Pop Punk is the NEXT BIG THING for 2021 - Update it's BACK !

It isn't going to happen. Tickets to My Downfall hasn't set the world on fire as it is. "Bloody Valentine" debuted at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 before then dropping 40 positions down to #90 the following week. Even the lead-single off the album, which is more of a pop-punk/Trap hybrid song and features Blackbear as a guest rapper, hasn't done that great on the charts worldwide either. The only country where it has performed quite well is here in Australia. It has been within our Top-40 for over 8 weeks now and it reached a peak of #22, which is it's highest peak on the charts worldwide. 

I have noticed that rock seems to be experiencing something of a resurgence in the mainstream at the moment, what with Machine Gun Kelly's new album, crossover hits like 24KGoldn's "Mood", and Bring Me The Horizon and System of a Down charting high on the iTunes charts. However, I think it's just a short fad rather than it being any legitimate sign of a full-fledged return to the Top-40. 

I don't know.  To me, both songs sound like they could have come out any time between 2006 and 2009 or 2010.  The background synths and the lack of autotune really punctuates that sound, at least to me.  They definitely don't sound late '10s in my opinion.

To add on from what I was saying, it isn't so much to do with pop-punk itself no longer having any appeal, I just feel as though too much time has passed since rock was last significant for it to have any hope of ever making a full-fledged return. I was listening to a 2009 flashback segment on the radio less than an hour ago and it got me thinking; even songs like "Gives You Hell", "Second Chance" and "Waking Up in Vegas" are almost 12 years old. People around my age were the last to have grown up with it and we're now all in our early-mid 20s. The kids and teens of today aren't going to connect with rock music in the same way that previous generations did.

Mid 90s emo needs to come back and readjust the mistake of 2000s emo. 

Can we all admit that most the pop punk music was awful? I feel like the only reason it was popular was because it was everywhere like kids commercials and video games, and people like familiar sounds. Now it's not longer a familiar sound. The music is gonna have to actually be GOOD to make a comeback and not just a rehash.

I liked some of it, but I fully agree that if it's going to make a comeback it's going to need to be good and not a rehash.  I don't see the new Machine Gun Kelly song be any kind of indicator of a pop punk revival.

I'm hoping the 2020s are less nostalgia focused than the 2010s were.

Listen to all of Sum 41's early albums. They are not Blink-182 style at all despite their singles