As a big fan of music, I am going to relate this weeks blog to music again. This time I’m going to discuss the pop punk scene, which came bursting onto the scene about 10 years ago, so here is the question I pose to you, what came first, the celebrity or the culture? It is really one of those chicken/egg questions again, you could spend countless hours arguing with someone about what you think came first only to have it go nowhere, so I’m not picking a side, I want you all to tell me your thoughts after reading.
To have a celebrity burst into popularity from nowhere, you would have to consider that there was already a scene in the first place for them to come bursting into? If there is no market, why would a label sign them? But was the culture always there? Or has it, do you think, simply evolved from another culture? The scene has started again? And how does the culture begin if there is no celebrity there to be influenced by?
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at punk pop as an example, rock to hardcore, to death metal, to goth,
to punk rock, to pop punk, to emo, to indie? This is highly debated
lineage, I spent hours googling, and only ended more confused.Another option is that the culture has always been present, as with punk culture which is said to have been present since the Ramones in the 1960’s, but then, were the Ramones the first band out? Or was the culture already there, hidden away in some other unknown band?
So what came first guys, the celebrity or the culture? The chicken or the Egg?
