When Pop-Punk Ruined Your Favorite Songs

Not gonna lie, I low key miss this series. All Time Low’s “Umbrella”, ADTR’s “Since U Been Gone” and “Cable Car (Over My Head)”, A Static Lullaby’s “Toxic” and a few others were great covers. I even liked Escape The Fate’s “Smooth” cover but that might just be me having bad taste lol. Can’t forget TDWP’s “Still Fly”, that track was just a straightup banger.

I’ve always been a sucker for all “Hot Topic angsty 2000s kid” music though. “Punk Goes Crunk” title always bugged me though lmao.

ADTR since you been gone was a banger though

Punk goes acoustic is good

Lmfao 🤣 I remember seeing these cd 💿 albums and hearing some of these songs. What the hell were they thinking? They weren’t 😂. I was like I’d rather listen to kidz bop than listen to that other crap.

I'm honestly just mad there's about 500 Toxic covers but not a single Slave 4 U one

making juliet simms and andy biersack sing when we were young has got to be one of Punk Goes Pop's greatest crimes.

I loveeee Punk Goes Pop, not all of them are great but it does something for me. Just The away You Are by Pierce the Veil!!! Loved it sooo much

Okay, so what's the stance on
“0ur Last Night" or “Fame on Fire”

It should just be a banned concept. The few standout moments are not worth the musical injustice most cause. The consequences of TDWP’s tolerable cover is Our Last Night

when most people make rock, punk or metal covers they don't seem to have anything in relation to the og song, stop being shy!!! gimme some synths please

I feel like the only punk goes pop cover I like is the cab’s cover of disturbia since the style of the original song works for something heavier like rock also unlike something like the ain’t it fun cover in v4 if I recall it’s using the punk and rock genre to add on to the original not just cover it. Also because the cab is actually a band that can do multiple genres well so it felt natural for doing a cover on a song like disturbia by Rihanna

I don't know how much this applies to "Punk Goes Pop", but someone pointed out that a lot of the YouTube "pop but metal" covers don't do the songs justice because the people making them don't enjoy the songs they're covering.

Similar to a cynical remake of a classic movie, they're just going through the motions. The whole appeal is just there in the title – it's a gimmick. It's just meant to make you giggle and go "that's not what that's supposed to sound like".

I unapologetically enjoy some of those songs. Lol

There is a LOT of garbage in these compilations, don't get me wrong, but there are def more gems than you'd be lead to believe in this vid if you like this sorta sound. Tonight Alive's "Little Lion Man", Mayday Parade's "Somebody That I Used To Know", AFI's "My Michelle" and A Static Lullaby's "Toxic" are big highlights that deserved a mention imo!! We all know the crunk album is garbage, I don't think it's anyone's favourite, but there are gen some cool takes on these songs here!

The Devil Wears Prada were the only band to understand the assignment. Their version remains on my covers playlists.

Also all love and praise to manny fresh for producing the fuck out of the original Still Fly. The arrangement lent itself to a good cover. It's made up of so many great parts. Perfect for translation.

Four year strong and new found glory have both made entire albums like this

They thought umbrella by Rihanna was Crunk? What the hell?

Only Obediah is allowed to cover Hey Ya

I remember the punk goes pop version of payphone by maroon 5, ngl that shit kinda goes

Dr. Demento did a version of this with an album called "Covered in Punk." But, unlike the examples in the video; "Covered in Punk" is quite excellent. The highlight for me is Shonen Knife's cover of "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Eat It." Super fun!