Need a good ol' dose of rebellious, angry, and somewhat cheesy nostalgic rock music? These four songs were legendary pop punk tunes in the 2000s, and all of them share a rebellious vibe. Let's dive in, shall we?
Remember Mayday Parade? This pop punk outfit made it big with "Jamie All Over" in 2008. The song quickly became the band's most commercially successful hit and was a stellar opener for the band's debut album A Lesson In Romantics. It's catchy, unique in the then-massive pool of pop punk singles, and quite passionate.
Well, we definitely couldn't leave this song off of our list of rebellious pop punk tunes from the 2000s. This is quite literally the anthem of the 2000s' iteration of pop punk, and it's all about rejecting the norm and blazing your own trail. Why be like everyone else when you can just be you? It's not the hardest or toughest rock song on the planet, but plenty of angsty preteens felt understood by Good Charlotte after hearing this track for the first time in 2002.
More on the punk side than the pop side, one can't deny that much of Green Day's album of the same name had notable pop punk elements. Most millennials that can play the guitar learned the riff to "American Idiot" first. The whole of the album is a bona fide punk rock opera, but there's something about the individual song "American Idiot" that is both explosive and relevant today.
This song got a ton of airplay back in 2005, and we think it deserves a spot on this list of rebellious pop punk anthems from the 2000s. "Move Along" by All-American Rejects is certainly rebellious, but its message was also something that lots of young people at the time needed to hear. When you really listen to it, "Move Along" is about believing in yourself and pushing forward despite your problems. Nick Wheeler, who co-wrote the track, said that the song had "an anti-suicide message."
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