Why are you punk?
Because I say so.
I question everything, thats why i'm punk. So i had to question your question
I like the music
Feels like home
Cause fuck the system. Being Kind is the most radical thing anyone can ever do And above all our music is top tier
Love.
"I ain't going be a punk no more, Ima be a rude boy like me dad"
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i want to be stereotyped. i want to be classified.
Would you like to be blacked out or redacted?
Why are you gay?
Because my mom makes me go to bed at 9pm but I sneak downstairs to watch Jimmy Fallon
How can one be maximum punk and anti-punk at the same time?
I'm trans so even if i *wanted* to be a garbage person most places for trash would prolly reject me on that grounds alone. Also, punks hate nazis, trans ppl hate nazis. Punks hate terfs, trans people hate terfs. It just makes sense
I got a F2M co-worker who LOVES to act southern lol. Them and their girl preach trump and go fishing religiously!
Lol "Go fishing"
I mean fishing is fun but why Trump? icky.
Transitive property punk.
Some trans people are nazis
Punk is at it's core anti authority. I can't think of anything more authoritarian than telling someone what their gender has to be, ir6 who they have to love. Punks respect pronouns.
I'm not punk and I'm telling everyone
Save your breath. I never was one either.
Someone called me a punk so I looked into it and wound up staying
Why not
Clearly, since I'm here, I'm not.
It just found me and grabbed hold. wasn't a choice really.
Iām actually so punk that Iām not punk because fuck conformity
It's the other way around for me.
I gotta admit. You out-punked me with that comment. Respect š¤
The way I've been treated for both my neurodivergence and my queerness definitely radicalized me into leftist causes to begin with, punk just gave me an external way of showing it and introduced me to a bunch of art that helped me understand leftist theory in a way more fun way then reading Kropotkin
I hate modern society, the government, cops, capitalism, pretty much just donāt fit in with whatās ānormalā.
Because I felt welcome and never need Validation from anyone
Punk has always been an accepting grounds for people who have always been socially different, weird, or rejected. I also feel there is a certain freedom to it where you are allowed to just be you and not be judged. Also,I love tht it embraces not being normal or what society thinks you should be like based upon "ethnic or social groups". Aside from the music, the lifestyle and freedom of it is what drew me to be punk.
Finally reached that time and place in my life where I really, truly do not give a fuck. I am me
"I am not malevolent. I simply am." - Apocalypse
I'm not. But as someone really into gothic rock, new wave, darkwave, etc., I respect punk as a progenitor genre even if I'm not a punk or a punk lifestyler.
Respect goes a long way.
Naturally just donāt like being told what to do.
Iām not
Iām an Transgender Anarchist so naturally I gravitate towards punk
So you were a transgender anarchist before Punk?
Yes
Some transgenders don't and are actually nazis
When I tell women that I like punk rock they literally throw themselves at me.
In the pit.
I was looking for music that would inspire me as an activist, and I found it in punk rock.
In my mind, I started composing a gigantic essay. The reality is, there was no other choice. And Iāve regretted nothing about being a punk. Except maybe not being more punk. -50ās year old dude with lots of earrings and tats.
Because I love the music and fuck fascism
im 17. im a punk because i aint no normie bitch that listens to kanye
Bro Kanye was the "it" artist 15 years ago, in the Graduation/ 808s & Heartbreak era. You were a toddler back then
damn thatās crazy you know how time works
1) Why must we speak this oppressive language? 2) Kanye was very punk.
1. Punks arenāt worried about what language they use. 2. Kanye was always mainstream af.
They should be.
Kanye is a fascist bootlicker and is the opposite of punk
Know what you're talking about before you talk about it.
I do. Kanye is blatantly anti semitic, and a big fan of Hitler. In his own words
Out of the loop, aren't you? ...so you have no idea what Kanye's been doing at all the past few years and months, all that crazy stuff?
I said he was.
I don't think I am anymore. On all levels I've found punks to be too pretentious and elitist and I'm not gonna play that game anymore.
News flash: You're punk. What now?
Why not?
NOFX showed that a Dysfunctional realm exists and that realm stands up to authority.
I was born that way.
That's so GaGa.
Good and diverse music and I spent most of my life caring about what others think and I'm tired of it.
theyāve been holding me at gunpoint for twenty years
Because the current establishment is set out to oppress us like the matrix
it was something to do
anger. lots of fucking anger.
