What is punk music is all about?Punk music is divided into various sub-genres but I would like to pick hardcore punk as the main topic for this post. Hardcore punk is a blend of the mainstream-ly famous punk rock with a touch of hardcore music. The vocalist of this kind of music usually don't care about how they pronouns the lyrics, their focus are mainly on the meaning of the word. Hardcore punk song regularly bring a very straightforward message, and mainly the message brings hatred,rebellion and various ideology. For instance, punk band Anti Flag in their hit singles titled "Kill The Rich" is full of anti-capitalism and U.K punk band The Exploited's "Anarchy in the U.K" is full of...yes you get the idea.
Listening to this type of music would likely awaken the spirit to rebel and make you wanna bang your head even though you don't even understand what the singer is screaming about. Of course, with a rebellion rhythm like this, we will witnessed a drastic increase in youth problems as they would get easily influenced by the lyrics. Hardcore punk itself divided into two parts that is the Hardcore Punx and Nazi Punk which will led to fight for both sub-genres ideology is totally different. For instant, Dead Kennedys, a hardcore punx shows their hate towards Nazi punk in the song "Nazi Punk F**k Off". It will automatically trigger hatred between the followers of these two sub-genres and led to a bloody fight.
Other than that, hardcore punk are totally against free sex,drugs and alcohol. Hardcore punk followers usually practices an addition ideology called the Straight Edge. This anti-free sex-o-drugs-o-alcohol ideology was established in the late 80's by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat with no intention to publicized it. Their song titled "Straight Edge" is mainly about against free sex,anti-racism and anti-drugs. Inspired by their song, youth at that time practices whatever the band sings in their song. Also, this kind of music make us think a little bit more critical about what happened around us. For example, Anti-Flag's "F**k Police Brutality" condemned the police but some of it are right. This genres are simply good for critical literacy.
Even though I fell in love with hardcore punk, I am well aware that this kind of hard music is made up from both negative and positive effect. Let's rocking with some HARDCORE PUNK!
Even I am exposed to foreign melody, my Penang blood still running vigorously inside me, so the rhythm of Boria is still a part of me. 10 boys dress in the same outfit, singing with repetition, and singing in Penang accent..tell me,what is better than that?