6 Reasons Why I Lost Respect For A Former Punk Rock "Hero"
I'm not naming the person because I don't believe in giving them any more free publicity, but those who have been paying attention will have no problem figuring out who I am talking about.
1. If you threaten to kick your drummer out of the band unless he stops doing drugs, while you yourself continue to do drug cocktails in front of his face on stage... you might be a Pop Punk Moron.
2. If you advertise an album as your "going sober" album, but come back just a few years later to promote your next album by essentially saying "hey I relapsed, here's a bunch of songs about myself glorifying drug abuse..." you might be a Pop Punk Moron.
3. If you write pop-punk songs but then tell an interviewer for a blog that you hate being called a "pop punk" band, you might be a Pop Punk Moron.
4. If you think that the term "pop punk" is a dirty word, but think that "melodic hardcore" isn't just as equally oxymoronic... you might be a Pop Punk Moron
5. If you force people to drive x-hundred miles to a failing city to be price gouged on artificially limited variants of vinyl records containing the same music that could normally be purchased online from the safety and comfort of their own homes... you might be a Pop Punk Moron.
6. If you glorify drug abuse in your book and claim that your doctors have always said you were (physically) healthy, and your fans follow your cues and end up doing drugs that impair their own mental health and well-being...
you might be a pathetic junkie POS who doesn't deserve a dime of my money or an ounce of my support anymore.
The only way this person earns my respect back is if his band becomes a full-on straight-edge band and actually sticks to it this time. Or if he at least comes out and admits that while the doctors may have said he was "physically" healthy, mental health and physical health are two different animals, and emphasize the fact that absolutely no one should follow such a person's lead.
Get your shit together, buddy. The community is watching.
Adding this song to the post because of the lyrical subject matter only. Green Day or any of it's members are absolutely not the target of this article.