How the fuck are they so influential?

>>71916547
with the death of cobain people wanted some fun and simple music to jam to that wasn't depressing as fuck so along with green day and sum 41 they took hold of teens

>>71916588
It still doesn't explain how influential they are. There's at least 3 or 4 years between when Cobain died and when they got popular. There's also a shitton of bands that were similar to them, yet they happened to become the kingpins for pop punk

>>71916547
Because they're popular?

>>71916739
>Popular means influential

>>71916547
Catchy music and didn't take themselves seriously

same reason people liked the beatles cheesy answer but people react when groups love each other and blink was just best friends having fun and goofing 24/7

every interview was fun and a joke, every show was half banter/laughing and they never took themselves seriously but fucking loved playing together and writing fun songs. if you do that for long enough and you love it, shit works out i guess

>>71916760
You're so stupid. It's hard for something to influence people when they don't hear it

>>71916547

You have no idea how far and fast these guys were pushed in the media. There was a fucking continent-wide media blackout of Blink 182 for a couple of years. I remember in school between 2000-2003 it's the only fucking music that was on MTV, blasting out of 17 year old's new cars, every skateboarder with an external speaker on his hip.

>>71916640
they just marketed themselves the best. slacker culture was tapering off and being replaced by extreme sports culture. punk has always been around, but blink and sum attached themselves to these massive shifts in culture.

you're right, though. there would be no fall out boy, MCR or probably a lot of EDM acts if not for pop punk's insane popularity.

>>71916640
are you that daft?
Blink's songs had just the right amount of cheek to go along with the basic pop punk song structures.

Most bands of that era had either one or the other, good humour or good chord progressions. Blink were the only ones to adequately do both.

>>71916805
Literally this. They were likeable guys, and by all accounts mildly attractive enough for the females. But their humour was obvious, these guys were made for TV and radio. They were stars from day 1.
You're really surprised Blink 182 came out ahead of Newfound Glory?