This particular cadence of pop-punk songs

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"It's alright [pause] to tell me [pause] what you think [pause] about me [pause] i won't try [pause] to argue..."

WHY DOES EVERY CRAPPY "PUNK" BAND HAVE 90% OF THEIR SONGS SOUND LIKE THIS?

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Her boyfriend, [pause]
he don't know [pause]
anything about her [pause]
he's too stoned, [pause]
Nintendo [pause]

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

They've all been writing the same songs as each other since they were all 12 years old. It's "tradition", man. So what if some of 'em are in their 30s now?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Blink 1(pause)
8-2(pause)
work sux(pause)
U2(pause)

(I don't know the words .. sorry .. but yeah... )

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

that is part of what makes this music good u hataz

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm more annoyed by the groups who do a verse really thuddingly and slow after the solo or second chorus. It's like the opposite of El Scorcho. You're supposed to speed up!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

These songs all have a part where every line begins is like:

"[S]he blah blah, blah blah blah
[S]he blah blah, blaaaaaaaaaaaaaah-ah
[S]he blah, [S]he blah, blah blah blah!
[loud stop/start guitar part with shouted vocals during parts where guitar stops]"

For an alternate version replace he/she with "you"

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Long ago [pause] life was clean [pause]
sex was bad [pause] and obscene [pause]
and the rich [pause] were so mean [pause]
stately homes [pause] for the lords [pause]
croquet lawns [pause] village greens [pause]
victoria [pause] was our queen

― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 19 December 2002 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

haha adam u rool!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 19 December 2002 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Blink 182 really started it but its been a trend I think going back to cali hardcore where things were shouted so loud and fast you had to pause to catch your breath -- "singing" was like an athletic workout. So it gets reinjected with slower melodicism and this comes with it. Then blink took it to a whole new level beginning to build structure in its songs through resolution of temporal continuity as well as harmonic -- i.e. the tension isn't minor-minor-major but pause-pause-uninterrupted chorus.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 19 December 2002 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

in the kinks case, those aren't pauses, they are extended syllables.

― gygax!, Thursday, 19 December 2002 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

What really annoys me is repeating the same lyrics twice in the bridge (e.g., Linkin Park - "In The End," Puddle of Mudd - "Blurry," etc.)

I guess that's more of a nu-metal thing though.

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

those pauses can be useful for doing a twiddly guitar bit that would be otherwise too hard to sing & play at the same time..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 20 December 2002 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

Not cadence but

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/i-made-a-linguistics-professor-listen-to-a-blink-182-song-and-analyze-the-accent

― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 18 June 2015 17:53 (ten years ago)

Blink 182's "I Miss You": Is it "the voice inside my head" or "the voice inside my yed"?

― example (crüt), Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:10 (ten years ago)

we are overdue the 'rapping in a pop-punk cadence' thread

― tpp, Thursday, 18 June 2015 18:21 (ten years ago)

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