‘The Offspring’s ‘Americana’ Rode Resentment And Respectability Politics All The Way To The Top’

Pranav Trewn, writing at Stereogum: But what the Offspring popularized is a far more noxious strain of punk music, and especially punk ideals. The band did not revolt against systems perpetuating economic inequality or authoritarianism, but instead expressed a middle-class teenage resentment that comes from already getting everything you want at home but still being […]

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