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Originally Posted by hooligan_E84
Sub-cultures, like skateboarders or metalheads have always been very protective of the things they perceive as belonging to them.
You should have heard all the west coast punk kids melting down when Green Day got popular!
It happens, and understandably so. The same dynamic drives the opposition to "cultural appropriation", honestly.
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Yeah.....Green Day is/was "punk" music (but not really) for people who need radio stations or music execs to tell them what to listen to. Green Day or their fan base didn't really get any love. DRI, Black Flag, JFA, Bad Brains, etc. are the what the rest of us listened to......and some Back Street Boys.
Green Day is equivalent to Blink 182. There was no faster way to get ostracized in the subculture scene by listening to these guys. They were marketable though, obviously.