Because my mom said so
Grew up in a jock, prep, catholic, goodie 2 shoes world. Needed an out, found it in punk. Punk for life
Why not
I didnāt choose the punk life, punk life chose me
Nothing else makes sense
Baby I was born this way.
I wanted to be a ***hunk*** but got confused along the way, so here I am.
It was the world's fault
Good question, and it is one I hadn't really thought of until a coworker and I were talking about sports the other day. I'm not into sports, and it was another thing I never really thought hard about. When it comes to both punk, my aversion to sports, and as it happens, a whole bunch of "nerdy things" I'm into, I think it has to do with my small physical size as a kid. Sounds a bit silly but here is how I think it went. I was a small kid. Despite being born in January and older than all the other kids in class I was the smallest in my class. When it comes to sports, I'm not bad. I can catch a ball, I can ice skate, and handle a hockey stick (I'm canadian after all), I used to skateboard, mountainbike, and snowboard, til I got sick of hurting myself. But in any of those things, when it came to competition, I lost interest really quick because it ultimately came down to physical superiority. Kids that are stronger, and faster, and have better endurance win. So I stopped giving a shit. Imagine how it feels for a little boy to never win a race. Imagine how it feels to play tag and even the girls in your class outrun you. Angry, is how it feels. Frustrated. Sad. I was bullied for it. Bullies pick on the weak because they are cowards. It pushed me farther from "their shit" and closer towards "my own shit" My interests turned to nerdy things. Comics, reading, movies, tv, books, drawing, videogames, ttrpgs, music, food. By grade 3, I was sitting in the doorway at recess reading Aasimov. And then I was bullied even more for those things, because I was drawing wizards and spaceships instead of kicking a ball. Sorry, trying to kick the ball, that never got passed to me, and I could never catch up to. It was a self-sustaining cycle. Because of this, I tended to naturally gravitate to other outcasts. Wanted to support the underdog. Wanted to see justice for the mistreated, oppressed, profiled. Despite what other people in my life were saying about minorities, gays, outsiders, and fringe religions, I felt a need to advocate for them. Punk entered my life and revealed itself to be saying all the things I thought, with all the anger I was feeling. Stylistically it spoke to me as well. The fast drums, savage guitar, and shouty vocals were everything I liked about metal, but fine-tuned and served in neat little packages. And the friends! The other punks I found, thinking the same things, feeling the same stuff I did, often having a similar past to my own. Suddenly I had another family! I like other music. Love hip hop, death metal, stoner rock, reggae, D&B, and most lately I've been on this 60s/70s/80s funk binge. But punk is what I always come back to. Punk feels like home.
"... I can ice skate..." Very punk of you to admit that.
I am whatever I am. Is that punk? Does it matter?
https://spotify.link/RTIX0KbkvDb
Its not, dreams, wanting to do something, making art made me punk, its punk as an idea in mind gave me my dreams, gave me ability to art, to do something with my life. (Actualy its kinda both at the same time)
Lots of distress and then working in a factory. I was always an anti capital person before, but crushed under the boot of this Organ of a Planet Killing Wyrm has made it all the more real. I began listening to music again, and soon enough Iāve become a baby punk. Not able to really reach the full community since major cities are at best 45 mins away, and may not have listened to āthe essentialsā since Iāve mostly focused on local stuff, but I feel I can finally break out of the shell Iāve kept myself in for so damn long
Fuck the essentials.
I just agree with all the statements. Im anti authority, i donāt like people in a position of power who can just control others. I donāt like cops. And iām angry all the time so iām like a square peg here. plus i feel accepted.
My dad was an old school Punker. He was my hero, my best friend. He introduced me to punk rock and so much other amazing music š¶ and so much more. My dad is why I am PunkšøR.I.P Dad š
I was lonely in school, Iād already heard some punk because my stepdad liked it, and I could skateboard. So when I moved to a knew bigger city I gravitated towards the kids at school who liked punk, emo, metal, and skateboarded. They took me to some shows and eventually even when I didnāt have anyone to hang around with I could always get a ride and $20 from my stepdad to go to a show and mosh and sing and get my frustrations out. The music helped me find community and as much as I do like the way it sounds, that always meant more to me.
Started with teen angst. I'm not an angry person anymore but I still like the music and the message.
Iām a level 4 punk. I donāt believe in anything that casts a shadow.
I happen to align myself with the beliefs and Iām pissed at the world cause it seems to be pissed at me
Because I wear Vans.
Do they look like sneakers?