![]() ![]() Not only are there a ton of punk love songs, but some of them are really good! In part, it’s because they are a bit unexpected. Riot grrrl, peace punk and hardcore were, for the most part, too busy taking down the patriarchy/capitalism/society’s hypocrisy for romantic distractions, but emo more than made up for all of them. To be sure, love songs are more common in some punk subgenres than others. Nevertheless, there are countless love songs in punk’s grimy annals. In short, it’s not usually baby-making music. It’s often marked by a certain caustic sense humor. As a musical genre, punk music is about alienation and dysfunction, resistance, or some combination thereof. (The irresistibly ridiculous 1983 romantic comedy Valley Girl derives most of its humor from the incongruity between the tropes of the teen-romance genre and punk rock’s supposed disaffection with all things “normal.”) The idea of the punk rock love song is doubly alluring and improbable. This is because punk is almost by definition unromantic, at least in a traditional sense. ![]() The idea of “punk love” is both irresistible and ridiculous. ![]()
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