They weren’t selling out they were buying in.
“People make so much out of something that’s just the band trying to get ahead and get its music to as many fans as possible.” “I’d like to make a lot of money and fuck credibility,” Hoppus said in 1998 to i-Zine. But while they loved conceptual predecessors like the similarly Californian and cheeky Descendents, they were serious about owning a suburban home. In 1992, Mark Hoppus met Tom Delonge through Hoppus’ sister Anne, and they immediately connected through their obsession with punk rock and middle-school humor-two foundational elements for a new pop-punk band. These market conditions had lifted blink-182 to festival superstardom just five years into their recording career.
Sure, Green Day sang more about masturbation than anarchy, but that simply did not matter to all the young kids who, apart from lapping up the music, constituted a new customer base for the record industry to serve. While the concept of pop-punk dates back to ’70s bands like the Buzzcocks and the Undertones, pop-punk didn’t become actual popular music until 1994, when Green Day’s Dookie sold more than 12 million copies and set off a never-ending debate about selling out that persists in DIY spaces today.
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