Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, Cobra Starship, The Maine, Mayday Parade, Metro Station, Big City Kids, All Time Low, Hellogoodbye, you are all dismissed, and any band who sounds like you, looks like you, or wants to be like you.

There was a time when music meant something, not that there aren’t bands now who are amazing, this every growing popular scene must die. I used to look through the pages of Alternative Press and other zines when I was in High School and would be inspired to go out and pick up an album from Jawbreaker or check out Botch. Now, pick up Alternative Press and every photo is either a picture of Fall Out Boy or one of their many clones. Look on the internet and every band looks the same sounds the same, and look like the members all had the same mothers. There was a point when we were not inundated with colorful candy pop rock bands who all wear the same hoodies and loud t-shirts. It is like all of these bands cater to the same sort of kids and girls that N’Sync and the Backstreet Boys also catered to.

The first time we really began experiencing these national scenester bands and teenage groupies was when Blink-182 hit the scene in 98. Dozens of rip off bands with similar looks appeared, kids began dressing like them across the country.

There have always been other scenes across the country, but they were smaller, they were not mainstream, and they were not every where you looked. And never the “COOL” thing to do for 11 year olds all the way to 22 year olds.

Scene bands you are dismissed, this also goes for all those awesome hardcore and screamo bands that we hate so much.

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