5SOS BOYBAND OR POP PUNK BAND?

The problem with 5SOS is that they toe the line between punk band and boy band so well that everybody from Alternative Press to the Guardian is arguing about which they actually are. 

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/is-there-really-a-difference-between-pop-punk-bands-and-boybands

POP PUNK HISTORY //

Much of punk rock mutated in the 1980's into hardcore, a harder, faster, and less melodic form of punk.
Other punk musicians headed in the opposite direction toward the synth-heavy, danceable pop that dominated the pop music world in the early 1980's.
By the late 1980's, a new form of punk began to emerge with a hard and fast guitar and drums base but powered by pop melodies like much of 70's punk rock.
California-based independent record label Lookout! helped spearhead this development.

A group of California-based bands, often referred to as the first wave of punk pop, began to succeed commercially in the wake of the mass success of grunge rock in the early 1990's.
Among these bands were Green Day, who originally recorded for Lookout! Records, and Rancid.
Green Day moved to major record label Reprise in 1994 and gained such commercial success with the album Dookie they were accused of being sell-outs.

A second wave of punk pop bands emerged in the late 1990's. They were led by another California-based band, blink-182. The sound of second wave bands is marked by a radio-friendly sheen to their music, but it still maintains much of the speed and attitude of classic punk rock. Other punk pop bands from around the U.S. and Canada were soon signed by major labels. These included Good Charlotte, Bowling for Soup, and Sum 41.



http://top40.about.com/od/popmusic101/p/punkpop.htm

POP PUNK BANDS

This article talks about big pop punk bands covering other band.

ALL TIME LOW COVERING BLINK 182'S DAMMIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu_BhELORIw&safe=active

http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/13_pop_punk_bands_covering_other_pop_punk_bands

Biggest eras of pop punk music //

http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/the_5_great_eras_of_pop_punk_from_the_70s_to_today

Mainstream peak of pop punk music was in the late 90s with Blink 182
This article talks about the biggest eras of pop punk music from the 70s

5 Seconds Of Summer are important to pop punk music genre

http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/why_5_seconds_of_summer_are_more_important_to_pop_punk_than_you_think

POP PUNK STRING THEORY

Top 10 punk bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcCQsJ_Z3-E

Bad Religion is a band that combined their love with the ramones, the sex pistols and the clash with their interest in black flag.
The sex pistols they kick started the genre and made the genre mainstream. Main influence of pop punk bands.
The Ramones: original, artistic vision and minimalist fashion sense.

GREEN DAY 'Dookie' album documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOXZ0b7r870

Dookie was released in 1994 and has sold over 11 million copies worldwide, it was the first time that pop punk went mainstream.

YouTube documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lojiLhiZ13k

'Pop punk music has been around for a while but does not have a date of birth, the latest it could have been recorded is the mid to late 1970s with the band called Ramones' - Ramones creaters of pop punk music
Bad Religion helped and formed the ground work of pop punk -1979 when they formed together there was a massive hardcore punk scene in California.
The Majority of pop punk bands originated in California.
Other hardcore bands soon started implementing pop punk styles into their music like a day to remember
Pop punks not dead tour is a concert tour that is headlined by new found glory.
Radio stations constantly playing pop punk music on the radio making it more mainstream.

Lastest pop punk bands

Are 5 Seconds of Summer considered a pop punk band?
'Aesthetically and sonically inspired by the pop punk of the early 00s – from the juvenile, Jackass rebellion of Blink 182, to Good Charlotte's slick sounding anti-everything anthems, and Busted and McFly's cartoon goofiness – 5SOS's intention is to entertain, not inform.' 
5 Seconds of Summer are considered a boyband mainly because they have toured with one direction not because of their music genre. 
5sos are also could be said that they are a pop punk band because of their musical influences
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/10/5-seconds-of-summer-pop-punk-band-one-direction-youtube

Harvard Referencing System // The Rough Guide To Rock //

The rough guide to Rock Editor - Peter Buckley (October 2003) Third Edition, The penguin group NIRVANA (Formed in 1986; disbanded in 1994)'They took a hard-headed punk influences stance and fused it to a more mainstream hard rock sound' - Essi Berlian SEX PISTOLS (Formed in 1975; disbanded 1978) GREEN DAY (Formed in 1990) BLINK-182 (Formed in 1992)

http://www.thetoptens.com/best-pop-punk-bands/

This website shows the most popular pop punk bands, it also has comments from other users of this website so it shows the popularity of pop punk music.

Blink 182 are a very popular pop punk band. When they first started out people called them a boyband but as time progressed people then realized that they are not a boy band and that they are musicians who express their musical talent as a BAND.

My initial ideas for my extended project was either based on Football or on a music genre. My idea based on football was to be around Arsenal F.C or international football e.g - Primeira Liga in Portugal. This is because I've been interested in football from a young age. After thinking for a while and talking with my tutor I wanted to base it on the pop punk genre.