AVRIL IS NOT PUNK!

So I still find it quite amusing that young people today still consider Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan and other bands to be "punk." From a musical standpoint, people would be really ticked if you called them punk because their sound is totally different. I did find it interesting that Marta pointed out that you can BE a punk if you feel like you are a punk. But I don't think that because you feel you are a punk, it is automatically transferred to your music. You can't play folk as a person who is punk and call your music "punk." I guess going by this definition, Avril Lavigne could be considered punk but her music wouldn't be. She came under fire when she first came out for being punk, probably because people don't actually know what the term means and what it refers to. It makes me laugh when girls would go to hot topic to be "punk" when we were younger (And by that, I mean avril), when a lot of punk people would rather make their own stuff. I think it's become a hazy term unless you are/were a part of that scene or you know anything about music. Regardless, it was summed up during the presentation, now I wish more people would become more aware of the root meanings of the word instead of using it loosely.