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Originally posted by MakgSnake


As for Punk Music.......... many people here are not agreeing that the new people in music whos music is called "PUNK"...is a bad thing. But isn't it possible that PUNK music can change......I mean does it have to STAY the way it was 10 years ago?....Cant it change or translate into something new?........Rap has changed in years and so has R&B, why cant Punk be in the system we call "Evolution"..... may be its growing. Just wondering........

Well Makg, talking about Rap is one thing, and talking about Punk is another. Rap is a wider category than Punk is. Punk music is a sub-genre, and sub-genres very often depend on a peculiar period of time. Punk music is mainly a product of the 70's. In the 80's we had the New Wave, which was a sort of derivation of Punk and that also meant the "death" of the genre (like the name "new wave" itself says). Many other genres, like Goth and so on, are born thanks to New Wave and Post Punk music (which more or less were the same thing). In brief, real Punk music died with the New Wave, and this is one of the reasons you can't call nowadays music, even if it sounds like punk music, "Punk". There have been many sub-categories of punk, but anyways, as someone said, punk music is different in spirit. Dressing like Johnny Rotten is not being punk. It's being stupid